The first nationwide party convention took place in Munich in January , but the location was shifted to Nuremberg that September. The rallies became a national event following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in , and were thereafter held annually. Once the Nazi dictatorship was firmly established , party propagandists began filming the rallies for a national, and international, audience. The planned rally was cancelled due to Germany's invasion of Poland.
Scheduled to begin on 2 September, this rally was ironically called the Reichsparteitag des Friedens , or "Rally of Peace. The rallies were not a "decision-making body," and Hitler did not allow their " parliamentarization. From onward, party rallies took place exclusively in Nuremberg. Hitler chose architect Albert Speer to improve the rally complex and, in the summer of , Speer "reshaped Nuremberg" to make it "suitable for hosting what was now the party in power.
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Undoubtedly it was influenced by the Pergamum altar. Spotlights focused on the "place where Hitler entered the arena," and music played from "multiple bands, orchestras, and loudspeakers" as he approached the podium. During a special Reichstag meeting at the Nuremberg rally, the German government enacted the Nuremberg Laws , stripping German Jews of their citizenship, [ 13 ] making the swastika banner the official national flag, [ 14 ] and banning "marriage and sexual relationships between Jews and non-Jews.
The Nuremberg Laws were based not on religion, but on race, and were grounded on the idea that "racial identity" was "transmitted irrevocably through the blood" of Jewish ancestors. The rally of became the setting for Riefenstahl's award-winning Triumph of the Will Triumph des Willens. There were two sets of official, or semi-official, books covering the rallies. The so-called "Red books" were officially published by the Nazi Party and contained the proceedings of each rally, along with the full text of speeches.
The "Blue books" were published initially by Julius Streicher , the Gauleiter of Nuremberg , and later by Hanns Kerrl , not by the party press. Alongside these books, collections of photos by Hitler's official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman , were published to commemorate each Party congress, as well as pamphlets of Hitler's speeches. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.
