In September 1937 Headlam was amongst a group of foreign observers at the Nazi Party's annual rally at Nuremberg.Tuesday 7 September 1937 This morning we all attended the first meeting of the Party Conference in an enormous building – a temporary structure – designed to hold, so they told us, about 15,000 people – it was literally packed today. We had excellent seats near the front just below the platform … The proceedings began with music (perhaps the best part of the show: a superb band) – then at last the Nazi swells began to arrive – then came a procession headed by an apparently endless supply of flags – then came Hitler followed by all the other leaders – Goering, Goebbels, Hess, Rosenberg, etc. – great enthusiasm prevailed. They seated themselves on the platform and one had a fine view of them – one was rather terrified at their appearance – they looked capabales de tout and no doubt are. Hitler himself is a bigger man than I thought – by which I mean he is of average size: otherwise, he is exactly like his pictures. A boring beginning was the reading out of the names of all the martyrs of the movement – not so many after all – then came a speech from Hess – another from Sleicher (don't know the man's name: he is the anti-Jew propagandist): then the reading of the Fuhrer proclamation … a reference to the colonial question much applauded.