New Material from Hitler Youth Leader Magazines

I keep adding material to my collection faster than I can do anything with it. I do try to update existing pages when I acquire more relevant material.  Today, I'm adding some material for Jungvolk (the organization for boys 10-14) leaders to the existing page on HJ training material. These leaders were usually only a few years older than their charges, consistent with the principle that "youth should be lead by youth."  Two of the newly added covers are below.

This is rather interesting material.  As I comment on the page, not much has been done with it that I know of.  It seems to me that there is a dissertation in there somewhere.

A Stuermer Article from 1943

Today I'm adding a July 1943 article from Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer titled "Our Faith," claiming that the Jews were responsible for the war, and that it had predicted back in 1938 that such a war would end with the destruction of the Jews.  It's one of numerous similar articles from the period.  This was published after the bulk of the killing had already occurred.

For those interested, my book on Julius Streicher goes into considerable detail on his work.

Nietzsche and German Women

While scanning the cover of an issue of the Frauen Warte, the Nazi weekly for women, for a publisher who needed an illustration, I came across a peculiar article on Nietzsche and race. I’m not sure what the average reader made of it in 1938, but I’ve added a translation. The illustration is the issue’s cover.

Reports on a Nazi Propaganda Campaign in 1940

I'm interested in the inner workings of the Nazi propaganda system, and occasionally add material intended for the guidance of propagandists.  Today, I add an article from Unser Wille und Weg, the monthly for propagandists.  It reviews the November 1940 campaign of meetings during which the party attempted to saturate the country with propaganda demonstrating that German victory was sure.

The posters below were used to advertise the meetings.  The party regional office printed the posters, and lower-level units filled in the date and time of meetings they would hold.

German Propaganda Material for Sale

I've recently listed a lot of material available for sale from my German Propaganda Book Shop. As I buy material to complete my collections, I often end up with duplicates — and recently, lots of things have been coming in.

First, I have 21 of the miniature Parole der Woche editions. These were playing-card sized condensations of the larger wall newspaper. Several examples:

I have also listed over 50 of the Wochenspruch der NSDAP, weekly posters with inspiring quotations. These have been sold.

Contact me should you be interested in any of these original examples of Nazi propaganda.

Speeches by Nazi Gauleiter

The Gauleiter were regional Nazi party leaders. Speaking to large audiences was in the job description. I'm beginning a new page of translations of speeches by various Gauleiter. At the moment, the only items are speeches by Julius Streicher, which were already on the GPA, and a February 1939 speech by Josef Bürckel, who had just been appointed Gauleiter of Vienna

I expect to add other speeches over time. Should you happen to have a reliable speech text by a Gauleiter, I'd surely appreciate a copy (although I cannot predict how long it will take me to get to translating it).

Slogan of the Week Posters

The Nazi Party’s Central Propaganda Office issued a weekly poster that was kind of wall newspaper. It emphasized the main propaganda message of the moment. A friend of the site led me to a dozen of these from 1941, to add to the two I already had. The Nazis also issued a playing card-sized “Reader’s Digest” version of the large poster, examples of which are available on another page.