[maggief]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,567821,00.html

++ Obama Makes His Way to Victory Column ++

7:02 p.m.: Obama leaves his hotel to make his way to the Victory Column, where he to give his speech. Around 100,000 people are reported to be awaiting him there.

[roses of sharon]

By noon hundreds of thousands of workers -- Hitlerites and non-Hitlerites -- were massed on the vast field. The demonstrators observed impeccable order. Hundreds of tables, quickly set up by the Party, provided the ever-increasing throngs with sandwiches, sausages, and mugs of beer at cost, to refresh the new arrivals after their march.