The anniversary could be a time of tension in Nazi Germany . The ceremony was cancelled in 1934 , coming as it did after the so-called Night of the Long Knives . In 1938 , it coincided with the '' Kristallnacht '' , and in 1939 with the attempted assassination of Hitler by Johann Georg Elser . With the outbreak of war in 1939 , security concerns caused the re-enactment of the march to be suspended , never to be resumed . However , Hitler continued to deliver his 8 November speech through 1943 . In 1944 , Hitler skipped the event and Heinrich Himmler spoke in his place . As the war went on , residents of Munich came increasingly to dread the approach of the anniversary , concerned that the presence of the top Nazi leaders in their city would act as a magnet for Allied bombers
Kristallnacht
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