Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens

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Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens
Directed by	Julius Lippert
Cinematography	Robert Eibig
Release date(s)	1927
Running time	ca. 20 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	Silent film German intertitles
Followed by	Der Nürnberger Parteitag der NSDAP

Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens (English: A Symphony of the Will to Fight) was the first film documentary of a Nuremberg rally.

Made soon after the establishment of the NSDAP film office, the film is a short record of the highlights of the conference, interspersed with newspaper descriptions of the rally. It begins with the arrival at Nuremberg of the various contingents of Nazis, some on train, others in trucks or on foot. The main gatherings are held in parks, rather than the stadiums that would be used later.

An important moment in the film is the sequence when Hitler greets the delegations from areas of Germany that have been occupied or cut off from the Reich, such as the Ruhr, or Austria, and vows that the foreigners will be expelled and German people reunited. The film ends, like others in this series, with a parade of the SA before the Führer.