Hermann Goering during the closing speech at the Reichstag session in the Berlin Krolloper on 18 March. 1938. On the left in the government bench: Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Konstantin von Neurath, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Frick, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler, above them Julius Dorpmueller, Hans Frank, Franz Seldte, Hanns Kerrl, Bernhard Rust, Franz Guertner and Walther Funk, in the third row Johannes Popitz, Otto Meissner, Walther von Brauchitsch and Wilhelm Keitel (each from left to right)