 Designed
by Nazis, for Nazis, and about Nazis. Triumph of the Will was filmed by
the German Propaganda Ministry in 1934 and directed by Leni
Riefenstahl. The film covers the events of the Sixth Nuremburg Party
Congress. The original intention was to document the early days of
the NSDAP, so as future generations could look back and see how the Third
Reich began. In reality, Triump des Willens shows historians how the Nazi
state drew in the masses through propaganda and also how Adolf Hitler had
a unique and terrifying ability to entice crowds to his beliefs by the
very power of his words. (Summary written by Anthony Hughes [husnock31@hotmail.com] |
