The female winner of the 80 meters hurdles at the Berlin Olympic games, Ondina Valla, in an effective propaganda photo of Leni Riefenstahl. DVX

Aryan champion (?)

Riverine Port of Rotterdam from the air, shortly before the outbreak of war, 1938-'39.  The tiny "old port" - the "dead end" towards the middle-right of the photo, miraculously survived the infamous cock-up that was the German bombing of 1940, and subsequent Allied artillery bombardment in 1945 (I have had lunch there - it has hardly changed).  Everything visible around - and much, much more, was burned to the ground (and I mean to the ground) by the German bombing and its consequences, which (unintentionally) involved setting fire to the warehouses clustered around the Old Port, many of which were crammed to the roof with flammable materials such as fabrics and cooking oils and fats.  The resulting conflagration, which took fire brigades from all over the Netherlands and much of western Germany, took several days, by which time most of the city centre had been destroyed.  Postwar, the area was rebuilt in a variety of "modern" (generally brutalist) styles.  Very, very sad.  Best regards, JR.

Rotterdam - not yet anywhere at all ...

Members of the Port of London Authority Police, in life jackets, doing a drill, practicing ... er ... jumping off a pier into a dock basin, 1930s.  Being competent at doing this would, no doubt, be very useful in the event of a bad fire breaking out - or in the event of a bombing raid ... JR. 