10 Presumably, the poster that Gerta saw was for the rally of 2 August 1929, when factions of the Nazi Party gathered in Nuremberg for what was called the “Day of Composure.” Events like the rallies held in Nuremberg eventually moved to Berlin as well. Spectacles such as these allowed the Nazi Party to show the German populace its power and influence and to declare the inevitability of Hitler’s rise to power (Burden, The Nuremberg Party Rallies, 49).

11 From the end of the Great War until the mid-1930s, the German economy was in shambles. However, it was the Great Crash of October 1929 that dealt the final crushing blow and sent the country reeling (Fischer, Nazi Germany: A New History, 214–15).