Der Sieg des Glaubens

Der Sieg des Glaubens English The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith 1933 is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg fromAugust toSeptember 1933. The film is of great historic interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rhm on close and intimate terms, before Rhm was shot on the orders of Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives onJuly 1934. All known copies of the film were destroyed on Hitlers orders, and it was considered lost until a copy turned up in the 1990s in the United Kingdom.

Like her Nazi propaganda films of 1935, the short Tag der Freiheit Unsere Wehrmacht Day of Freedom Our Armed Forces and the classic propaganda feature Triumph of the Will, Der Sieg des Glaubens documents a Nazi Party rally, the Fifth NSDAP Congress, in a straight chronological format. It has no voiceover or commentary. The activities captured include the welcoming of foreign diplomats and other party members and politicians such as Franz von Papen at the Nuremberg train station Adolf Hitlers arrival at the airport and his meeting with important party members such as Josef Goebbles and Hermann Gring massive Sturmabteilung SA, colloquially known as Brownshirts parades and Hitlers speech on the assumption of power by the party, and the tenth anniversary of the German National Socialist movement.The events shown are in roughly chronological order, starting with the arrival of Hitler in Nuremberg and the welcome given by the Nuremberg Gauleiter, Julius Streicher. Rudolf Hess is shown sitting next to Hitler, and the Fuhrer passes him a bunch of flowers given to him by admirers. Hitler is also shown in several cameos with Ernst Rhm, leader of the SA, whom Hitler would later order murdered in the Night of the Long Knives 1934. The welcome includes a speech from a senior official of the Italian National Fascist Party, Arturo Marpicati, with conveyed greetings from Benito Mussolini. It is followed by the rally on the vast parade ground recently built by Albert Speer, and includes a shot of a Zeppelin airship floating by, complete with swastika on the tailfin. There is also a separate rally of Hitler Youth, with an introduction by Baldur von Schirach. There follows a march past in the streets of the old city, with the party leaders receiving the salutes of the massed goosestepping ranks of the SA and the SS. Familiar faces include Hermann Gring and a brief cameo appearance of Heinrich Himmler, who would be the star of Riefenstahls next propaganda film, The Triumph of the Wi

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