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Festliches Nrnberg English Festive Nuremberg is a short 1937 propaganda film chronicling the Nazi Party rallies in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936 and 1937. The film was directed by Hans Weidemann.
The film is relatively short at only aboutminutes compared with the longer Triumph des Willens and Der Sieg des Glaubens made by Leni Riefenstahl in 1934 and 1933 respectively. It adopts the same heavy style of adoration of Hitler with many scenes of marching SS men and Wehrmacht soldiers as well as navy personnel and flying aircraft overhead. With some prescience, scenes of soldiers parading in tanks and other vehicles with guns firing assume great prominence. The film concludes with sequences of folk dances and gymnastic displays, followed by a torchlight parade and a brief speech from Hitler.Since the formation of the Nazi Party in 1923, annual rallies had taken place at Nuremberg, mainly orchestrated by the minister for public enlightenment Joseph Goebbels. The Nazi party, as it was known, also called upon architect Albert Speer to create a number of spectacles to inspire the German population. The 8th and 9th of these rallies were known as the Rally of Honor Reichsparteitag der Ehre and the Rally of Labor Reichsparteitag der Arbeit respectively for 1937 and 1938. The rally for 1939 would be ironically known as the Rally for Peace but was postponed indefinitely as war approached in September 1939. ........
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