1938 (19 page)

Onkel Adolf with Joseph, Magda, and three younger members of the Goebbels clan.

PALACES

The Führerbau in Munich, completed in 1938. It was to be the scene of the Munich Conference in September.

The old Chancellery in Berlin was pulled down to accommodate Speer’s magnificent new building, which opened its doors at the end of the year.

Hitler’s flat on the second floor of the Prinzregentenplatz in Munich. It is now a police station.

ANSCHLUSS

In Salzburg the Wehrmacht is received with enthusiasm.

Not everyone was so happy: Jews queue for visas outside the Polish consulate in Vienna.

In the former Austrian capital the shops were rapidly “Aryanized.”

OFF TO PALESTINE

Juden Raus (“Jews Out”) was a popular board game. To win, the player had to round up six Jews from their shops and send them to Palestine.

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND THE VIENNESE JEWS

Basil Staunton Batty, Bishop of Fulham, was responsible for the Anglican parishes of northern Europe. He secretly encouraged priests to help Jews.

The Reverend Hugh Grimes, chaplain in Vienna.

The British Embassy chapel in Vienna, where 1,825 Jews converted to Anglicanism in the summer of 1938.

HOMMES FATALS

Herschel Grynszpan, whose attack on the diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7 formed the pretext for the pogrom of November 9—10.

On the left, Blomberg, Minister of War, whose marriage to a former prostitute provoked a national crisis in January. On the right, Fritsch. The army leader was the victim of trumped-up charges of homosexuality.