An athlete salutes Hitler at a ceremony to demonstrate loyaty to the Saar district at the Ehrenbreitstein fortress in Koblenz.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 70439

Overview

Caption: An athlete salutes Hitler at a ceremony to demonstrate loyaty to the Saar district at the Ehrenbreitstein fortress in Koblenz.

Reich sports leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten (right) is about to present the athlete's message of loyalty to Hitler.
Date: 1934 August 26
Locale: Koblenz, [Rhineland-Palatinate] Germany
Variant Locale: Coblenz
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Event History: About 170,000 athletes took part in the "loyalty relay race," which commenced from ten different frontier points and finished in Koblenz.

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Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 306-NT-888-C-1

Keyword: ANNEXATION ANNEXATION (SAAR) CLOSE-UPS GERMANS HEADS OF STATE HITLER, ADOLF NAZI OFFICIALS OATHS/SWEARING IN SALUTING SPORTS/TEAMS/ATHLETES TSCHAMMER UND OSTEN, HANS VON
Photo Designation: NAZISM - GERMANY (1933-1945) -- Territorial Expansion/Annexation -- Saarland