Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will German Triumph des Willens is a 1935 German propaganda film directed, produced, edited, and cowritten by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, and Julius Streicher, interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel troops and public reaction. Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer his name appears in the opening titles. The films overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the leader who will bring glory to the nation. Because the film was made after the 1934 Night of the Long Knives on Junemany prominent Sturmabteilung SA members are absentthey were murdered in that Party purge, organized and orchestrated by Hitler to replace the SA with the Schutzstaffeln SS as his main paramilitary force.
The film begins with a prologue, the only commentary in the film. It consists of the following text, shown sequentially, against a grey background
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