The Weimar Rally

3rd-4th July 1926

After the official ban on the Nazi Party (NSDAP) was lifted in February 1925, Hitler regained permission to speak in public in Bavaria and Thuringia.
The ban on the publishing of the Völkisher Beobachter was also lifted.
Prussia, the largest German state maintained the most aggressive stance against the Nazis and banned Hitler from public speaking until September 1928.

Hitler immediately refounded the party at the Bürgerbräukeller—the very same beer hall where the failed coup had started.
He gave a highly aggressive and incendiary 'comeback' speech on February 27th, 1925, which alarmed the Bavarian government who then imposed a two-year public speaking ban that lasted until 1927.
Thuringia was more lenient which enabled Hitler to hold the second Nazi Party Congress in Weimar.

Hitler arriving at the 1926 party congress in Weimar

Hitler with Rudolf Hess walking to one of the meeting locations in Weimar

Hitler reviews a march past by members of the SA which in 1926 included the first public display of the SS (initially a sub-division of the SA)

The Berliner Tageblatt newspaper reported that "respected citizens had been molested by the Nazis who appeared to consist of unemployed workers whose appearance was without dignity."
Other reports detailed that "they were noisy from morning to night in the streets and restaurants and terrorised the city".

However, reports of the rally in the Völkisher Beobachter credited all participants with 'model behaviour' and warned against believing the 'Jewish-controlled press'.