Nazi Decorative Items

Flags, banners, and other decorations were part of life in the Third Reich. I've added some pages from a 1939 catalog of such items.

German Children Playing "Concentration Camp"

While reading Peter Fritzsche's new book Life and Death in Nazi Germany, I came across a reference to children in Munich incorporating a concentration camp into their games. That I had to look up, and I've now added the April 1933 article titled "The New Game: The S.A. Cleans up the Liebknecht House," which was the Communist Party's headquarters in Berlin. The picture below shows their makeshift concentration camp.



The article is a good example of how quickly Nazi ideology penetrated German society. This issue appeared only ten weeks after Hitler had taken power.

A 1943/1944 Anti-Semitic Pamphlet

I've added a partial translation of a nasty 1943/1944 pamphlet titled The Jew as World Parasite. Originally published by the Nazi Party for use in party education, an edition for the Wehrmacht was issued in 1944. It's a good example of late-war Nazi anti-Semitism.

New Posters

Today, I added eleven new posters from the Nazi era, courtesy of the University of Minnesota library, which has an excellent collection. They are available on the pre-1933 page and the 1933-1945 page. Several examples:

Two New Covers from "Der Stürmer"

I have added two new covers from Julius Streicher's notorious Der Stürmer.

New Book on Nazi Rhetoric

My book Landmark Speeches of National Socialism will be published by Texas A & M University Press in May. It includes an introductory essay on Nazi rhetoric, and translations of thirteen speeches. The book contains material not available on the German Propaganda Archive. It is available in hardcover and paperback editions.

New Article from 1929 on Nazi Successes

I've added an article from the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party's daily newspaper, from 8 November 1929 reporting Nazi successes in the town of Harburg. This is typical of the kind of reports the party press carried — successes everywhere was the theme.