Nuremberg rallies

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Luitpoldarena
. In the background is the crescent-shaped Ehrentribüne (the Tribune of Honor).

The Nuremberg rallies (officially Reichsparteitag

Nazi party rally grounds near Nuremberg. [2] The party's 1938 Nuremberg rally celebrated the Anschluss that occurred earlier that year.[2] The 1939 scheduled rally never came to pass and the Nazi regime never held another one as both the government and Nazi Party prioritized Germany's effort in the Second World War
over everything else.

History and purpose

The first Nazi Party rallies took place in 1923 in

Luitpoldhain (converted parkland) was well suited as a venue. In addition, the Nazis could rely on the well-organized local branch of the party in Franconia, then led by Gauleiter Julius Streicher
. The Nuremberg police were sympathetic to the event.

Later, the location was justified by the Nazi Party by putting it into the tradition of the

Autumn equinox
, under the title of Reichsparteitage des deutschen Volkes (The German people's National Party days), which was intended to symbolize the solidarity between the German people and the Nazi Party. This point was further emphasized by the annual growth in the number of participants, which finally reached over half a million from all sections of the party, the army, and the state.

Rallies

Reichsparteitage
Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936 to watch Adolf Hitler speak.

Each rally was given a programmatic title, which related to recent national events:

Propaganda films

Official films for the rallies began in 1927, with the establishment of the

Der Sieg des Glaubens). This movie was taken out of circulation after the Night of the Long Knives, although a copy survived in Britain and has recently been made available on the Internet Archive for public viewing. The rally of 1934 became the setting for the award-winning Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens). Several generals in the Wehrmacht protested over the minimal army presence in the film: Hitler apparently proposed modifying the film to placate the generals, but Riefenstahl refused his suggestion. She did agree to return to the 1935 rally and make a film exclusively about the Wehrmacht, which became Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht
.

The rallies for 1936 and 1937 were covered in Festliches Nürnberg, which was shorter than the others, only 21 minutes.

Books

There were two sets of official or semi-official books covering the rallies. The "red books" were officially published by the NSDAP and contained the proceedings of the "congress" as well as full texts of every speech given in chronological order.

The "blue books" were published initially by Julius Streicher, the Gauleiter of Nuremberg, later by Hanns Kerrl, not by the party press. These were larger scale books that included the text of speeches and proceedings, as well as larger photographs.

In addition to these, collections of Heinrich Hoffman's photographs were published to commemorate each Party congress, as well as pamphlets of Hitler's speeches. Both series of books are much sought after by collectors.[7]

Hoffman created 100-image series on the 1936, 1937, and 1938 rallies in stereoscopic 3D through his Raumbild-Verlag outfit.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-330-48757-3
    .
  2. ^
    JSTOR 2745103
    .
  3. ISSN 2195-1349
    . Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  4. ^ Triumph des Willens (1935)
  5. ^ Propaganda in Nazi Germany
  6. ^ archive.org: page 1139ff.
  7. ^ "The Nuremberg "Parteitag" Rallies". worldfuturefund.org.

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