Nuremberg Rally

Definition

The Nuremberg Rally, or the Reich Party Congress, was an annual event held from 1927 to 1938 in Nürnberg, Germany. Organised on a massive scale by the National Socialist Party (Nazi), these operations in pomp, ceremony, and propaganda were attended by hundreds of thousands of party members. The climax was always a speech by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).

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Timeline

  • 1927 - 1938
    The German Nazi Party uses Nuremberg to host its annual party rallies, the Nuremberg Rally.
  • 1933
    Albert Speer is commissioned to enlarge the complex used each year for the Nazi Nuremberg Rally.
  • 1934
    Leni Riefenstahl directs the film of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, Triumph of the Will.
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