Nazi Propaganda: 1933-1945
BLUERHYMER
Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany. This page is a collection of English
translations of Nazi propaganda for the period 1933-1945, part of a larger site
on German propaganda.
Organization of the Page:
Speeches and Writings by Nazi Leaders
Anti-Semitic Material
Visual Material
War Propaganda: 1939-1945
Miscellaneous Propaganda
Material for Propagandists
Links
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Take your pick and decide how the same propaganda is used around the world
today by every country with an army - America included. The trick: Be aware
that the talk is propaganda even if you support the propagandist.
60,608,582 Americans were gladly decieved.
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Using language as a marketing tool, Bush had turned fear into propaganda. It's
a winning formula that allowed him to mesmerize the nation after Sept. 11,
making himself politically invulnerable, while turning his political enemies
into enemies of the state.
In less than a year, Bush's popularity had zoomed from a scant 50 per cent -
following an election that many believed was rigged - to 82 per cent after the
al-Qaeda assault, one of the highest presidential job ratings in American
history.
"While the administration was selling patriotism, commercial interests were
using patriotism to sell products,"
Bush Propaganda - Stunning Victory in a Propaganda War. Bush uses media
expertly to push apocalyptic view. US president becomes unlikely master of
rhetoric. ...
http://healthandenergy.com/bush_propaganda.htm
Bush's ( Karl Rove's ) inspiration - Germany:
His General. Patton
. "We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out
their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.
We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket.
War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they
will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells
are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that
instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend
beside you, you'll know what to do!"
"Atrocity propaganda is a term to define deliberate false reports about enemy
crimes in war time. In principle this has always been a means of psychological
warfare. Atrocity propaganda was used in abundance during WWI that the
propaganda's credibility was effected and the aims very often could not be
achieved. Such propaganda often caused the opposite effect when obvious lies
were exposed. Famous atrocity propaganda lies were: German soldiers had, on
detailed instruction by their emperor, Wilhelm II, hacked off the hands of
Belgium children and then raped them. The other famous propaganda lie was
published in the London Daily Telegraph in March 1916, that claimed Austrians
had gassed 700,00 Serbs (sic!)"
Das Grosse Lexikon des Dritten Reiches
Südwest Verlag, München 1985, Seite 225
George W. Bush sr. forced America's public opinion to support his war against
Iraq in 1991 by inventing the "Incubator-Lie". Bush sr. and the American media
spread the lie that Iraqi soldiers had snatched infants out of hospital
incubators and smashed them to pieces on the floors. George W. Bush said
(re-translated from German TV): "They hurl incubator babies like firewood on
the floor." (1) Before the Security Council of the Untied Nations a young
Kuwaiti girl witnessed, that she observed the mass murder of the infants: "I
saw with my own eyes how Iraqi soldiers tore infants out of the incubators and
I watched them dying on the floor." (2) The young witness cried heartbreakingly
when she told her story to the members of the UN-Security Council. After her
stageperformance as a so-called eyewitness the war against Iraq was unanumously
agreed and decided. The justification for this war was, however, based on an
atrocity lie: "After the war, the whole truth came to light: The baby-murders
never took place, it was all a lie. The witness performance before the
UN-Security-Council was strong anough to be awarded with a Hollywood Oscar. The
young girl who saw the baby-murders was really the doughter of the Kuwaiti
Ambassador to America. The entire atrocity story was fabricated in New York, by
the publicity professionals of Hill & Knowlton. This firm maintains close
contacts to the American government. ... It was a perfidious show, a vast
manipulation in order to legitimise a war. In order to get the support from the
American Congress and the public, Bush had to prove that this war was against
the devil himself. An inhumane and barbaric Regime that does not even stop
before baby-murders. It was a PR-trick of the most perfidious kind." (3)
1-3) German TV, PANORAMA No. 622, Feb 6, 2003
I. Speeches and Writings by Nazi Leaders
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm
Joseph Goebbels: A collection of 80 speeches and essays.
Adolf Hitler
A 1937 Hitler speech on foreign policy.
Rudolf Hess
The Oath to Hitler: A million Nazis take an oath to Hitler.
To the Front Fighters of the World: A 1934 speech claiming Germany sought
peace.
The Referendum on Hitler: Hitler takes total power.
Launching the Training Ship Horst Wessel: The myth of a Nazi "martyr".
Robert Ley
"Fate — I believe": A 1937 speech preaching a pseudo-religious faith.
"The Jews or Us...": A bad 1937 speech on various aspects of Nazism.
Pestilential Miasma of the World: Part of a 1944 anti-Semitic book.
II. Anti-Semitic Material
"National Socialist Racial Policy": A 1934 speech on Nazi racial doctrines.
A German Catechism: 1934 anti-Semitic material for the schools.
"Why the Aryan Law": A 1934 Nazi pamphlet on racial laws.
Ten Anti-Semitic Arguments: Advice to propagandists in 1936.
Zionism: Zionism as part of the Jewish conspiracy (1936).
"The Eternal Jew": Photographs from a 1937 Nazi anti-Semitic book.
Hitler Youth Material: What HJ leaders were told to say about race in 1937.
"The 'Decent' Jew": A 1939 essay denouncing the Jews.
"The Panic Party": A 1939 satirical article on Jewish emigration.
The Jewish World Plague: A chapter from Hermann Esser's 1939 book.
Ahasver: A section from a Nazi book on the fall of France.
Jud Süß: An ad for the 1940 anti-Semitic film.
Jud Süß: The program for an anti-Semitic film (1940).
A review of the film The Eternal Jew (1940).
People and Race: Material from a Nazi racial monthly.
"When you see this symbol...": A 1941 anti-Semitic flyer.
"The Jews in World Politics": Part of a 1942 pamphlet on the Jews.
Racial Policy: Parts of a 1943 SS booklet on racial theory.
1944 discussion material: A call to annihilate the Jews.
Material from Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer
Cartoons from Der Stürmer, 1932-1944
"The Guilty": A March 1933 article on the Reichstag fire.
"Secret Plans Against Germany": A 1933 call for exterminating the Jews.
"The End": A 1935 story alleging Jewish seduction.
"Mailbox": Stürmer readers denounce their fellow citizens in 1935.
The Stürmer's Readers: A 1935 article on those who read it.
"Madagascar": A 1938 article discussing sending Jews to Madagascar.
"The Way to Slavery": An August 1939 editorial by Julius Streicher.
"Bolshevism and Synagogue": A call for annihilating the Jews in 1941.
"The Battle with the Devil": The Jews want to destroy Germany (1941).
"When Will the Jewish Danger be Over": A 1942 call for annihilation.
"The Way to Action": A 1943 editorial by Julius Streicher.
"The Death Blow": A 1943 editorial by Julus Streicher.
"The Holy Hate": A 1943 article by Ernst Hiemer.
"What is Americanism?": A 1944 editorial by Julius Streicher.
"The Horror in the East": Streicher's last article in February 1945.
Other Material from Streicher's Stürmer Verlag
Two Streicher speeches from March and April 1933.
Trust No Fox...: The first of Streicher's anti-Semitic children's books.
The Toadstool: One of the nastier anti-Semitic productions.
Der Pudelmopsdackelpinscher: Chapters from a 1940 children's book.
The Jewish Question in Education: A guidebook for Nazi teachers.
III. Visual Material
The National Revolution: Pictures from a1933 book on Hitler's takeover.
Nazi postcards: A small collection of propaganda postcards.
1934 cartoons from Brennessel, the Nazi humor magazine.
More Brennessel cartoons from 1934.
Nazi-era posters: A large collection.
Propaganda in postage stamps: A small collection of Nazi-era stamps.
More postage stamps.
Color photos of the 1938 Nuremberg Rally
Hitler's Reich Chancellery in Berlin
Nazi architecture: Photographs of Nazi buildings in Munich.
Nazi cartoons on the outbreak of war: Taken from a 1939 book.
Weekly quotation posters: Nazi posters with inspiring quotations.
Seven small propaganda flyers from the war years.
Ich kämpfe: Illustrations from a book given to new party members in 1943.
Winterhilfswerk booklets: Given to those who donated to the Nazi party charity.
Der Führer 1933: Hitler's accomplishments of that year.
The Führer Makes History 1938
The Führer in the Mountains
The Führer's Battle in the East: The first two weeks in Poland.
Gerhard Koeppen: One of a series on Knight's Cross winners.
Nazi Art
Nazi art on 9 November: The "holiest" day on the Nazi calendar.
Nazi political art: A variety of art with clear political purpose
Hitler portraits: Nazi art portraying Hitler.
IV. War Propaganda: 1939-1945
Stukas Attack: Details on a 1940 Nazi children's game.
Europe at Work in Germany: A 1943 book on foreign workers.
Leaflets from D-Day: Nazi leaflets aimed at American soldiers.
German wartime advertising: Examples from 1944.
Nazi war humor: Cartoons from the Lustige Blätter.
Mass Pamphlets of the War Years
"War Library of the German Youth": Pamphlets issued 1940-1942.
A German Primer: A popular 1940 booklet on Nazi military virtues.
How They Lie: A 1940 pamphlet accusing the Allies of inventing German
atrocities.
"Warning! Enemy Propaganda!": 1940 advice on enemy propaganda.
Kleine Kriegshefte: Nazi pamphlets on the war from 1940-1941
The War Goal of World Plutocracy: A remarkable pamphlet (1941).
Nazi soldiers' letters from Russia: Excerpts from letters.
The Attack on Cologne: A 1942 pamphlet on British bombing.
The Secret of Japan's Strength: A1943 Nazi booklet on Japan.
Never!: A late -1944 pamphlet urging Gemans to fight or die.
War Correspondent Reports
A Nazi account of the outbreak of WWII: From the Wehrmacht's biweekly.
"German Torpedoes in Scapa Flow": Broadcasts by Hans Fritzsche (1939).
Three war articles from summer 1940: The writers are confident and boastful.
The fall of France: Material distributed in the United States by the Nazis in
1940.
"Churchill Orders Destruction": A 1940 article on British bombing raids.
"That is Heroism!": A 1943 account of a soldier who destroyed Soviet tanks.
Pictures from January 1943: A satirical commentary on the war.
The Battle of Monte Cassino: Explaining a lost battle in May 1944.
Rome: Putting the best face on the loss of Rome in June 1944.
Material from Das Schwarze Korps, the SS weekly
Nazis vs. Superman: A 1940 article attacking Superman.
"False Consideration": A 1943 article urging harsh treatment of complainers.
"The Danger of Americanism": A 1944 discussion of "The American Century."
"He is Victory!": A 1944 article on Hitler's birthday.
Editorial cartoons, dated 1943-1944.
Satirical cartoon strips, dated 1944-1945.
Material from Das Reich: A widely circulated weekly
"The Uncertain Casualty List": On those missing at Stalingrad (February 1943).
"The Invasion": On the prospects of an Allied landing (January 1944).
"Unexpected Consequences": On the impact of Allied bombing on Germany.
"First Results of the V-1": The first V-1s were launched a week after D-Day.
"The Kitschified Mass Soul": An 1944 discussion of American advertising.
"Reality is Different": On the morale of American soldiers (December 1944).
"Berlin, a Giant Hedgehog": On preparations for the final battle (March 1945).
Editorial cartoons, 1940-1941
Editorial cartoons, 1944-1945.
See also Goebbels's editorials from Das Reich.
V. Miscellaneous Propaganda
Rearmament propaganda from 1935.
The 1936 Nuremberg Rally: Translations from the official Nazi proceedings
"Last Words": A collection of dying words of Nazis from a 1936 article.
"With German Soldiers in Liberated Austria": The takeover of Austria in 1938.
"Memel is Free": From a 1939 book on Hitler's territorial gains.
"The Victory of Faith": A 1939 article on worldviews.
Diary of an S. A. Leader: A 1939 propaganda book on the Storm Troopers.
"The Soviet Paradise": A 1942 exhibition on the Soviet Union.
Faith and Action: Material from a popular 1938 Nazi "Book of Virtues".
The Kampfzeit: Building Nazi myths
Recollections of an early Nazi speaker: Taken from a book by Hans Hinkel
The Battle of the Pharus Hall: Goebbels describes a 1927 battle in Berlin.
An account of a meeting hall battle in Hamburg in 1930: Violence glorified.
Comrade! Keep Moving: Nazi history in Starnberg, 1925-1930.
"Humorous" Nazi Stories of the Kampfzeit: An effort at Nazi humor.
Material on Hitler
The Hitler No One Knows: First published in 1932, reprinted during the Third
Reich.
Caricatures of Hitler: Taken from an unusual 1933 German book.
Adolf Hitler: Pictures from the Life of the Führer: Translations and pictures
from 1936.
"The Life of the Führer": A chapter from the Nazi handbook for boys.
"We Owe It to the Führer": A 1938 pamphlet on Hitler's accomplishments.
The Song of the Faithful: Poems in praise of Adolf Hitler from 1938.
Everybody's Hitler: A 1940 booklet presenting Hitler to conquered Alsace.
That is Victory!: Letters in praise of Hitler from 1940.
Hitler portraits: Nazi art portraying Hitler from the war years.
See also Goebbels' speeches on Hitler's Birthday in the Goebbels section.
Material from Popular Nazi Magazines
The Illustrierter Beobachter 1934-1943: The Nazi illustrated weekly.
The Frauen Warte: Issues of the Nazi women's magazine from 1937-1945
Der Pimpf: Material from the Nazi magazine for boys, 1938-1944.
Das deutsche Mädel: Material from the Nazi magazine for girls,1936-1943.
Der Schulungsbrief: 1943 material from the Nazi monthly for political
education.
See also material from Das Schwarze Korps and Das Reich above.
Educational Propaganda
"Education in National Socialist Germany": On the goals of Nazi education.
The Battle for Germany: Parts of a 1938 schoolbook on the Nazi party.
You and Your People: Nazi ideology for 14-year-olds (1940).
A chapter from a 1942 biology textbook: Biology serves propaganda.
A chapter from a 1943 geography textbook: Germany needed more land.
Material about the United States
A 1933 letter from a German propagandist to an American friend.
Information for Nazi speakers on the U.S. from April 1939.
Excerpts from The Land without a Heart, a 1942 book on the United States.
"America as a Perversion of European Culture": A 1942 pamphlet.
"Europe and America": A 1942 analysis of America's racial makeup.
Roosevelt Betrays America: A 1942 pamphlet by Robert Ley.
Material about England
Inside England: Parts a book about England published after the war began.
Information for Nazi speakers on England's war guilt (November 1939).
Robber England: Material from a 1941 illustrated book on England.
Guernsey Evening Press: A 1942 issue from Nazi-occupied Guernsey.
VI. Material from Nazi Periodicals for Propagandists.
"The Tasks of Propaganda in the National Socialist State": A 1934 Goebbels
speech.
"10 Commandments for Propagandists": A 1934 satirical article.
"Political Propaganda": A rather lengthy 1934 essay on the nature of
propaganda.
"The Nature of Contemporary Propaganda": Another 1934 essay on propaganda.
"Political Propaganda as a Moral Duty": A 1936 article on propaganda.
"Film as a Weapon": A 1937 piece by Fritz Hipper, who made The Eternal Jew.
"The Political Work of the Radio Announcer": A 1939 essay on using radio.
Banned music: A list of what to avoid from 1939.
Hitler speeches and foreign radio stations: Advice to party members in 1939.
Anti-Bolshevist propaganda: Guidelines after Stalingrad (20 February 1943).
On relations with foreigners: Interesting 1943 advice to party leaders.
"The Officer and Enemy Propaganda": For officers training recruits.
Material on the Party Propaganda Apparatus
"14 Days in a Gau Propaganda Office": A Nazi propaganda office functioned in
1934.
"The Propaganda Warden": Onlower-level propagandists.
"The Reichspropagandaleitung": The Nazi party's Central Propaganda Office.
"Tasks of Cell and Block Leaders": A 1936 article on lower-level propagandists.
A 1939 conference for propagandists: Nazi propaganda thinking at the eve of the
war.
"The Work of Party Propaganda in War": A 1941 review of Nazi propaganda.
A Propaganda Primer: A 1942 handbook on propaganda.
The propaganda system: What a propagandist needed to know in 1942.
Propaganda plan for winter 1941/42: The problem of Russia.
Propaganda plan for spring 1942: Marching orders for propagandists.
Material on the Nazi Speaker System
"The Reich Speaker School": On methods of training speakers.
"Heart or Reason? What We Don't Want from our Speakers": A 1937 essay.
"The Power of Speech": On the centrality of oral rhetoric.
"Hitler Youth Speakers": A 1937 article on the Hitler Youth Speaker system
Nazi Meetings from the speaker's viewpoint: All was not well in 1937.
"The Meeting Campaign": A saturation campaign of mass meetings.
"Public Meetings During Wartime?": A 1940 essay promoting public meetings.
"Mistakes in Meeting Propaganda": A 1941 article on the meeting system.
Directives for Magazine Editors (Zeitschriften-Dienst)
A 1939 bibliography for Nazi propagandists: Nazi works on propaganda.
September 1941: Preparing for a hard winter.
October 1941: Placing German victory in historical context.
September 1942: Victory at Stalingrad expected.
February 1943: Just after the defeat at Stalingrad.
June 1944: Just after D-Day.
August 1944: On anti-Semitic strategies.
Miscellaneous items: Dated 1941-1944.
Material on Nazi Ceremonies
Using Christian holidays: Absorbing old holidays into Nazi culture (1937).
Ceremonies for the youth: Nazi rites of passage from 1939.
On party rituals: The introduction to a 1941 book for party officials.
Nazi gravestones: Recommended examples of how to bury a Nazi.
Hitler's Birthday 1942: A model speech and other material.
9 November 1942: The holiest day on the Nazi calendar.
30 January 1943: Plans for a major holiday — Nazism's 10th anniversary
Easter 1944: A suggested speech for party observances.
Nazi commemoration of the war dead: A sample speech from 1944.
VII. Links
A bibliography of books in English on Nazi propaganda, many of which can be
ordered through amazon.com.
Publications by Randall Bytwerk (Mostly related to German propaganda).
The History of Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher's. A chapter from my book on
Streicher's rhetoric.
Papers on The Eternal Jew: By historian Stig Hornshøj-Møller.
A developing page on Signal, a Nazi propaganda magazine for those abroad.
Leni Riefenstahl: Good links on the maker of Triumph of the Will.
The International Military Tribunal: The records of the Nuremberg trials.
John Conway's newsletter: Mostly on German church history.
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