Category:Festzug 2000 Jahre Deutsche Kultur

English: 2000 Years of German Culture (German: Zweitausend Jahre deutsche Kultur) was a Nazi propaganda parade held in Munich, Germany. The festive pageant (Festzug) took place during the Day of German Art (Tag der Deutschen Kunst), on July 18, 1937, July 10, 1938, and July 16, 1939, before the openings of the Great German Art Exhibitions (Die Große Deutsche Kunstausstellungen) in the House of German Art (Haus der Deutschen Kunst). The colourful parade had around 3,000 participants wearing costumes and was a pompous display of historical clichés and Nazi symbols in a procession through the city's decorated streets.

A parade was also held during the first Day of German Art on October 14-15, 1933, in connection with the laying of the foundation stone for the House of German Art (see postcards from the historical parade 1933). The 2000 Years of German Culture and the Day of German Art celebration were not repeated after 1939 due to the outbreak of World War II starting with the attack on Poland in September. However, the Great German Art Exhibition was held annually until 1944.

• klinebooks.com about a booklet where the management of the event presented the parade: Following the foreword is a detailed description of all participants in the parade starting with the group carrying the flags and banners of the "movement" and the art. The parade is partitioned into the historical German eras starting with the Germanic time B.C. followed by the Romanic, then Gothic and Renaissance, the Baroque, the Classic era, Romanticism and finally the contemporaneous representatives. Each of the sections is further partitioned showing details of the respective time, e.g. a Germanic ship, the symbol of the sun, etc., with detailed drawings of the respective participants. The parade concludes with a battalion of the army featuring marching blocks of the SA, the NSKK (National socialist Motor Corps), the SS, political leaders and a battalion of the SS with rifles.