Hermann Goering (as President of the Reichstag, standing) at the opening of the Reichstag session on the declaration of war against Poland on 01.09.1939. Left below in the government benches Konstantin von Neurath, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Frick, Erich Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler, behind Hanns Kerrl, Bernhard Rust, Walther Darre, Franz Guertner, Walther Funk and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, in the third row Johannes Popitz, Otto Meissner, Wilhelm Keitel, Walther von Brauchitsch, Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Wilhelm Ohnesorge. Around the lectern Julius Schaub, Hans Lammers, Otto Dietrich and Wilhelm Bruckner (each from left to right).