A LOT OF SEVEN (7) RARE ISSUES OF THE ILLUSTRATED NAZI PARTY |
There are pictures and illustrations accompanying the articles of memorial services for fallen members of the Wehrmacht, Danzig Gauleiter Forster at the graves of ethnic German victims of the Bromberg massacre of September 1939, NS-Frauenschaft and DRK members helping wounded Wehrmacht soldiers, handicraft and art made by ethnic Germans in Norway, NSDAP Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler with BdM girls, Nazi Party officials with KLV boys, proper house decorations, Nazi war art, Dr. Ley and Albert Speer mingling with German factory workers, Nazi soldiers on leave (shown left), suitable and unsuitable pictures for Nazi Party education, Arno Breker’s heroic statue Bereitschaft, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg and Gauleiter Koch with ethnic Germans in the Ukraine, a painting of Adolf Hitler at the House of German Art in Munich, and many more. |
for Nazi Party education purposes. |
at the House of German Art in Munich, and in these issues of Der Hoheitsträger. |
The March 1941 magazine has a very interesting article by Otto Schneider who was in charge of exhibitions for Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Schneider’s chapter covers new, more effective exhibition techniques and is accompanied by color pages with examples. |
The seven issues of Der Hoheitsträger
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January/February 1941 (Folge 1/2), March 1941 (Folge 3), January 1942 (Folge 1), April 1942 (Folge 4), July/August 1942 (Folge 7/8), September 1942 (Folge 9) and February 1943 (Folge 2). |
The combined January/February 1941 issue (shown right) is an example of Der Hoheitsträger that most collectors have never seen. It has a special, very striking cover with a quote from Hitler: “We are prepared for the future like never before!”. The white front covers on the other issues have the standard Hoheitsträger design of an eagle and swastika at the top of a column, the date, and the words Der Hoheitsträger on them in black. |
article by Dr. Architekt Kurt Krause on the new way of building air-raid shelters in Nazi Germany. |
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There was no more important magazine circulated in Nazi Germany than Der Hoheitsträger (The Standard Bearers). It was published during the Third Reich for distribution to Gauleiters, Kreisleiters and other high officials of the Nazi Party and its paramilitary organizations such as Generals of the SS, SA, NSFK, NSKK, etc. It was circulated to the Commandant and a select group of Officers at each of the Ordensburgen and to the highest ranking people in the Hitler Youth, Reichsarbeitsdienst, Deutsche Arbeitsfront, etc. - people responsible for the entire “political appearance of the Nazi Movement” within their zone (Gau, Kreis, Ortsgruppe, etc.). People representing the Nazi Party at institutions that were responsible for setting the right example and behavior, maintaining discipline and order, as well as supervising all members in their sphere of responsibility. See list show left. |
The organizational genius of the Nazi Party, Reichsorganisationsleiter Dr. Robert Ley was in charge of Der Hoheitsträger, its contents and its distribution (the magazine was published only for the orientation of the most competent, high-ranking party leaders and copies were not be loaned out to other persons). Each of the magazines in this lot has the word Vertraulich or Confidential printed at the bottom of most of the pages! So limited was the circulation of this heavily illustrated 9 x 12-5/8 inch heavily illustrated Nazi Party magazine that on every issue there was a serial number printed across a pad of lines on the back cover, and printed in German across the bottom of the front cover of each issue was a statement that translates “Only For Service Use - Confidential”. Each issue contained very sensitive information about how to make the Nazi Party look better to the press and public, Nazi ceremonies, Nazi organization and education, book reviews and even a critique of the Nazi Party members themselves. |
One of these World War II era magazines has a chapter by Dr. Robert Ley about Socialism and Military Service, and other articles cover the Work of the Nazi Party during War (which included dealing with POWs, Allied bombing victims, families of fallen soldiers, etc.), Nazi Party members who died or were wounded during service for the Fatherland, the Obligatory Service Year on the Farm for German Girls (Das Landjahr), Care and Support for Wounded Soldiers, the Role of Volksdeutschen or ethnic Germans in Nazi Party Ortsgruppen, air raid shelters, Racial Chaos and Revenue Loss, Kinderland-Verschickung (the World War II Nazi program (similar to those in Britain) that evacuated German children from big cities to the countryside for safety and health reasons), the NSV, questionable advertising on the walls of homes, Nazi Party Cultural Films, Criminal Law for Young Offenders, Population Management in the USA and in Japan, the Role of German Women in the Party, Everyday Life during Wartime, Care for the Family of Fallen Soldiers, the Ethnic German Population of Ukraine, Political Education for Wehrmacht Soldiers, the Use of Foreign Labor, Nazi Party Administrative Plans for Poland and Ukraine in the Occupied East, the proper educational use of Nazi Party Announcement Boards, etc., etc. |
victims of the Bromberg massacre of September 1939. |