Minute of silence for the victims of war in the German Reichstag, 1941 (b/w photo)

Berlin, Berlin/City State, Germany Before the speech of Adolf Hitler, which will include the declaration of war on the United States, the Reichstag deputies who are on a meeting in the Kroll Opera on 11 December 1941, rise from their seats to a minute of silence to honor the fallen of the war. From right to left on the government benches: Adolf Hitler, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Erich Reader, Walther von Brauchitsch, Wilhelm Keitel, Wilhelm Frick, Joseph Goebbels. In the second row from right to left: Johann Ludwig (Lutz) Graf Schwerin-Krosigk, Walther Funk, Richard Walter Darre, Rust, Kerrl and Frank. Behind right to left: Alfred Rosenberg, Otto Meissner and Johannes Popitz. On the podium of the Reichstag President: Hermann Goering.