Victory of the Faith (1933) - full transcript

VICTORY OF FAITH

THE FILM OF

THE REICH'S 1933 PARTY CONVENTION

A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT

ARTISTIC DIRECTION BY

PRODUCED BY THE REICH LEADERSHIP

NSD AP FILM DIVISION

DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE NATIONAL

FILM CENTERS OF THE PARTY

THE GERMAN NEWSREELS PLACED

THEIR FOOTAGE AT OUR DISPOSAL

THEY CONTRIBUTED CONSIDERABLY

TO THE SUCCESS OF THIS FILM

FOR THE UNITY OF THE PEOPLE

AND THE STRENGTH OF THE REICH

Markish heathers, markish sand

Are the Markers pleasure

Are his fatherland

Are the Markers pleasure

Are his fatherland

Climb high

Climb high, you deep red eaglet

High over swamp and sand

High over darkest pine tree forests

Hail you, my Brandenburger Land

High over darkest pine tree forests

Hail you, my Brandenburger Land

Through German land

we're marching on

For Adolf Hitler we're fighting on

The red front, break them in two!

SA marches, achtung!

Let them through!

The red front, break them in two!

SA marches, achtung!

Let them through!

So we stand alone in combat

With blood our ranks are all a-sweat

The gaze ahead, the fist is wound!

The streets then

from our march resound

Honorable Chancellor of the Reich...

distinguished guests,

Party members...

the city of Nuremberg

is filled with great joy...

and boundless pride...

to have been given the honor

to host within its walls...

the first national party convention

of the NSD AP...

to be held in the new Reich.

My Fuehrer, our warmest welcome...

to this ancient German city!

On September 2, 1923...

we entered this city

in large numbers for the first time...

then a city still

in the hands of enemies.

It was a time when it was

harder to celebrate than today.

In the name of the millions

who comprise the movement...

of the National Socialist party...

I wish the city of Nuremberg

future happiness and prosperity.

I believe...

that the convention and the movement...

will help increase the fame

of this old German city...

and bring it more clearly into

the consciousness of the world.

To the old German Reich's city

Nuremberg. Heil!

I open...

the fifth party congress

of the NSD AP.

I open the congress of victory!

My Fuehrer...

you, as leader of the party...

are the guarantor of victory.

When others wavered...

you remained steadfast.

When others urged compromise...

you remained firm.

When others lost courage...

you have renewed courage.

When others left us...

you clutched the flag more firmly-

until the flag became

the flag of the nation...

and flew in triumph.

We greet the leader of the nation...

in whom lies the future

of the nation.

Adolf Hitler, we greet thee.

As leader of the National Socialists

in the district of the Franks...

I offer you my warmest welcome.

This is the third time we have gathered

in the capital city of the Franks...

for a National Socialist Party convention.

The great German miracle has occurred.

You, my Fuehrer,

have determined...

that from now on...

all party conventions...

will take place

in the city of Nuremberg.

We Franks understand

how to thank you for this honor.

Just as stalwarts of the Franks...

were for centuries

faithful to their Emperors...

we Franks will now stand...

by the Chancellor of the new Germany

in unfailing allegiance.

The Vice-Secretary

of the Italian Fascist Party...

His Excellency Professor Marpicati...

will address a few words

to the congress.

Above all,

I genuinely thank Rudolf Hess...

Hitler's dynamic representative...

of the National Socialist Party...

for the cordial welcome...

given to the Italian representative

of the Black Shirts.

In the name, and by the charge

of the National Fascist Party...

I bring to Adolf Hitler...

head of the Brown Shirts...

the best wishes of Benito Mussolini,

the Leader of Fascism.

First, a most intense joy...

is that today's grand meeting

in Nuremberg...

is truly a new step...

on the way to the secure triumph...

of the fascist ideal in the world.

I must not make a speech here...

but will join in this declaration:

Heil Hitler!

Heil Mussolini!

We gather together

To ask the Lord's blessing

He chastens and hastens

His will to make known

The wicked oppressing

Now cease from distressing

Sing praises to His Name

He forgets not His own

Lord, not your own

Stand silent!

Dip the flags!

We remember the dead!

Raise the flags!

Raise your heads!

Let the flags wave...

and carry the message

to all German lands.

All that we feel in this hour...

we can sum up in the cry:

Our sacred fatherland...

our one Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler...

a threefold Sieg-

Sieg-

Sieg-

Leaders of the political organization...

many of you look back on a struggle...

that has lasted for years.

Today we see the results of that struggle.

The National Socialist Party

has become the state.

Its leaders...

today are the leaders

of the German Reich...

who must answer to history.

You, my functionaries...

are answerable before God and History...

to ensure that there will never again...

be a November 1918, in German history...

and to accomplish this through

the political education of all Germans...

so that they become one people,

and one expression of a single will.

What we dreamed of for years...

has become reality.

The symbol of the unification

of all classes of the German people...

has become the symbol

of the new Reich...

and thus the standard

of the German people.

The most precious possession

in this world is one's own people.

For this people,

and for the sake of this people...

we must strive and fight...

and never slacken, never tire...

never lose courage, and never-

My Fuehrer!

My Fuehrer!

My Fuehrer!

Here stand...

65,000 Hitler Youth...

from every part of the German Reich.

65,000 Hitler Youth.

Outside this stadium...

there are another 1.5 million...

and at this hour,

they are thinking of you...

and of your great work.

My German Youth!

Just as we are gathered here...

my young comrades...

as part of the life of the people...

so must also be gathered here

the entire people.

It was, alas, not always so.

People did not want

to understand each other.

Each thought only of himself-

at best, of his class alone.

We have been witnesses

to the consequences...

of this failure of spirit.

In your youth...

you must safeguard

what you possess:

The great feeling...

of comradeship

or being part of the group.

If you hold on to this...

no power in the world will be able

to take it from you...

you will be one people

bound together as tightly...

as you are now bound tightly

as German Youth...

our only hope...

the courage and faith

of our people.

You, my Youth...

are indeed the living guarantee...

the living future of Germany.

Not an empty idea...

nor empty formalism...

an insipid plan.

No!

You are the blood of our blood...

flesh of our flesh,

spirit of our spirit...

you are the continuation

of our people.

May Germany live...

and may her future

which lives in you be praised!

Germany, Heil!

The supreme SA leader reports.

100,000 men of the SA...

Stahlhelm and SS...

are ready for review

by the Fuehrer!

Heil SA!

SA-men, SS and ST-men.

Practically to this day...

almost 10 years ago...

the national socialist movement...

in association with other

nationalist groups...

organized the first major review...

of the young German freedom movement...

in Nuremberg.

What a phenomenal evolution

from then until now!

Again it is the Party

that calls you here...

and again you have come...

but not the 10,000 of those days...

but a multitude of German men.

The movement's party convention...

has always meant the great parade

of its men in review...

of men determined and ready...

to defend the principles

of a community of the people...

not only in theory...

but in practice.

It is a community...

without regard to origins...

to social standing...

to profession, to property...

to education-

a community which feels united...

in great faith...

and determination.

Not through position of party...

not through profession

and not through class...

but united for our Germany.

These flags are not merely

an outward sign...

but represent a living obligation.

Hundreds and hundreds

have died for it.

Tens of thousands were injured.

Hundreds of thousands

have lost position and profession.

But the extreme faith of all...

has changed this

from a flag of opposition...

to the flag of the Reich.

And if for 14 years...

the goddess of fortune

turned away from us...

we know that we ourselves

were to blame.

We know...

she will turn her countenance

towards us again...

when we have wiped

away our dishonor.

May heaven be our witness:

The debt has been paid!

The injustices have been avenged!

The shame has been removed!

The men of November have fallen!

Their power is broken!

We want nothing for ourselves...

but everything for our nation.

We want to achieve

nothing for ourselves...

but all for Germany.

We are mortal...

but Germany must live!

The banner high!

The banner high!

Our serried ranks together!

SA men march

With firm and forceful step

Our comrades killed

by the Reds and Reactionaries

Though dead, in spirit

march on with us yet

Our comrades killed

by the Reds and Reactionaries

Though dead, in spirit

march on with us yet