Triumph of the Will is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts of speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) troops and public reaction. Its overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power with Hitler as its leader. The film was produced after the Night of the Long Knives, and many formerly prominent SA members are absent.
German theatrical poster
Hitler congratulates Riefenstahl in 1934.
Riefenstahl and her film crew in front of Hitler's car during a parade in Nuremberg
Julius Streicher in custody in 1945
Propaganda in Nazi Germany
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policies.
Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi Germany's Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
A 1937 anti-Bolshevik Nazi propaganda poster. The translated caption reads: "Bolshevism without a mask – large anti-Bolshevik exhibition of the NSDAP Gauleitung Berlin from 6 November to 19 December 1937 in the Reichstag building".
Propaganda recruiting poster of the 27th SS Volunteer Division "Langemarck" with the title "Flemings all in the SS Langemarck!"
German soldiers removing Polish government insignia in Gdynia soon after the invasion of Poland in 1939
