# Canonical recap data for Nuremberg Rally & Nazi Mass Festival (1933)
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slug: nuremberg-rally-1933
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1933/nuremberg-rally-1933"
title: Nuremberg Rally & Nazi Mass Festival
aliases:
- Reichsparteitag
- Reich Party Congress
- NSDAP Nuremberg Rally
subtitle: The 1933 Nazi Party rally established the spectacle-driven mass festival as a propaganda tool that prefigured totalitarian state control.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1933-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1933
decade: 1930
country:
name: Germany
slug: germany
summaryShort: The Nuremberg rallies, meaning 'Reich Party Congress') were a series of celebratory events coordinated by the Nazi Party and held in the German city of Nuremberg from 1923 to 1938. The first nationwide party convention took place in Munich in January 1923, but the location was shifted to Nuremberg that September. The r
summaryLong: The Nuremberg rallies, meaning 'Reich Party Congress') were a series of celebratory events coordinated by the Nazi Party and held in the German city of Nuremberg from 1923 to 1938. The first nationwide party convention took place in Munich in January 1923, but the location was shifted to Nuremberg that September. The rallies usually occurred in late August or September, lasting several days to a week. They played a central role in Nazi propaganda, using mass parades, "military rituals", speeches, concerts, and varied stagecraft methods to project the image of a strong and united Germany under Nazi leadership.
lede: The 1933 Nuremberg Rally was the Nazi Party's first mass gathering in the Bavarian city after Adolf Hitler's rise to power in January. Held in September, the event showcased the regime's organizational apparatus and nationalist ideology to hundreds of thousands of attendees, establishing a template for annual spectacles that would continue through 1938.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Reichsparteitag_NSDAP_N%C3%BCrnberg_1934-09_Hitler_Himmler_Lutze_Luitpold_Arena_Blutfahne_SS_The_New_York_Times_G.m.b.H._Bild-Dienst_Nazi_Party_Rally_Narodowe_Archiwum_Cyfrowe_3_1_0_17_12272_33882_Public_domain.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Nuremberg rallies"
importance: 82
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts:
- label: Attendance
  value: Approximately 200,000 participants
- label: Location
  value: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
- label: Date
  value: September 1–3, 1933
- label: Time since Hitler's appointment
  value: 7 months after January 30, 1933 chancellorship
- label: Rally duration
  value: 3 days
- label: Subsequent annual rallies
  value: Held every year through 1938
timeline:
- date: 1933-01-30
  title: Hitler appointed Chancellor
  description: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany following backroom negotiations. The 1933 Nuremberg Rally would be the first major party gathering under his consolidated power.
- date: 1933-06-30
  title: Night of the Long Knives
  description: SA leadership purged; Ernst Röhm and other rivals executed. Hitler solidifies control of the party apparatus ahead of the September rally.
- date: 1933-09-01
  title: Nuremberg Rally opens
  description: The 1933 Reich Party Congress begins with mass gatherings, military displays, and speeches showcasing Nazi organizational power and nationalist fervor.
- date: 1933-09-03
  title: Rally concludes
  description: The three-day spectacle ends after Hitler's closing address. Attendance reaches approximately 200,000, establishing the Nuremberg Rally as an annual fixture.
- date: 1934-09-01
  title: Second Nuremberg Rally
  description: The 1934 rally, documented by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, becomes even larger and more elaborate, cementing the event's role in Nazi propaganda.
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_rallies"
  title: Nuremberg Rally
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
impactStatement: The 1933 rally demonstrated the Nazi regime's capacity to mobilize and theatricalize mass politics at unprecedented scale. It signaled the consolidation of Hitler's authority after the purge of the SA in June and established Nuremberg as the symbolic center of Nazi ceremonial power for the remainder of the decade.
categories:
- festival
- protest
metaDescription: "The 1933 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg: Hitler's first mass spectacle after seizing power."
wikidataQid: Q160225
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260621185434/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_rallies"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-21
  label: Nuremberg Rally
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_rallies"
