WWII – Nuremberg Rallies – photographs – Karl Kolb an outstanding series of approx 90 bw photographs, mostly by Karl Kolb one of the finest photographers during the Third Reich Period, with some by Kurt Grimm, showing scenes during the Nuremberg Rallies from 1934-1937. Each mounted on card leaves, most approx 9x7ins. A truly outstanding record of the Rallies – many showing Hitler in various ceremonial roles, but also showing the parades of tanks, artillery firing, soldiers (one showing an SS Officer from the ‘Death’s Head’ brigade etc, as well as shots of the Hindenburg airship when it made its famous appearance over the 1936 rally. The photographs also show the leisure activities which took place – an aspect of which was never covered in the most memorable record of these events, the Leni Reifenstahl film ‘Triumph of the Will’. These images are believed to be unpublished. Many carry Kolb’s annotations to verso and some are signed by him. Kolb was one of the most important photographers of the Third Reich and was also Museum Director at the House of German Art – he, along with Hitler and the other celebrated photographer Heinrich Hoffman, was responsible for staging the notorious ‘Great German Art Exhibition’ in 1937 which was staged to exemplify the Ayrian ideals in art and was specifically organised alongside a tandem exhibition dubbed ‘Degenerate Art’. Needless to say, Kolb’s exhibition featured works which have been largely forgotten, but the ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition featured works by Chagall, Max Ernst, Kokoschka, Mondrian and Otto Dix. However, Kolb’s photographic eye cannot be denied and these photographs create a remarkable atmosphere of what being at the rallies must have been like.