The Archive · 1938

Holiday in Berlin

Berlin, May 3 City worl who Ha een given a half-day's holiday, lined the streets terday afternoon to cheer their fuehrer as he and his suite prove to the station to entrain for Rome. The two special armoured trains, in which the party travelled, drew out at 4.40 p.m.

In the first train were Herr Hitler, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Paul Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda. Herr Rudolf Hess, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party, and Dr. Hans Frank, Minister without Portfolio.

The second train carried leading officials of the Foreign Office, leading members of the Party and Army and Police chiefs, Field Marshal Hermann W. Go ing, Prussian Premier and Minister fór Air, who will represent Herr Hitler during his absence, addressed the Chancellor on the station platform.

r meeting with Signor. Mus-he said, "will once again manifest the strength of the Rome Berlin axis.

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