Rally at the Zeppelin Field, during the 6th Nazi Party Congress, Nuremberg, 1934. 6th Hitler rides around the field in an open car to the cheers of attendees. In dramatic scene, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, and Viktor Lutze walk slowly along wide path between sea of rally participants standing silently at attention on both sides of them, as mournful music is played. A large memorial wreath is seen and several large burning flames, on pillars.
Film opens with image of spot-lighted German eagle sculpture against drapery background in the Luitpoldhalle meeting hall at the Nazi party Congress Grounds (Reichsparteitagsgelände) in Nuremberg Germany, during the 6th Party Congress in 1934. Adolf Hitler walks down the central aisle from the rear of the hall. The hall is filled with party members. Seen from the rear, only, Hitler appears to be followed by Rudolf Hess. Behind him are a number of other Nazi officials. Attendees all rise from their seats and render the Nazi salute, as they cheer. Lettering on the drapes at the front of the hall reads "Everything for Germany" (Alles für Deutschland). Hitler steps up, and across the stage, followed by Hess, and others. Closeup of Hitler acknowledging the cheers and salutes of the crowd, with a bent-arm Nazi salute. The party principals lined up on the stage, include, Hitler, and to his right, Rudolf Hess; Baldur von Schirach; and Heinrich Himmler. To Hitler's left, is Julius Streicher. Banner-bearing Sturmabteilung (SA) troops march along the center aisle, while standing attendees hold sustained Nazi salutes. Closeup of Hitler, Hess,von Schirach, and Himmler, rendering full Nazi salutes. Next, a contingent of Schutzstaffel (SS) in black uniforms, repeat the process. View from aloft in the hall, of the parading going on. Closeup of the banner-carrying SS troops, from the floor, where they separate to go to opposite sides of the hall. More SA troops carrying banners.
Events following Sixth Nazi Party Congress meeting in Nuremberg in 1934. A torchlight SA (Sturmabteilung) parade in Nuremberg shows men marching at night. SA Chief of Staff Viktor Lutze addresses his men. (From a U.S. government-edited version of production "Triumph of the Will" with World War 2 period English audio narration and commentary added.)
Events at a meeting of Sixth Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg in 1934. Fuhrer Adolf Hitler stands in his open top car and gives a Nazi salute to his troops. The troops pass in review on street. Hermann Goering stands next to Hitler's car. Various German officers give Nazi salutes. Flag bearers head the troops. Heinrich Himmler heads the SS (Schutzstaffel) troops. Treasurer of NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's Party) stands among other officers. (From a U.S. government-edited version of production "Triumph of the Will" with World War 2 period English audio narration and commentary added.)
6th Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg, in 1934, featuring a "Totenehrung" ceremony, honouring dead. Nazi SA ( Sturmabteilung) and SS (Schutzstaffel) troops in precise formations fill the Zeppelin Field Luitpold Arena, leaving only a wide pathway to the Ehrenhalle war memorial. View from behind honor guard standing at the Ahrenhalle, as Adolf Hitler, flanked by SS leader, Heinrich Himmler (in Black) and Viktor Lutze, head of the Sturmabteilung (SA), approach. Three huge banners with swastikas are seen in the far background. Scene shifts to 1945. American troops are now assembled at the main grandstand (Ehrentribüne) of Zeppelin Field. The American flag covers the wreathed swastika sculpture at the top of the Grandstand. View of German soldiers, who have been mustered out, mingling with civilians in a town. Some speak with an American soldier, who is part of the U.S. occupying force. Scene shifts to the Yalta conference in February, 1945. Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin are seen seated while their most senior military staff members stand in the background. Allied leaders sit around a large conference table. U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, sits near Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Scene shifts back to Nazi era. Joseph Goebbels, Reichminister of Propaganda is speaking and haranguing a crowd. In contrast, German soldiers are seen conversing with occupying American soldiers. This is contrasted with more scenes of Nazi leaders giving impassioned speeches to a hall filled with Nazi faithful. German soldiers, prisoners of war are seen directed by U.S. military police, behind a barbed wire enclosure. Large numbers of German prisoners of war in an open holding area. Closeups of some. Bucolic scenes of farmers working in fields and herds of sheep and cattle. Hitler speaking in a forceful, animated way and haranguing an audience of rapt listeners. German civilians standing quietly in a group. (Narrator refers them being the people of Beethoven, Goethe, and Martin Luther, as statues of those iconic Germans are shown.) In dramatic contrast, numerous dead bodies of victims are being shown to German citizens by American troops, at Nordhausen, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. This is contrasted against views of German people folk dancing in traditional costumes, German contributions to science (view of Albert Einstein speaking) and industry (view of professional glass blowers at work). Glaring contrast shows German civilians moving the body of a concentration camp victim; several civilians being shot dead by a firing squad (unseen); Rudolf Himmler; and an image Germany being destroyed, as result of the Nazis. American soldiers are loosely assembled in an open field. by the Elbe River at Torgau, Germany on 26 April 1945. American and Russian officers greet each other at the site, where their armies have met in World War 2. American and Russian soldiers mingle and greet one another. Views of Allied forces entering Germany. Another scene of victims' bodies stacked at a concentration camp. French soldiers examine stake where prisoners were tied and executed in the Gestapo headquarters on Paris France. Other views of the Gestapo prison, where victims were buried. Examples of torture devices used to coerce information from prisoners. More views of stacked bodies of victims. Germans carrying bodies from a concentration camp. General Dwight Eisenhower and General George Patton visiting the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. Burned remains of victims. Closeup of General Patton. German officials and citizens confronting horror as they are compelled to walk through the camp. A huge wagon loaded with bodies of the dead. German women appalled and repelled by the sights. Countless numbers of dead victims covering a large courtyard. German citizens compelled to carry body of a victim from the yard. Others carrying bodies of victims. Large numbers of German citizens, seemingly shamed and remorseful at the revelations. A group of German men carrying shovels and others carrying crosses to commence burying the victims appropriately. Men carrying victims bodies in open wooden caskets along a road lined with spectators. Coffins of victims laid out in a cemetery. (Narrator alludes to them never forgetting.) German men gently place covered coffins in a long mass grave.
(From a U.S. government-edited version of production "Triumph of the Will" with World War 2 period English audio narration and commentary added): Scenes from closing of Nazi Sixth Party Congress in Nuremberg in 1934. German national party symbol. Fuhrer Adolf Hitler followed by other German officers walks through a long wide expanse with large number of SS (Schutzstaffel) and SA (Sturmabteilung) troops cheering and giving Nazi salute. Rudolf Hess - Deputy to Adolf Hitler, SS Head Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi officers accompany Hitler. Rudolf Hess speaks into a microphone followed by Hitler. Hitler addresses the crowd. He affirms the primacy of the Nazi Party in Germany and declares 'All loyal Germans will become National Socialists. Only the best National Socialists are party comrades.' Crowd cheers for him. Hermann Goering gives a Nazi salute. Rudolf Hess then leads the assembled crowd for a final salute to Hitler thus marking the closing of the Nazi 6th Party Congress.