The
footage here is from the spectacular
National Socialist pageant called the Day of German Art, held in München on the
weekend of 14-16 July, 1939. The festival extolled the roots of Germanic
culture down through the ages and the original German character, and reflect
the power and grandeur of the Third Reich.
The Germanic tribes were brave, warlike, generous
and noble minded; their pagan religion was based on the natural cycle and
worship of the Sun as a symbol of ever renewed life -- the meaning of the
Swastika. Their cardinal virtues included: loyalty to the family and clan,
heroism in the face of death, readiness for battle, and closeness to the soil.
These warrior values of the Nordic spirit find symbolic expression in the Nibelungenlied
and other sagas; in the cult of Valhalla, and in the Viking ships which
expressed the fearlessness, love of adventure, of booty, and the freedom
residing in the ancestral spirit. These Nordic sagas are in fact the religion
of the Germanic people and a reminder of its unbroken racial continuity and
strength.
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