"The Document of the Reich Party Day 1 934" "Commissioned by order of the Führer" "Directed by Leni Riefenstahl" "On the 5th of September 1 934... 20 years after the outbreak of the World War... 1 6 years after the beginning of Germany's suffering... 1 9 months after the beginning of the German Rebirth..." "Adolf Hitler flew again to Nuremberg to review his faithful followers." "The "old city" ofNuremberg" "Motorcade from the airport to the HotelDeutscherHof" "A bouquet forthe Führer" "Arrivalat the HotelDeutscherHof" "Leibstandarte-SSAdolfHitler (Hitler's SSBodyguardRegiment)" "Bandserenade andnightrally in front ofHitler'shotel" "Hitler Youth andGerman Youth encampment outside the cityofNuremberg" "Marchpast offarmers in traditionalcostume and presentation ofthe harvest to Hitler" "HitlerandDr." "Robert Ley, Reichsleiter andHeadofThe German LaborFront (DAF" " DeutscheArbeitsfront)... reviewranks ofLaborFrontmen" "RudolfHess, Deputy Führer" "ViktorLutz, SA Obergruppenführer andChiefofStaffofthe Storm Troopers (SA" " Sturmabteilungen)... succeeding Ernst Röhm" "Dr.JosefGoebbels, Reich Minister ofpeople EnlightenmentandPropaganda andGauleiterofBerlin" "Baldur Von Schirach, Reichsjudendführer (Reich Youth Leader)" "Congress Hallofthe NSDAP (NationalSocialist German Workers Party)" "RudolfHess, Deputy Führer" "I open the Congress of the Sixth Party Day... in respectful public memory of..." "General Field Marshal and Reich President Von Hindenburg... who has passed into Eternity." "The General Field Marshal is remembered as the first soldier of the Great War." "And thoughts as well to our fallen comrades." "I greet the high representatives of foreign states... who by their presence are participating in this day for their political parties." "In sincere friendship the greeting of the Movement is extended... especially to the representatives of the Armed Forces here, now under the orders of the Führer!" "My Leader:" "Around you stand the flags and standards of this National Socialism." "Only when they are threadbare... will the people be able to understand... by hindsight, the greatness of our time... because ofwhat you, my Leader, mean to Germany!" "You are Germany!" "When you act, the Nation acts." "When you judge, the People judge." "Our thanks is the vow to stand with you... in good days and bad... come whatmay.!" "Reich MinisterDr." "PaulJosefGoebbels" "Thanks to your leadership, Germany will be attainable as the homeland." "Homeland for all Germans in the world." "To us you were the guarantor ofvictory." "To us you are the guarantor of peace!" "Adolf Hitler:" "Hail Victory.!" "Hail Victory.!" "Hail Victory.!" "From the proclamation of the Führer read by Wagner" "Adolf Wagner, GauleiterofMunich-Upper BavariaAdolfBavarian InteriorMinister SA-Obergruppenführer" "No revolution that seems to be permanent... can lead to anything other than complete anarchy." "So the World will not live at war." "So also the people do not live on revolution." "Nothing on this earth that has lasted for thousands ofyears... was assembled in mere decades." "The largest tree also has the longest period of growth." "What braves the centuries... will also be strong through the centuries." "AlfredRosenberg, Reichsleiter andlaterReich Minister forannexedEastern Territories" "It is our unshakeable belief in ourselves... that is our hope for the youth... to carry on the work which has been put before them in the stormyyears... of the revolt of 1 91 8 in Munich... and which is already part of the entire German nation's history." "Dr. Otto Dietrich, Reichsleiter andReich Press Chiefin Ministry ofpeople EnlightenmentandPropaganda" "Truth is the foundation... on which the power of the press stands in the world." "And that it reports the truth about Germany... is the only demand that we place on the foreign press." "DrFritz Todt, Reich GeneralInspector ofHighwaysandConstruction andMinisterofArmamentsandMunitions" "As I speak, work on the Reich Autobahn has begun at 51 locations." "Although this work is in its early stage... today there are already 52,000 men on thejob... and another 1 00,000... engaged in the work of allied industries." "Fritz Reinhardt, State Secretary in the Reich MinistryofFinance andSA Obergruppenführer" "Wherever we look, all around there is building... and new creations... and activity and life... which will continue into the future." "Richard-WaltherDarré, ReichAgriculturalLeader, Headof Central Office ofRace andResettlement" "Maintaining the health of our farmers is the primary foundation... for the prosperity of industry... for German business and for foreign exports." "JuliusStreicher, GauleiterofUpperFranconia andEditorof "Der Stürmer"" "A people that does not protect the purity of its race, goes to seed!" "Dr. Robert Ley, Reichsleiter andHeadofthe German LaborFront (DAF" " Deutsche Arbeitsfront)" "All our work must be dictated by a single thought-- that the German worker... be made an upright, proud and equally entitled national comrade." "Dr. Hans Frank, Reichs MinisterofJustice andlater GovernorGeneralofoccupiedPoland" "As the Leader of the German legal service..." "I can say that, clearly, the basis of the National Socialist State... is the Nationalist Socialist Law Code." "And forus ourhighestleader isalso the highestjudge.!" "We know how sacred the principles of these laws are to our Führer." "These Reich laws can assure you, National Comrades... that your life and existence is safe in this National Socialist State of Order, Freedom and Law." "Dr.JosefGoebbels, Reich Minister ofpeople EnlightenmentandPropaganda, GauleiterofBerlin... andlater GeneralPlenipotentiaryfor Total War" "May the bright flame of our enthusiasm never be extinguished." "It alone gives light and warmth... to the creative art of modern political propaganda." "This comes from the depths of the People... and from these depths of the people... it must always again find its roots and its strength." "It may be good to possess power based on strength... but it is better to win and hold the heart of a People." "Konstantin Hierl, Reichsarbeitsführer, Headofthe German LaborService" "Today, the German people are spiritually and soulfully ready... to undertake their obligation in the general Labor Service." "We have the Führer's orders!" "Reich LaborService Review before Hitler" "Reich LaborService Review before Hitler" "My Leader:" "I wish to present 52,000 RAD men foryour inspection." "Hail, Men of the Labor Service!" "Hail my Führer!" "Shoulder spades!" "Spades at ease!" "Here we stand." "We are ready... to carry Germany into a new era." "Germany.!" "Comrade, where do you come from?" "From Friesenland" "And you, Comrade?" "From Bavaria" "And you?" "From Kaiserstuhl" "And you?" "From Pomerania" "And from Königsberg" "From Silesia" "From the seacoast" "From the Black Forest" "From Dresden" "From the Danube" "From the Rhine" "And from the Saar" "One People!" "One Leader!" "One Reich!" "Germany.!" "Today we work together... in the swamp." "We work in the swamp." "And in the sand." "We dam the North Sea." "We plant trees." "We build roads... from town to town, and city to city." "We provide the farmer with new soil... forests and fields, land and bread... forGermany." "We didn't stand in the trenches." "Nor were we under the shell fire of grenades... and still we are soldiers." "Sharpen the hammers... axes, pickaxes andspades.!" "We are the Reich 'syoungmanhood.!" "As once at Langemarck... at Tannenberg... before Lüttich (Liege)... before Verdun... on the Somme... on the Ähne... in Flanders... in the West... in the East... in the South... on land, on water, and in the clouds." "Comrades, who were shot by the Red Front and Reactionaries..." "You are not dead.!" "You live in Germany.!" "My Labor Service Men." "For the first time you are presented for review in this forum... before me and before the German people." "You represent a great idea... and we know that for millions of our national comrades... physical labor will not longer be a divisive concept." "But it will instead bind us together and, furthermore... no longer will it be the case in Germany... that physical labor will be seen as anything less... than any other work." "The whole nation passes through your school." "The time will come when no German... can be admitted into the community of the people... until he has first become a member ofyour group." "And you know that today you are not only being seen... by the thousands in Nuremberg, but by all of Germany... which also sees you here for the first time today." "And I know thatjust as you serve this Germany proudly... all of Germany today will see its sons marching in you with proud joy!" "ViktorLutze, S.A. ChiefofStaff atSA Night Rally" "Hail Victory!" "Hail Victory!" "Hail Victory!" "Comrades." "Many ofyou here tonight knew me... as an SA man... marching in the rank and file... in the first years of the Movement." "And Party Comrades, just as I was an SA man then... so I am still an SA man today!" "We SA workers will always be true only to the Führer... and fight for the Führer." "Hitler Youth andGerman Youth Rally at the German Stadium" "HitlerandBaldur von Schirach, Reich Youth Leader" "Reich MinisterDr." "PaulJosefGoebbels" "Martin Bormann, Secretary to the Führer andHeadofthe Party Chancellory..." "SS-AdjutantSchaub, Hitler, SA-Adjutant Brückner" "Hitler andDeputy FührerRudolfHess" "Hitlerjugend Marsch (The Hitler Youth March - AdolfHitlerto Thee)" "Baldur Von Schirach, Reichjugendführer (Reich Youth Leader)" "My Leader!" "My Comrades!" "We live again for this hour which makes us proud and happy." "According to your command, my Leader, a youth stands here... a youth that knows neither class nor caste." "The young generation of our people follows afteryou." "Just as you demonstrate the highest self-sacrifice in this Nation... so does this youth wish to be selfless." "Because you embody the concept of fidelity for us... therefore we wish to be faithful." "Adolf Hitler, the Leader of German Youth, attention!" "My German youth." "After one year I can greet you again here." "You standing here today represent something... that is happening all over Germany." "And we want that you, German boys and girls... will absorb everything that we wish for Germany." "We want to be one people... and through you, to become this people." "We want a society with neither castes nor ranks." "And you must not allow these ideas to grow within you." "We want to see one Reich.!" "And you must educate yourselves for this." "We want this people to be obedient... and you must practice obedience in yourselves." "We want this people to be peace-loving... but at the same time to be courageous." "And you must, for that reason, be both peace-loving..." "You must be both peace-loving and strong." "We want this people not to become soft... but to become hard and, therefore... you must steel yourselves for this in youryouth." "You must learn sacrifice... and also never to collapse." "Whatever we create today... whatever we do... will all pass away... but in you Germany will live on." "And when we can no longer hold... the flag that we tore from nothing... you must hold it firmly in your fists!" "And I know that it cannot be any other way... as we bind ourselves together." "Foryou are flesh ofourflesh andbloodfrom ourblood.!" "The same spirit that governs us... burns in youryoung minds." "And when the great columns of the movement... sweep through Germany today... then I know that you will close ranks... and we know that Germany lies in front ofus..." "Germanymarches within us... andGermany followsbehindus.!" "Air Marshal (later Reichsmarschall) Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Hitler... andMinisterofWar General Werner Von Blomberg, reviewunits ofthe Reichswehr" "Ride byofthe 18th CavalryRegiment andmodern armoredcars andgun caissons ofthe Reichswehr" "Night RallyofPoliticalLeaders" "ArchitectAlbertSpeer's "Sea ofFlags"... and "CathedralofLights" on Zeppelin Field." "Ayear ago... we met for the first time on this field;" "the first general review of political leaders... of the National Socialist Party." "200,000 men have assembled here." "They are not here at the summons of their hearts alone... but also at the summons of their loyalty." "It was the great calamity of our people that drove us to the struggle... brought us together... and left us greater." "Those who do not understand... have not experienced the same calamities among their people." "These things appear enigmatic and mysterious... that hundreds of thousands would be led to assemble... amidst calamity and passion." "Others cannot understand... that this is not an order of the State.!" "Theyare deceiving themselves.!" "The State doesnot orderus.!" "We orderthe State.!" "The State didnot create us.!" "Rather we createdourown State.!" "No, the movement lives... and it is grounded hard and fast." "And as long as one of us can draw a breath... he will give his strengths to the movement... just as it was in yesteryear." "Then drum will join drum... flag will join flag... group will join group, Gau to Gau... and after that, this earlier divided people... will follow these sacred columns of the Nation." "It would be an outrage ifwe were to lose... what we have fought for... with so much labor, so much worry... so much sacrifice, and so many privations." "One cannot live faithfully and give up... what has given meaning and purpose to one's entire life." "That would not be so... if it were not a cardinal command." "And no earthly power gave us that command." "Forthe God, ourGod, who created ourpeople, gave us that command.!" "So it is our vow this evening... that each hour, on everyday... to think onlyofGermany ofthe People andReich... andofourGerman nation.!" "To the Germanpeople.!" "Hail Victory.!" "Hail Victory.!" "ReviewofSA andSSandCommemoration ofthe recent death onAugust2, 1934... ofReichspräsidentandGeneral Feldmarshall Paul von Hindenburg" "Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS andChiefofthe German Police, Hitler, and ViktorLutze, Stabchef-SA" "SA, NSKK, andSS Party formations offeran oath offealty toAdolfHitler" "ViktorLutze, Storm Troopers (SA) ChiefofStaff" "My Führer (My Leader):" "Just as we have always done our duty to you in the past... so too in the future, we await your orders alone." "And we, Comrades, know only to obey... the orders of our Führer... and to prove that we have remained true to the Führer." "Our Führer, Adolf Hitler:" "Hail Victory.!" "Hail Victory.!" "SA and SS men:" "A few months ago... a dark shadow cast itself across our Movement." "The SA and other institutions of the Party... had nothing whatsoever to do with this shadow." "They who would believe that a rift has opened in the unity of the Movement... deceive themselves." "Itstands fastas thisblockhere... and nothing in Germany will break it." "And when anyone does harm to the spirit of my SA... then the SA will not be harmed... but those who do this harm... will injure only themselves!" "And only a fool or a known liar... could think... that I would ever disband an organization... that took us so manyyears to build." "My Comrades... we stand fast together for our Germany... and we must stand fast together for this Germany." "And I hand to each ofyou the new insignia... placing them with confidence... in the hands that I see as the most trustworthy there are in Germany." "For in the past you have proven your loyalty to me a thousand times." "In the time to come, it cannot and willnot be any different." "And so I greet you as myold, faithfulSA andSSmen.!" "Hail Victory.!" "Hail.!" "Hail.!" "Hail.!" "Honorgun salute ofthe army to the Partystandards" "Hitlerpresentsnewcolors to the assembledParty formations... touching each newflag to the Blutfahne, the "BloodBanner"... carriedby SS-Standartenführer Jakob Grimminger... thesame man who carriedthis flag during the abortive Munichputsch of1923" "Hitler's grandreview ofallparamilitaryformations ofthe NSDAP... inAdolfHitlerPlatz in front ofthe Frauenkirche (the Church ofOurLady)" "Marchpast ofSA HonorGuardunits ledby ViktorLutze" "Salute ofJuliusStreicher, GauleiterofNuremberg-UpperFranconia" "Parade ofthe "Storm Flags"" "GrandAdmiralEric Raeder" "Hermann Göringin SA uniform" "SA Stabchef(SA-ChiefofStaff) ViktorLutze" "Hermann Göringand..." "RudolfHess take thesalute" "MaxAmann, Reichsleiter in charge ofthe NSDAPpress" "WalterBuch, Reichsleiter andChiefJudge ofthe NSDAP Court" "ViktorLutze, SA ChiefofStaff" "Dr. Robert Ley, Reichsleiter andHeadofthe German LaborFront" "GauleiterofMunich andUpperBavaria andSA-Obergruppenführer Adolf Wagner" "Alpine units ofthe SA Storm Troopers" "GeneralFranzXavier Ritter von Epp, NSDAPReichsleiterand Reichsstatthalter (Governor) ofBavaria" "ReichAirDefense League marchpast" "OldGuardSA Feldherrnhalle Regiment marchpast" "NSKK (NationalSocialist Transportation Corps) marchpast" "Gau StandardBearersmarchpast" "AdolfHitlerPlatz in the old citycenter" "Reichsarbeitsdienst-RAD (Reich LaborService) marchpast" "Seniorarmy, police andpolitical officers, including Lieutenant General (laterGeneralField Marshall)..." "Gerd von Rundstedt, salute the Reich LaborService men in theirmarchpast the Führer" "Konstantin Hierl, Reichsleiter and Reichsarbeitsführer (Reich LaborService Leader" " RAD)" "Reich MinisterDr." "Goebbels" "Bandofthe SS (Schutzstaffel) Elite Guard" "Obergruppenführer-SSJulius Schaub, Hitler'spersonalSS-Adjutant" "Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, leads the marchpast ofthe SS" "Obergruppenführer-SS Sepp Dietrich, CommanderofHitler's personalbodyguard... the Leibstandarte-SSAdolfHitler (SSBodyguardRegimentAdolfHitler)" "Reichsführer-SSHeimlich Himmler salutes the Führer" "WillyLiebel, Lord Mayor (Oberburgermeister) ofNuremberg" "HimmlerandHitlertake thesalute ofthe Leibstandarte-SSAdolfHitler, the Führer'spersonalbodyguardregiment" "FranzXavierSchwarz, Reichsleiter, National Treasurerofthe NSDAP, andSS-Oberst-Gruppenführer" "Hitler Youth boyandfamily watch theparade from an upperstory" "Crowdanticipates the marchpast ofHitler'spersonalbodyguardregiment, the Leibstandarte-SSAdolfHitler" "Bandofthe Leibstandarte-SS AdolfHitler" "Marchpast ofthe Leibstandarte-SS AdolfHitlerto Hitler's favorite march, the BadenweilerMarsch" "Colorguardofthe Leibstandarte-SS AdolfHitler, carrying the Führer's personalstandard" "Army ChiefofStaff General Werner von Blomberg... givesmilitarysalute to the Leibstandarte-SSAdolfHitlerunits" "Theparadestep ofthe "Black Guards, " the Leibstandarte-SSAdolfHitler" "Closing Ceremonies of the Parteitag (PartyDay) weekofevents in the Nuremberg Congress Hall" "SS-StandartenführerJakob Grimminger, carries the Blutfahne (BloodFlag)... into the Congress Hall forthe closing ceremonies" "Deputy FührerRudolfHess at the Podium" "The Führer speaks:" "The Sixth Party Day of the Movement has come to and end." "What appeared like a show of political strength... for millions of Germans outside of our ranks." "For hundreds of thousands of fighters... it was ultimately more." "The great personal and spiritual meeting... of the old fighters and comrades in struggle." "And, perhaps, a cross section ofyou... despite the forced civility of this review of our Party... will return with courageous hearts to the days in which it was difficult to be a National Socialist." "When our Party consisted of only seven members... it already had two principles." "First, it would be a Party with a true ideology." "And second, it would be, uncompromisingly... the one andonlypowerin Germany." "We had to remain in the minority, because we mobilized... the most valuable elements of struggle and sacrifice in the Nation... which have always been not in the majority, but rather in the minority." "And because these are the racially best of the German nation... they can in the proudest self-esteem... claim the leadership of the Reich and the people." "The German people... and subordinated itself to this leadership in ever-growing numbers!" "The German people is happy... in the knowledge that a constantly changing vision... has been replaced by a fixedpole.!" "Whoever feels that he is the carrier of the best blood... and knowingly uses it to attain the leadership... will never relinquish it!" "Ludwig Müller, Reichsbischof (Reich Bishop ofthe United German Evangelist Church)" "There is always a part of the people who stand out as really active fighters... and more is expected from them than from the millions of national comrades in the general population." "For them it is not simply enough to make the pledge: "Ibelieve.!"" "Rather, the affirmation: "Ifight.!"" "For all time to come the Party will be the source of political leadership for the German people." "It will in its teaching... and was ultimately in its organization hard as steel... malleable in its tactics and adaptable in its entirety;" "yet it will be a training school like a holyorder for political leaders." "It must be shown, however, that all upstanding Germans become NationalistSocialists." "Only the best NationalistSocialists, however, are Party Comrades.!" "Once, our enemies worried us and persecuted us and, from time to time... removed the lesser elements from the Movement for us." "Today we must examine ourselves and remove from our midst the elements that have become bad." "Andtherefore, do notbelong with us.!" "It is our wish and will... that this State and this Reich last for thousand years." "We can be happy to know that this future belongs entirely to us.!" "When the olderonesamong us falter... theyouth willstiffen andremain until theirbodies decay." "Only then, ifwe in the Party with our most obedient dedication... become the highest embodiment of National Socialist thought and being... then the Party will materialize... into an eternalandindestructible pillar of the German people and Reich." "Then our glorious and laudable Army... the old, proud, standard bearers of our people... who are equally tradition minded... will champion the Political Leadership and the Party." "And then these two institutions will equally educate the German man... and, therefore, strengthen and carry on their shoulders... the German State, the German Reich.!" "At this hour, tens of thousands of our Party Comrades are already leaving the City." "While many of them relive the meeting in their memories... still others are already planning the next review." "And again the people come and go and they will be engrossed anew and happy... and inspired, for the idea and the Movement live on in our people... and with the Movement are symbol of eternity!" "Longlive the NationalSocialist Movement.!" "Longlive Germany.!" "Deputy FührerRudolfHess at the Podium" "The Party is Hitler.!" "But Hitleris Germany, as Germany is Hitler.!" "Hitler:" "Hail Victory!" "Hail Victory!" ""The Horst WesselSong"" "the NSDAP hymn and unofficial German National Anthem after DeutschlandÜberAlles." "Raise the banner" "The columnsare closedtightly" "The SA marches with apeacefulstrongstep" "Comrades shotby the RedFront andthe Reactionaries" "March in spirit together in ourcolumns" "Comrades shotby the RedFront andthe Reactionaries march in spirit together in ourcolumns"