The 1933 Nuremberg Rally

The Rally of Victory (30th August–3rd September)

The theme was to celebrated the Nazi rise to power and the destruction of the Weimar Republic.

The 1933 rally represented a watershed - the Nazi Party was no longer one of many; party and state had become one and the rallies became an official state occasion.
As of 1933, access to financial and human resources enabled a significant professionalisation in the planning of the rallies.
New groups of participants extended the scope of the event.

The 1933 film.......The Victory of Faith.......was the last time that Hitler appeared alongside Ernst Röhn (who was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives at the end of June 1934).

All copies of the film were ordered to be destroyed but one low-res and one standard film were discovered.
The quality of these have subsequently been enhanced.

From 1933 onwards, the rallies took place in a greater number of different Nuremberg locations which were extensively (and expensively) developed over the years.

The Hauptmarkt in front of the Frauenkirche was renamed - Adolf Hitler Platz.

These were the rallies where the choreographing of hundreds of thousands of participants into disciplined spectacles of power projected absolute national unity to the world, intimidated foreign observers and provide a legitimate stage for radical policy shifts.

1933 to 1938 are the events that people visualise when they think of the "Nuremberg Rallies".

However, discipline (especially in the earlier rallies) could still be a problem, drunken Party leaders, unabashed public urination and sexual excesses are recorded in many police records.

The translated cartoon from 1933

Private photographs were actively discouraged but this image was taken at the Zeppelin Field in 1933.

"The parade ground of the 100,000 was an absolute dump. Cigarette packets, chocolate bar wrappers, broken bottles, rags etc
Piles of rubbish were swept together and ceremoniously burned" - Charlotte, 19 years old from Nuremberg.