Nazi propaganda postcard showing a crowd of saluting Germans superimposed on an enlarged image of Adolf Hitler with a member of the SA (Sturmabteilung, often called Stormtroopers) who holds a swastika flag. Created in Munich, Germany, ca. 1932.
Item View![A Maypole topped with a swastika is raised for a May Day parade in the Lustgarten in Berlin. [LCID: 83796]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0252940e-3b37-4d7b-be1b-7b4799331b39.jpg "A Maypole topped with a swastika is raised for a May Day parade in the Lustgarten in Berlin. [LCID: 83796]")
A Maypole topped with a swastika is raised for a May Day parade in the Lustgarten in Berlin. The May holiday became an important celebration in the Nazi calendar. Germany, April 26, 1939.
Item View![German troops marching into the Sudetenland stop at a former Czech frontier post. [LCID: 74910]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8e3443b4-e84d-480c-8669-cea3b2d755ed.jpg "German troops marching into the Sudetenland stop at a former Czech frontier post. [LCID: 74910]")
German troops marching into the Sudetenland stop at a former Czech frontier post. Nazi officials and Sudeten Germans salute the troops. The sign between the swastika banners reads: "One People, One Reich, One Führer." Grottau, Czechoslovakia, October 2 or 3, 1938.
Item View![A streetcar decorated with swastikas passes billboards displaying Hitler's face. [LCID: 70073]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/7fbfc4d3-96e0-42be-aa7d-fae7897b92e6.jpg "A streetcar decorated with swastikas passes billboards displaying Hitler's face. [LCID: 70073]")
A streetcar decorated with swastikas passes billboards displaying Hitler's face. The billboards urge Austrians to vote "Ja" (Yes) in the upcoming plebiscite on the German annexation of Austria. Vienna, Austria, April 1938.
Item View![German spectators at a Nazi rally stand alongside a monument decorated with Nazi flags and a swastika emblem in Berlin. [LCID: 64450]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/254cee4d-e822-463f-af94-bcb3d5dcbe08.jpg "German spectators at a Nazi rally stand alongside a monument decorated with Nazi flags and a swastika emblem in Berlin. [LCID: 64450]")
German spectators at a Nazi rally stand alongside a monument decorated with Nazi flags and a swastika emblem in Berlin. Germany, 1937.
Item View![German (swastika) and Olympic flags bedeck Berlin during the Olympic Games. [LCID: 77805]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/803578b7-650d-4488-81d9-8bd87b3d5d5c.jpg "German (swastika) and Olympic flags bedeck Berlin during the Olympic Games. [LCID: 77805]")
German (swastika) and Olympic flags fly in Berlin during the Olympic Games. Berlin, Germany, August 1936.
Item View![A street scene showing displays of the Olympic and German (swastika) flags in Berlin, site of the summer Olympic Games. [LCID: 76499]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ed96600b-c637-45bb-9d33-6aa7a0795621.jpg "A street scene showing displays of the Olympic and German (swastika) flags in Berlin, site of the summer Olympic Games. [LCID: 76499]")
A street scene showing displays of the Olympic and German (swastika) flags in Berlin, site of the summer Olympic Games. Berlin, Germany, August 1936.
Item View![Group portrait of German girls posing outside their school in front of a Nazi flag. [LCID: 97273]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/41c8005f-37c0-4e5b-8577-891aec44e8d5.jpg "Group portrait of German girls posing outside their school in front of a Nazi flag. [LCID: 97273]")
Group portrait of German girls posing outside their school in front of a Nazi swastika flag. Among those pictured is Lilli Eckstein six months before she was expelled from the school for being Jewish. Heldenbergen, Germany, 1935.
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At a rally, members of the Hitler Youth parade in the formation of a swastika to honor the Unknown Soldier. Germany, August 27, 1933.
Item View![Insignia of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Infantry Division gained its nickname, "Thunderbird" division, from the gold thunderbird. [LCID: n05638]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/db5e4034-5212-451f-943b-bfa049eb7f06.jpg "Insignia of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Infantry Division gained its nickname, \"Thunderbird\" division, from the gold thunderbird. [LCID: n05638]")
Insignia of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Infantry Division gained its nickname, "Thunderbird" division, from the gold thunderbird. This Native American symbol became the division's insignia in 1939. It replaced another previously used Native American symbol, a swastika, that was withdrawn when it became closely associated with the Nazi Party.
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