Records Relating to Rise of Nazism, Nazi Propag... | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

This record group contains prewar and wartime Nazi propaganda materials. The collection and its sub-collections comprise leaflets, booklets, postcards, the Nazi Party publications and other Nazi ideological materials. This collection is subdivided into prewar and wartime Nazi propaganda documents. The postcards and publications are authentic. The photographs are prints from the originals.

This Record Group comprises seven sub-collections, as well as a great deal of not organized in sub-collections publications, leaflets, and photographs, all in all pertaining to a Nazi mundane self-glorification, anti-Semitic propaganda, anti-Allies propaganda and propagation of the Nazi racial laws and “the New Order.”

Historic/Content Notes, these records illustrate the various facets of the Nazi propaganda over the period when the Nazi movement was rising to power and at the period when the National Socialist Party had become the only ruling and leading force in Germany. Nazi propagandistic materials differ by content and form. For example, there are documents and artifacts of extremely nationalistic and pro-German character. The other group of documents comprises anti-Semitic and anti-allied materials related to the wartime period.