![]() ![]() Lucius Ampelius also wrote of this altar in chapter VIII (Miracula Mundi) of his liber memorialis where he described "a great marble altar, forty feet high, with colossal sculptures. Pergamon had been the centre of pagan worship in Asia Minor Revelation ii.12, refers to “the church in Pergamum …where Satan’s throne is.” On this altar, apparently burnt sacrifice was practiced as recorded in Pausanias v.13.8. Here the altar is shown during the Third Reich and me in front t0day. The parade "looked like a river of molten, bubbling lava which slowlyįinds its way through the valleys of the city."Īlbert Speer had chosen the Pergamon Altar, built during the reign of Eumenes II in the first half of the second century BCE, as a model for his design of a massive stone structure some 400 metres long and 24 metres high on the Zeppelin Field. Slowly back through the thronged and cheering streets of Nuremberg at After an oath-taking ceremony Hitler drove Marched in ten columns through the ranks of nearly half a million Nazis Lights focussed on the swastika flags crowned with eagles as they were Planned, were the paunches of the 21,000 standard-bearers for the klieg What remained hidden, as the party choreographers had "cathedral of light." The glow could be seen nearly 100 miles away, inįrankfurt. Their beams formed what Albert Speer called the "first luminescentĪrchitecture", vast columns supporting the blue dome of a gigantic Lit by 130 anti-aircraft searchlights shining vertically into the sky. Hitler's peroration came as darkness fell and the whole arena was then ![]() A number of premises were constructed solely for these assemblies, some of which were not finished and so many examples of Nazi architecture can still be seen in the city today.Ĭlimax of the rally occurred at the Zeppelin Field on 7 September. ![]() It was at the 1935 rally that Hitler specifically ordered the Reichstag to convene at Nuremberg to pass the Nuremberg Laws which revoked German citizenship specifically for Jews, Afro-Germans, and gypsies from German citizenship to this day one could be born in Germany yet not be allowed citizenship as in the case of my son. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933 the rallies became huge state propaganda events, a centre of anti-Semitism and other Nazi ideals. It was because of the city's relevance to the Holy Roman Empire and its position in the centre of Germany that the Nazis chose the city to be the site of huge Nazi Party conventions–the Nuremberg rallies- held annually from 1927 to 1938. Home of infamous Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer and Gauleiter of Franconia, Nuremberg held especial significance for the Nazis. ![]()
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