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Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) is a four-and-a-half hour operatic odyssey and National Socialist favorite that was performed at the Berlin State Opera to mark the founding of the Third Reich in March 1933.

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Spanning 530 meters (1,740 feet) of the Great Hall on the former rally site, the new exhibition employs text, images, film and elaborate stage reconstructions to allow viewers to experience the full force of this powerful propaganda tool. The title of the show,, is a play on the double meaning of the German word 'Macht,' which translates both as 'makes' and 'power' the Führer himself was personally involved in some aspects of the opera stagings that celebrated his leadership. Elaborate stagings also transformed the city of Nuremberg during the rallies, reflecting the style of the opera productions Image: Museen der Stadt Nürnberg/Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände/S. Hitler had declared Nuremberg the 'City of the Nazi Party Rallies' in 1933, deciding that the medieval city's traditional role as a center of German trade, art and culture would provide a fitting backdrop for his epic, annual staged rallies - as would the municipal stadium, theaters, lakes and parks in which the vast annual events were held.īut for both Hitler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels - who oversaw the censoring and distribution of film, music, theater and the visual arts in the Third Reich - German music, and especially opera, would lend vital propagandistic impact to these mass Nazi military gatherings.Ī new exhibition in Nuremberg's Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds graphically tells the story of how the Nuremberg Opera House and the site where the massive annual Nazi parades were held were dual stages through which art propaganda was instrumentalized by a murderous regime.

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