Hermann Goering and Konstantin von Neurath at the 'Day of Potsdam', 1933 (b/w photo)

Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany The Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Goering and Reich Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath at the 'Day of Potsdam' in front of the Nikolai Church. On the exact day 62 years after the first Reichstag session in the Empire, the first Reichstag session after the seizure of power by the Nazis was opened on March 21, 1933. After the Reichstag fire, Potsdam was deliberately selected as the location for the formal constitution because of its tradition in Prussian history. One week earlier, the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels appointed the 'Day of Potsdam' as a symbolic link 'of the old and the new Germany', the conservative sense of tradition and the national socialists' resolution for renewal.