The Fuhrer and his faithful, Nurnberg, 1933.
The 5th Party Rally was held 1-3 September 1933. It was the first major national gathering after the NSDAP gained power. The name, Parteitag des Sieges (Party Day of Victory) was suggested by Rudolf Hess. Hitler arrived at the Deutscher Hof on 31 August and at a reception given by Mayor Willy Liebel who presented him with an original engraving by Durer “ Ritter, Tod und Teufel" (Knight, Death and Devil). It was a most appropriate gift.
“The energy which the National Socialist leaders devoted to the ending of unemployment from the summer of 1933 (Hitler described it at the NSDAP Party Congress in Nurnberg on 31 August 1933 as the Party’s most important task), the wave of public proclamations, actions, and collections of donations (regarded by many concerns as enforced) to create and finance new jobs which now got underway with much use of National Socialist propaganda and organization, and the official appeals for readiness to make sacrifices to help the unemployed and needy before the winter of 1933/34 had a twofold object: It gave the Party a new preoccupation, diverting it, in part at least, from the struggle for political power and directing it towards serving the aims of the state leadership.”