Please excuse the World War II reference, especially here in a stadium that is adjacent to the "Rally Grounds" where Adolf Hitler held the annual "Reichsparteitag" Nazi rallies from 1923 to 1938. The enormous yet incomplete Kongreßhalle, which was to house the party's congress.

American fans are out in force, walking around a picturesque little lake around which the relics of the past fan out over an area of almost two square miles.

Photos to come.