A Season of Secrets
“It was a city she would no longer have gone anywhere near, had it not been for the exceptional photographs she could take – photographs that her press agency was always hungry for.
In two days’ time Mussolini and Hitler, who, after an agreement signed in October the previous year, were now in a formal military and political alliance with each other, were to appear together before massed crowds in the Field of May, the setting of the 1936 Olympic Games.
It was a photographic opportunity ...Rozalind had no intention of missing.
Having emerged from the Friedrichstrasse station, she was walking down the street of the same name, with a large bag holding the essential clothing and toilet items she travelled with over one shoulder, her up-to-the-minute Leica over the other shoulder. Friedrichstrasse was a major thoroughfare and, like all Berlin’s major streets, its entire length was hung with immense scarlet banners bearing giant black swastikas on circles of white.MoreLess
In two days’ time Mussolini and Hitler, who, after an agreement signed in October the previous year, were now in a formal military and political alliance with each other, were to appear together before massed crowds in the Field of May, the setting of the 1936 Olympic Games.
It was a photographic opportunity ...Rozalind had no intention of missing.
Having emerged from the Friedrichstrasse station, she was walking down the street of the same name, with a large bag holding the essential clothing and toilet items she travelled with over one shoulder, her up-to-the-minute Leica over the other shoulder. Friedrichstrasse was a major thoroughfare and, like all Berlin’s major streets, its entire length was hung with immense scarlet banners bearing giant black swastikas on circles of white.MoreLess
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