 Leni Riefenstahl (qv) directed an earlier film for the NSDAP  entitled _Sieg des Glaubens, Der (1933)_ (qv), which was of an  earlier rally, but all known copies of the film were destroyed after  Ernst Röhm (qv), who was featured in that film, was suspected of  participating in a plot against Hitler and was executed. Rohm was  head of the Nazi "brownshirts" and all published references to Rohm  were ordered destroyed in an attempt to erase him from history. This  film was produced to replace "Der Sieg des Glaubens", and only one  complete second