Hitler, Goebbels and Magda Goebbels (identifiable from her big hat !) at a prewar reception, occasion and location unknown.  I wonder to whom it is that they are listening so intently.  The Fuhrer exhibits serious concentration and Goebbels seems to be receiving a revelation.  Can't help thinking that Magda looks a bit bored ... 

Magda, of course, was one of the few women who was highly respected by Hitler; she returned fanatical devotion to her Fuhrer.  When Goebbels indulged in a particularly intense extramarital affair (with Czechoslovak actress Lidá Baarova, Hitler intervened personally to sort out the mess and save Magda's marriage, at the expense of some disruption in the Propaganda Ministry and some behind-the-scenes humiliation for Goebbels.  Best regards, JR.

Pleasures of the Table ...

Leni Riefenstahl views the perspectives from beside one of the giant Reich eagles atop the tribune at the Luitpold Arena, Nuremburg, in preparation for her filming of the 1934 National Socialist Party Congress (set designer A. Speer) that resulted in her landmark "documentary", Triumph of the Will" (executive producer A. Hitler).  Best regards, JR.

Checking the angles.

Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich and Karl Wolff together at a ceremony, location and date unknown (Prague ?).  Hitler was SS membership #1, and the ultimate authority for all SS actions.  Himmler was Reichfuhrer-SS; all SS personnel were responsible to him, and he was responsible to Hitler alone in relation to SS actions.  Wolff was longtime head of the SS personnel service, and effective controller of SS administration generally.  From 1943, he served as Supreme SS and Police Leader in Italy.  Heydrich, well, was Heydrich, "Hitler's Hangman" according to one recent biographer, creator and chief of the German secret police and security services up to the time of his assassination in Prague.  Following an attack by British-trained Czechoslovak commandos in Prague on 27 May, 1942, he died of his wounds on 4 June, 1942.  Best regards, JR.