I happen to live in Nuremberg. I think the first Nuremberg rally took place in 1933. Hang on, I’ll just check that… I was wrong. The first Nuremberg one occurred in 1927 with another in 1929. Earlier ones had been in Munich and Weimar. Still, the big Nuremberg Rallies began in 1933. Therefore, your quote is a bit inaccurate. <> No. They were organized as worship events to praise the wonderful Adolf Hitler. There’s a vast area of land now comprising, among other things, a seriously big conference centre and massive car park, public parks, several large lakes, a car racing circuit and a fifty thousand capacity football stadium (plus ice hall and swimming pool). That area was the Reichsparteigelände plus camp site to accommodate several hundred thousand Hitler worshipers. Serious building began in 1933 but the War put the kybosh on the extraordinarilly extravagant plans. There was, for example, supposed to be a stadium capable o