GREAT NAZI RALLY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22518, 8 September 1936, Page 9

GREAT NAZI RALLY

WEEK OF PARADES THOUSANDS TO TAKE PART UNEASINESS AMONG JEWS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received September 7, 0.15 p.m.) BERLIN, Sept r. Special trains are pouring into Nuremberg carrying the advance guard of hundreds of thousands of prospective participants in a week of speeches, parades and demonstrations in connection with the annual Nazi rally. Tanks, bombing aeroplanes, 50,000 members of the compulsory labour service, 60,000 Storm Troops, 40,000 Black Guards and 40,000 members of the Hitler Youth organisation, of both sexes, will parade before HenHitler. A Nazi manifesto will be read, the contents of which have not been disclosed, but Jews are apprehensive.

Nuremberg, or Nurnberg, is Germany's most famous medieval city and has preserved its ancient character to a remarkable degree. Outside the old walls, however, Nuremberg has grown tremendously in modern times and is a leading commercial city. Many old and picturesque buildings are to be seen in the city, including the Kaiserburg, a former royal residence, which dates partly from the lltb century. There are also numerous old churches, some of which were built in the middle ages. The greatest of the German medieval painters, Albreclit Durer, was born in Nuremberg in 1471