Torchlight procession
A torchlight procession is a nightly procession of many people with burning torches .
history
The torchlight procession is an old academic custom. With him, students honor well-deserved and well-respected professors, for example on retirement .
For a long time, torchlight procession has been organized primarily by young people - for entertainment or as a design element for holiday camps , for example for scouts, the young crowd, the hawks, for night exercises or to close bonfires , also for religious purposes or political demonstrations . In the time of National Socialism , torchlight procession demonstrated the rule in public space.
Significant torchlight procession took place in East Berlin in 1989 for the 40th day of the Republic (GDR) .
See also
Web links
Wiktionary: Torchlight procession - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Torchlight procession - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Wiener Zeitung : Sun and torchlight procession in the interwar period ( Memento from February 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Tagesspiegel : Hitler came to power in January 1933: Propaganda and Reality , accessed April 1, 2015
- Torchlight procession of young pioneers (1989)