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Triumph of the Will -- Illustrated Screenplay TRIUMPH OF THE WILL -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY directed by Leni Riefenstahl © 1993 Asian Historic Films, Ltd. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO READ THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE AT THIS LINK BEFORE YOU READ THE FOLLOWING WORK, THAT IS AVAILABLE SOLELY FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP OR RESEARCH PURSUANT TO 17 U.S.C. SECTION 107 AND 108. IN THE EVENT THAT THE LIBRARY DETERMINES THAT UNLAWFUL COPYING OF THIS WORK HAS OCCURRED, THE LIBRARY HAS THE RIGHT TO BLOCK THE I.P. ADDRESS AT WHICH THE UNLAWFUL COPYING APPEARED TO HAVE OCCURRED. THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING THE RIGHTS OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Transcribed from the movie by Tara Carreon] English Language Translations: Peter B. Gushue, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia and Anthony R. Santoro, Ph.D.; Identifications: Anthony R. Santoro, Ph.D. Triumph of the Will The Document of the Reich Party Day 1934 Commissioned by order of the Fuhrer Directed by Leni Riefenstahl On the 5th of September 1934 ... 20 years after the outbreak of the World War ... 16 years after the beginning of Germany's suffering ... 19 months after the beginning of the German Rebirth ... Adolf Hitler flew again to Nuremberg to review his faithful followers. The "old city" or Nuremberg Motorcade from the airport to the Hotel Deutscher Hof A bouquet for the Fuhrer Arrival at the Hotel Deutscher Hof Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler (Hitler's SS Bodyguard Regiment) Band serenade and night rally in front of Hitler's hotel Hitler Youth and German Youth encampment outside the city of Nuremberg March past of farmers in traditional costume and presentation of the harvest to Hitler Hitler and Dr. Robert Ley, Reichsleiter and Head of The German Labor Front (DAF-Deutsche Arbeitsfront) ... review ranks of Labor Front men Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer Viktor Lutz, SA Obergruppenfuhrer and Chief of Staff of the Storm Troopers (SA - Sturmabteilungen) ... succeeding Ernst Rohm Dr. Josef Goebbels, Reich Minister of People Enlightenment and Propaganda and Gauleiter of Berlin Baldur Von Schirach, Reichsjudendfuhrer (Reich Youth Leader) Congress Hall of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer I open the Congress of the Sixth Party Day ... in respectful public memory of ... General Field Marshal and Reich President Von Hindenburg ... who has passed into Eternity. The General Field Marshal is remembered as the first soldier of the Great War. And thoughts as well to our fallen comrades. I greet the high representatives of foreign states ... who by their presence are participating in this day for their political parties. In sincere friendship the greeting of the Movement is extended ... especially to the representatives of the Armed Forces here, now under the orders of the Fuhrer! My Leader: Around you stand the flags and standards of this National Socialism. Only when they are threadbare ... will the people be able to understand ... by hindsight, the greatness of our time ... because of what you, my Leader, mean to Germany! You are Germany! When you act, the Nation acts. When you judge, the People judge. Our thanks is the vow to stand with you ... in good days and bad ... come what may! Reich Minister Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels Thanks to your leadership, Germany will be attainable as the homeland. Homeland for all Germans in the world. To us you were the guarantor of victory. To us you are the guarantor of peace! Adolf Hitler: Hail Victory! Hail Victory! Hail Victory! From the proclamation of the Fuhrer read by Wagner Adolf Wagner, Gauleiter of Munich Upper Bavaria Adolf Bavarian Interior Minister & SA-Obergruppenfuhrer No revolution that seems to be permanent ... can lead to anything other than complete anarchy. So the World will not live at war. So also the people do not live on revolution. Nothing on this earth that has lasted for thousands of years ... was assembled in mere decades. The largest tree also has the longest period of growth. What braves the centuries ... will also be strong through the centuries. Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsleiter and later Reich Minister for annexed Eastern Territories It is our unshakeable belief in ourselves ... that is our hope for the youth ... to carry on the work which has been put before them in the stormy years ... of the revolt of 1918 in Munich ... and which is already part of the entire German nation's history. Dr. Otto Dietrich, Reichsleiter and Reich Press Chief in Ministry of People Enlightenment and Propaganda Truth is the foundation ... on which the power of the press stands in the world. And that it reports the truth about Germany ... is the only demand that we place on the foreign press. Dr. Fritz Todt, Reich General Inspector of Highways and Construction and Minister of Armaments and Munitions As I speak, work on the Reich Autobahn has begun at 51 locations. Although this work is in its early stage ... today there are already 52,000 men on the job ... and another 100,000 ... engaged in the work of allied industries. Fritz Reinhardt, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance and SA Obergruppenfuhrer Wherever we look, all around there is building ... and new creations ... and activity and life ... which will continue into the future. Richard-Walther Darre, Reich Agricultural Leader, Head of Central Office of Race and Resettlement Maintaining the health of our farmers is the primary foundation ... for the prosperity of industry ... for German business and for foreign exports. Julius Streicher, Gauleiter of Upper Franconia and Editor of "Der Sturmer" A people that does not protect the purity of its race, goes to seed! Dr. Robert Ley, Reichsleiter and Head of the German Labor Front (DAF - Deutsche Arbeitsfront) All our work must be dictated by a single thought -- that the German worker ... be made an upright, proud and equally entitled national comrade. Dr. Hans Frank, Reichs Minister of Justice and later Governor General of occupied Poland As the Leader of the German legal service ... I can say that, clearly, the basis of the National Socialist State ... is the Nationalist Socialist Law Code. And for us our highest leader is also the highest judge! We know how sacred the principles of these laws are to our Fuhrer. These Reich laws can assure you, National Comrades ... that your life and existence is safe in this National Socialist State of Order, Freedom and Law. Dr. Josef Goebbels, Reich Minister of People Enlightenment and Propaganda, Gauleiter of Berlin ... and later General Plenipotentiary for Total War May the bright flame of our enthusiasm never be extinguished. It alone gives light and warmth ... to the creative art of modern political propaganda. This comes from the depths of the People ... and from these depths of the people ... it must always again find its roots and its strength. It may be good to possess power based on strength ... but it is better to win and hold the heart of a People. Konstantin Hierl, Reichsarbeitsfuhrer, Head of the German Labor Service Today, the German people are spiritually and soulfully ready ... to undertake their obligation in the general Labor Service. We have the Fuhrer's orders! Reich Labor Service Review before Hitler My Leader: I wish to present 52,000 RAD men for your inspection. Hail, Men of the Labor Service! Hail, my Fuhrer! Shoulder spades! Spades at ease! Here we stand. We are ready ... to carry Germany into a new era. Germany! Comrade, where do you come from? From Friesenland And you, Comrade? From Bavaria And you? From Kaiserstuhl And you? From Pomerania And from Konigsberg From Silesia From the seacoast From the Black Forest From Dresden From the Danube From the Rhine And from the Saar One People! One Leader! One Reich! Germany! Today we work together ... in the swamp. We work in the swamp. And in the sand. We dam the North Sea. We plant trees. We build roads ... from town to town, and city to city. We provide the farmer with new soil ... forests and fields, land and bread ... for Germany. We didn't stand in the trenches. Nor were we under the shell fire of grenades ... and still we are soldiers. Sharpen the hammers ... axes, pick axes and spades! We are the Reich's young manhood! As once at Langemarck ... at Tannenberg ... before Luttich (Liege) ... before Verdun ... on the Somme ... on the Ahne ... in Flanders ... in the West ... in the East ... in the South ... on land, on water, and in the clouds. Comrades, who were shot by the Red Front and Reactionaries ... You are not dead! You live in Germany! My Labor Service Men. For the first time you are presented for review in this forum ... before me and before the German people. You represent a great idea ... and we know that for millions of our national comrades ... physical labor will no longer be a divisive concept. But it will instead bind us together and, furthermore ... no longer will it be the case in Germany ... that physical labor will be seen as anything less ... than any other work. The whole nation passes through your school. The time will come when no German ... can be admitted into the community of the people ... until he has first become a member of your group. And you know that today you are not only being seen ... by the thousands in Nuremberg, but by all of Germany ... which also sees you here for the first time today. And I know that just as you serve this Germany proudly ... all of Germany today will see its sons marching in you with proud joy! Viktor Lutze, S.A. Chief of Staff at SA Night Rally Hail Victory! Hail Victory! Hail Victory! Comrades. Many of you here tonight knew me ... as an SA man ..
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