Street of Fire: Munich, 1938 

Nighttime Munich is lit with torches and festooned with swastikas in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler’s aborted attempt to use military might to take the government. Once he gained power in the late ’30s, Hitler memorialized the putsch as a milestone on his own path to glory. The 1938 anniversary also witnessed the infamous Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass — a nationwide attack on Jews.

(via Adolf Hitler: Up Close - LIFE)