Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg
Creator(s)
- Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
- Julien H. Bryan (Camera Operator)
Biographical History
Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. His footage appeared in March of Time theatrical newsreels. His photographs appeared in Life Magazine. He was in Warsaw in September 1939 when Germany invaded and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe.
Scope and Content
In Adolf Hitler Platz in Nuremberg, Germans salute/heil en masse for the Party Congress, soldiers marching in BG are barely seen, VAR shots of spectators heiling. LS, parade with flags. View of spectators in windows (some flanked with Nazi flags and flower boxes). Closer shots of parade with swastika flags, drummers, crowd saluting. Hitler arrives, salutes crowd from middle of square. More goose-stepping. Close shots of Nazi elites in uniform. In crowd, brown shirt purchases hot dog and bun from a female vendor. More LSs of Nazi elite, including Goering, Goebbels, Hess, and others standing in middle of Nuremberg's square. Movie cameras set atop automobiles. More soldiers parading, BDM walking in FG across square, crowd saluting, BDM handing out paper bags of food to official guests (seated). 01:07:09 EXT, clock tower figurines (the 7 prince electors saluting Emperor Charles V in the middle) turn at noon. Seen from rear, crowd salutes in stadium stands at the Nazi Party Rally; pan down to bookstore built in the stands. Swastika prominently displayed on church. Men salute from the stands. Men gather in front of book store to see poster advertising Bavarian clergy, including Bishop Faulhaber. In city square, swastika prominently displayed on church, crowd salutes, soldiers marching, more shots of Germans saluting. 01:09:07 Airplanes in review at Nazi Party Congress, land demonstration, cannons, etc. Crowd looks up at planes, salutes, land review, fighting, crowd. 01:10:04 Nazis with foreign diplomats/representatives (possibly Spanish & Italian fascists), VAR CUs. Marching band and soldiers parade out of tent camp where the 20,000 men camp while they march at Nuremberg, preparing food for military in tent camp, soldiers receive portions of beef in canteen.
Note(s)
Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- GOEBBELS, JOSEPH
- SWASTIKAS
- RALLIES (NAZI)
- PARADES
- FOOD
- LUFTWAFFE (GERMAN AIR FORCE)
- MILITARY EXERCISES
- HESS, RUDOLF
- BANDS
- HITLER, ADOLF
- NUREMBERG RALLIES
- GOERING, HERMANN
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
Genre
- Outtakes.
- Film