Berlin Zoo's orientalist-fantastic Elephant House in happier days, 1937.  It was destroyed, along with its residents, by a heavy bomb in the course of an Allied air raid in 1943.  Best regards, JR.

Berlin Zoo Elephant House, 1937.

Sir Oswald Mosley addresses a rally of his Blackshirt legions.  In spite of its capacity for troublemaking, the Blackshirt movement continued, under Great Britain's liberal legal system, to prosper (albeit under a range of names) right up to the beginning of the war.  This rally took place at Earl's Court, London, in July, 1939.  On the war's outbreak, the leaders of the movement - including the Mosleys - were detained.  However, a significant number of former Blackshirts, along with a number of upper class Nazi fellow-travelers, attempted to communicate with Germany and supply confidential information.  The British intelligence services were largely successful in neutralizing their efforts, with little fuss.  Best regards, JR.

Enemy Within.

A young woman talking with Adolf Hitler possibly in a party 1938