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The Totenehrung, or "Honoring of the Dead," at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. Adolf Hitler , Heinrich Himmler , and SA leader Viktor Lutze stand in front of the Ehrenhalle , or "Hall of Honor." The Nuremberg rallies (officially Reichsparteitag ⓘ , meaning Reich Party Congress ) were a series of celebratory events coordinated by the Nazi Party and ...
In 1937, after marrying Obersturmführer Wolf Bürkner, [16] she became pregnant and resigned her duties. [15] Jutta Rüdiger (1910–2001) was a special case. [17] She joined the BDM only in 1933, at the age of 23 and after having finished her doctorate in psychology.
The Nazi party rally grounds (German: Reichsparteitagsgelände, lit. ' Reich Party Congress Grounds ' ) covered about 11 square kilometres (1,100 ha) in the southeast of Nuremberg , Germany. Six Nazi party rallies were held there between 1933 and 1938.
The Cathedral of Light or Lichtdom was a main aesthetic feature of the Nazi Party rallies in Nuremberg from 1934 to 1938. Designed by architect Albert Speer , it consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights , at intervals of 12 metres, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience.
The events that are inseparably linked with Nuremberg ("city of the party rally" — Stadt der Reichsparteitage) and the National Socialist period were also explained: the activities of Julius Streicher, editor of the anti-Semitic rabble-rousing weekly Der Stürmer (The Storm Trooper), the history of the Nuremberg Rally, the proclamation of the ...
Braun was a member of Hoffmann's staff when she attended the Nuremberg Rally for the first time in 1935. Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal (Geli's mother), took exception to her presence there and was later dismissed from her position as housekeeper at the Berghof. Researchers are unable to ascertain if her dislike for Braun was the only ...
Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer visiting a test construction site near Nuremberg The party rally grounds in the year 1940, the Deutsches Stadion in the centre, left.. According to Speer himself, it was inspired not by the Circus Maximus in Rome but by the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, which had impressed him greatly when he had visited it in 1935. [1]
A Symphony of the Will to Fight (German: Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens) is the first film documentary of a Nuremberg Rally. [1]Made soon after the establishment of the Nazi Party film office, the film is a short record of the highlights of the conference, interspersed with newspaper descriptions of the rally.