By staff
Title: German Literature, 1922-1945
Predominant Dates:1932 -- 1942
ID: RG-39/RG-39
Primary Creator: NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party (1933 -- 1945)
Other Creators: Anti-Nazi journalists and authors (1920 -- 1945), Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda in National Socialist Government of Germany (1933 -- 1945), Nazi Propaganda Office, Nazi theorists and ideologues (1922 -- 1945), Theory of German National Socialism (1922 -- 1945)
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Arrangement: Arrangement of documents assigned by processor
Subjects: Nationalism and the Theory of State, National Socialist German Workers' Party, National Socialist Ideology, National Socialist Propaganda, Nazi antisemitic propaganda
Languages: German
National Socialism as ideology in theoretical terms exhibits the characteristic features of an extreme nationalism. Hitler's Mein Kampf laid a foundation for the further political development of the German nationalism. Over the course of 1920s and early 1930s this ideology embraced racial geopolitical components. Overall, the theoretical premise of the German National Socialism combined the paradigm of Italian fascism with the geostratigical revisionism of post-Versailles European realities. Antisemitism and eventual emphasis on the sanation of German nation from the "foreign, hostile and parasitic Jewish element" had become one of the corner-stones of German domestic and foreign politics.
RG-39.01, Adolf Eichmann trial protocols
Police of Israel
6 issues
Language, German
The books include Eichmann’s interviews taken at his trial
RG-39.02, Der Fuehrer
Hitler’s Rise to Power
By Konrad Heiden
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1944
English biography of Hitler, written by a German journalist who had attended the first Nazi meetings in the early 1920s. He was a Social Democrat and thus had to leave the country
RG-39.03, Eidgenossenschaft und Reich
Ein Schweizer ueber das Verhaeltnis der Eidgenossenschaft zum Reich
Swiss Confederation and the Reich
A Swiss-published book featuring the relations between the Swiss Confederation and Germany
By Alfred Zander
Verlag Grenze und Ausland, Berlin, 1942
Publishing house border and foreign countries, Berlin, 1942
A Swiss National Socialist writes about the relations between Germany and Switzerland. The book was banned by the Allies after the war.
Chapters:
<ul> <li> The Swiss and the New Germany</li> <li> Blooming in the Reich. Historical retrospective</li> <li> A Germanic myth: confederation</li> <li> Stronghold of international forces (Jewry, Freemasons, Marxism, liquidation)</li> <li> Germanic peoples on the Rhine</li></ul>
RG-39.04, Soldaten
Preussisches Fuehrertum von Waterloo bis Ypern
Soldiers
Prussian leadership from Waterloo to Ypres
By Herbert Blank
Berlin, 1932
A book featuring the Prussian successes on the battlefields in the 19th century
RG-39.05, Das Ehrenbuch der SA
The storm troopers’ book of honor
Dedicated to the unknown SA man
By Karl W.H. Koch, 1934
Chapters:
<ul> <li> Preface</li> <li> Early days</li> <li> Development until the Coburg Elections. In 1929, Coburg was the first German city in which the Nazi Party won the absolute majority of the popular votes during municipal elections</li> <li> 1923</li> <li> From the windbreaker to the brown shirt</li> <li> The path to the SA</li> <li> The struggle for the dominance in the streets</li> <li> Propaganda</li> <li> A storm goes to the countryside</li> <li> The red Berlin</li> <li> Business terror</li> <li> About the life of the SA</li> <li> Captivity</li> <li> The last time of ban</li> <li> The decision is feasible</li> <li> Through the Brandenburg gate</li> <li> The SA’s last way to victory</li> <li> Germany is free</li> <li> The concluding remarks</li></ul>
This propaganda book includes photographs and portraits of the early SA members such as Viktor Lutze, Adolf Huehnlein, Adolf Beckerle and others
RG-39.06, Die Musik im dritten Reich (The Music in the Third Reich)
The music of the Third Reich
Cultural policy speeches and essays
By Peter Raabe
Gustav Boffe publishing house, Regensburg, 1935
Content:
<ul> <li> Preface</li> <li> Music in the Third Reich</li> <li> About the new building of German musical culture</li> <li> Wagner’s “Meistersinger” (Mastersingers) and our time</li> <li> Nationalism, Internationalism, and music</li> <li> Culture and community</li></ul>
Peter Raabe was the head of the German Department for Music under the National-Socialist regime. He was no anti-Semite. He tried to distance himself from Nazis
RG-39.07, Karl der Grosse
Ludwig der Fromme
Zwei Lebensbeschreibungen von Einhard und Thegan
Charlemagne
Louis the Pious
Two biographies by Einhard and Thegan
Philipp Reclam Jun. publishing house, Leipzig
Undated
RG-39.08, Dalmatinischer Fruehling
Bericht einer romantischen Fahrt
The Dalmatian Spring
Chronicle of a romantic passage
By Wolfgang Frank
Hans Koehler publishing house, Hamburg, 1936
RG-39.09, Hirtennovelle
A Herder novella
By Ernst Wiechert (a popular writer at the time)
Albert Langen/Georg Mueller publishing house, Munich, 1935
RG-39.10, Deutschland und die Welt
Atlas fuer Beruf und Haus
Germany and the World
Geographical atlas
Gruene Post Verlag, Berlin, 1934
RG-39.11, Stirb und Werde
Aus Briefen und Kriegstagebuchblaettern des Leutnants Bernhard von der Marwitz
Die and Grow
Entries from the letters and the diary of the Second Lieutenant, Bernhard von der Marwitz
Wilh, Gottl and Korn publishing house, Breslau, 1931
RG-39.12, Das wahre Deutschland
Auslandsblaetter der Deutschen Freiheitspartei
The True Germany
A narrative about the German Freedom Party
November, December, 1940, Berlin – London
This is an anti-Nazi publication
Content:
<ul> <li> Roosevelt</li> <li> The Third Byzantium</li> <li> The German worker and the Nazi war</li> <li> National Socialist cultural mirror</li> <li> Germany’s financial miracle</li> <li> Pseudoscience in the Third Reich <ul> <li> Philosophy and ideology</li> </ul> </li> <li> The way to German liberty <ul> <li> Eternal broadcast crimes</li> <li> Russia and the Reich</li> <li> The gift of forced labor</li> <li> Fooled citizens</li> <li> Bad nerves in the Third Reich?</li> <li> Streicher, the poetry</li> </ul> </li></ul>
RG-39.13, Maedel – eure Welt!
Das Jahrbuch der Deutschen Maedel
Girls, this is your world!
Yearbook for the German girls
Published by Hilde Munske
Central publishing house of the NSDAP, Munich, 1943
Content:
<ul> <li> Girls at work</li> <li> About German women</li> <li> About the workday and job</li> <li> Through German land</li> <li> Europe and the world</li> <li> Narrations</li> <li> The joy of artistic pursuit</li></ul>
RG-39.14, Die Geaechteten
The Outlaws
By Ernst von Salomon
Rowohlt publishing house, Berlin, 1933
A novel
RG-39.15, Der Baum von Clery
The Tree of Clery
By Joachim von der Goltz
A novel
Albert Langen/Georg Mueller, Munich, 1934
RG-39.16, Dokumente aus dem Dritten Reich
Documents from the Third Reich
Published by Dr. Adolf Dresler, written by Fritz Maier-Hartmann
Central publishing house of the NSDAP, Munich, 1939
The book has Nazi seals all over it.
A chronicle that shows the events for each year since the Nazis came to power in 1933. The first chapter is “Germany before the Nazis,” followed by “The first year under National Socialist governance, January 30, 1933 – January 30, 1934” and so on.
The last chapter is “The German Empire at the Fuehrer’s 50th birthday”
RG-39.17, Kleine Rassenkunde des Deutschen Volkes
Little Ethnogeny of the German people
By Hans F.K. Guenther
J.F. Lehmanns publishing house, Munich, 1934
A propagandist publication. It contains illustrations (mainly headshots to show racial characteristics)
RG-39.18, Juden stellen sich vor
Jews Introduce Themselves
Stürmer publishing house
It contains 24 pictures (portraits of Jews, for instance the cadger, the chapman, etc.) from the Stürmer cartoonists.
An antisemitic publication
RG-39.19, Das Wesensgefuege des Nationalsozialismus
The Characterization of National Socialism
By Alfred Rosenberg
Eher publishing house, Munich, 1932
A Nazi ideological publication
Content:
<ul> <li> The preconditions</li> <li> Racial philosophy and the organization of the state</li> <li> Foreign policy and economic ethics</li> <li> Ideology, religion, politics</li> <li> Rebirth of a civilized behavior</li> <li> Symbols of life</li> <li> Supplement (a program)</li></ul>
RG-39.20, Rassenkunde des juedischen Volkes
Ethnology of the Jewish people
By Hans F.K. Guenther
J.F. Lehmanns publishing house, Munich, 1931
A racial publication
Content:
<ul> <li> Introduction</li> <li> The population of Palestine before the immigration of the Hebrews</li> <li> The Hebrews at the time of their immigration to Canaan</li> <li> The merge of the Hebrews and the Canaanites</li> <li> Merge of peoples and races through resettlement of the Hebrews</li> <li> The Hebrews’ ideas of the beauty</li> <li> Jews from the time of their diversion until the 19th century</li> <li> Jews at the modern time</li> <li> The Jewish question</li> <li> Maps</li></ul>
RG-39.21, Der Parteitag der Freiheit vom 10. bis 16. September 1935
Offizieller Bericht ueber den Verlauf des Reichsparteitages mit saemtlichen Kongressreden
The Party rallies of freedom between September 10 and 16, 1935
Official report about the course of the party rallies, including the narratives of the speeches
Central publishing house of the NSDAP, Munich, 1936
A Nazi ideology publication
RG-39.22, Luther Bibliothek des Paulus-Museums der Stadt Worms
Luther library of the Paulus museum of the city of Worms
Darmstadt, 1922
Content:
<ul> <li> Preface to the first edition</li> <li> Preface to the second edition</li> <li> Introduction</li> <li> The First chapter <ul> <li> Autographs</li> <li> Manuscripts</li> <li> Rare prints and curiosities before and until the beginning of the Reformation</li> </ul> </li> <li> The Second chapter <ul> <li> Luther autotypes 1516-1545</li> </ul> </li> <li> The Third chapter <ul> <li> Luther’s writings, published after his death</li> <li> Collected edition of all of Luther’s works</li> </ul> </li> <li> The Fourth chapter <ul> <li> Contemporaries of Luther. Protagonists, and enemies of the Reformation</li> </ul> </li></ul>
RG-39.23, Dokumente der Deutschen Politik
Documents of German politics (5 volumes)
By Dr. Axel Friedrichs and Dr. Hans Bolz
Junker und Duennhaupt publishing house, Berlin, 1935 – 1938
National Socialist ideology
Volume 1:
Die Nationalsozialisitische Revolution 1933
The National Socialist Revolution 1933
<ul> <li> The seizure of power by the National Socialists</li> <li> Fight for freedom</li> <li> The fight for the German worker</li> <li> The rebuilding of nation, economy, culture and law</li></ul>
Volume 2:
Der Aufbau des deutschen Fuehrerstaates
Das Jahr 1934
The building of a German Fuehrer nation
The year of 1934
<ul> <li> The building of a German Fuehrer nation</li> <li> German peace policy</li> <li> The realignment of nation, people, economy, culture, and law</li></ul>
Volume 3:
Deutschlands Weg zur Freiheit, 1935
Germany’s way to freedom, 1935
<ul> <li> National Socialist politics</li> <li> Germany’s struggle for peace and fairness</li> <li> The realignment of nation, people, economy, culture, and law</li></ul>
Volume 4:
Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Grossmacht
Germany’s path to a major power
<ul> <li> The National Socialist state and the National Socialist movement</li> <li> The struggle for peace and German honor</li> <li> The realignment of nation, people, economy, culture, and law</li></ul>
Volume 5:
Von der Grossmacht zur Weltmacht, 1937
From the major power to a world power, 1937
<ul> <li> The National Socialist state and the National Socialist movement</li> <li> Germany’s foreign policy</li> <li> The realignment of nation, people, economy, culture, and law</li></ul>
RG-39.24, Das ist Polen
This is Poland
By F.W. von Derken
Albert Langen/Georg Mueller publishing house, Munich, 1932
Content:
<ul> <li> The unknown land</li> <li> The miracle on the Vistula (The Polish-Russian War of 1920)</li> <li> Fait accompli (the annexation of Wilno and the conflict with Lithuania)</li> <li> Korfanty conducts the war (The Struggle for Upper Silesia 1921)</li> <li> The Marshall goes to the front (Pilsudski’s coup d’état in May 1926)</li> <li> The country of the elite (The affair Zagurski, Pilsudski’s finance minister on trial. Middle Ages in Brest - Litovsk)</li> <li> East Polish Inferno (The fight against Belarusians)</li> <li> Informers and spies in Upper Silesia (agent Pielawski and his methods)</li> <li> The big knock against the German school</li> <li> The Ulitz case</li> <li> All hell is let loose</li> <li> Mass migration in modern times (How 800,000 Germans were resettled within ten years)</li> <li> The neighbor who doesn’t like it</li></ul>
RG-39.25, Judentum und Sozialdemokratie
Jewry and Social Democracy
By Karl Paumgartten
Heimatverlag Leopold Stocker, Graz, ca 1920
Antisemitic publication
Content:
<ul> <li> Preconditions</li> <li> Jewish character</li> <li> What is a Jew?</li> <li> Who is a Jew?</li> <li> How does the Jew do it?</li> <li> Proletarians and bourgeois</li> <li> Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism</li> <li> Leveling down</li> <li> Wage policy</li> <li> Shifting</li> <li> Dictatorship of the proletariat</li> <li> Walter Rathenau</li> <li> What is now?</li></ul>
RG-39.26, Der Steinbruch
The quarry
By Joachim von der Goltz
A novel
Albert Langen/Georg Mueller, Munich, 1938
RG-39.27, Der Stuermer, Self-Description
RG-39.28, Translation of RG-39.27 Der Stürmer, Self-Description
RG-39.29, Geschichte der Juedischen Muenzen
The History of Jewish coins
By M.A. Levy
Nies’sche Buchdruckerei publishing house, Leipzig, 1862
A history of Jewish coins including illustrations and charts
RG-39.30, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
A 1937 edition
Note on the first flyleaf reads, “Given to me by a German women [sic] whose home we made our C.P.
23 May 1945, Drewer Nord near Recklinghausen
Nationalism and the Theory of State
National Socialist German Workers' Party
National Socialist Ideology
National Socialist Propaganda
Nazi antisemitic propaganda
Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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Digital copies available upon request
Use Restrictions: Copyrighted materials
Ein Schweizer ueber das Verhaeltnis der Eidgenossenschaft zum Reich, the Swiss Confederation and the Reich.
A Swiss-authored book about the relationship between the Swiss Confederation nad the Reich written by Alfred Zander. The book was published by Verlag Grenze und Ausland, Publishing House Border and Foreign countries in Berlin in 1942.
Zander was a Swiss National Socialist and wrote about the relations between Germany and Switzerland. The book was banned by the Allies after the war.
Das Ehrenbuch der SA; The Storm Troopers' Book of Honor. Written by Karl W.H. Koch in 1934 and dedicated to the unknown SA man.
This propaganda book includes photographs and portraits of early SA members such as Viktor Lutze, Adolf Huehnlein, Adolf Beckerle, etc.
Die Musik im dritten Reich; Kulturpolitische Reden und Aufsaetze, The Music of the Third Reich; Cultural Policy Speeches and Essays. Written by Peter Raabe and published by Gustav Boffe Publishing House in Regensburn, 1935.
This book is not necessarily a piece of Nazi propaganda. Peter Raabe was the head of the Nazi Department for Music, but was not an anti-Semite. He tried to distances himself from the Nazi party.
Karl der Grosse Ludwig der Fromme Zwei Lebensbeschreibungen von Einhard und Thegan
Charlemagne Louis the Pious Two biographies by Einhard and Thegan
The book was published by Philipp Reclam Jun. Publishing House in Leipzig. There is no date.
Dalmatinischer Fruehling; Bericht einer romantischen Fahrt, Dalmation Spring; Chronicle of a Romantic Passage. The book was written by Wolfgang Frank and published by the Hans Koehler Publishing House in Hamburg in 1936.
The novel includes a dedication that translates: "Edda v. Reuaif (?) with best greetings the book that we wrote 'together' on the 'Germany' between Hamburg and New York."
The dedication is then signed by Wolfgang Frank and dated 17 April 1936.
Stirb und Werde; Aus Briefen und Kriegstagebuchblattern des Leutnants Bernhard von der Marwitz, Die and Grow; From Letters and Diary Entries of the Second Lieutenant Bernhard von der Marwitz.
The book was published by Wilh. Gottl. Korn Publishing House in Breslau, 1931.
Das Wahre Deutschland; Auslandblaetter der Deutschen Freiheitspartei, The True Germany; Foreign Paper of the German Freedom Party.
A publication introduced by the German Freedom Party In November or December 1940 in London, England. The content contains anti-Nazi propaganda. It discusses various topics such as US President Roosevelt, Pseudoscience in the Third Reich, and the way to German liberty.
Maedel -- eure Welt!; Das Jahrbuch der Deutschen Maedel, Girls -- your World!; Yearbook of the German girls.
The book was published by Hilde Munske and Central Publishing House of the NSDAP in Munich in 1943. The book contains many illustrations and chapters about German women, Europe and the world, and the joy of artistic pursuit.
Die Geaechteten, The Outlaws.
A novel by Ernst von Salomon published by Rowohlt Publishing House in Berlin, 1933.
Der Baum von Clery, the Tree of Clery.
A novel by Joachim von der Goltz, the book was published by Albert Langen/Georg Mueller in Munich in 1934.
Dokumente aus dem Dritten Reich, Documents from the Third Reich
The book was written by Fritz Maier-Hartmann and published by Dr. Adolf Dresler and Central Publishing House of the NSDAP in Munich in 1939.
The book contains a number of Nazi seals. This book contains propaganda and outlines events for each year since the Nazis came into power in 1933. The first chapter is "Germany before the Nazis", followed by "The first year under National Socialist governance, 30 January 1933 -- 30 January 1934", etc. The last chapter is "The German Empire on the Fuehrer's 50th Birthday".
Kleine Rassenkunde des Deutschen Volkes, Little Ethnogeny of the German People
The book was written by Hans F.K. Guenther and published by J.F. Lehmanns Publishing House in Munich in 1934.
The book is propaganda to promote the difference between the German people and German Jews. The book contains illustrations, which are mostly portraits of different people to give examples of racial characteristics.
Juden stellen sich vor, Jews Introduce Themselves
A book published by Stuermer Publishing House. The book contains twenty four drawings, portraits of Jews, from Stuermer cartoonists. The book is meant to promote the idea that the Jews were different from the German people and support the Nazi racial ideology.
Das Wesensgefueges des Nationalsozialismus, The Characteristics of National Socialism
A book by Alfred Rosenberg published by Eher Publishing House in Munich in 1932.
The book contains propaganda supporting the Nazi Party and the Third Reich. It contains chapters discussing racial philosophy, foreign policy, ideology, religion, rebirth of civilized behavior, and politics.
Rassenkunde des juedischen Volkes, Ethnogeny of the Jewish People
A book written by Hans F.K. Guenther and published by J.F. Lehmanns Publishing House in Munich, 1931.
The book contains massive propaganda against Jews. The book discusses the immigration of Hebrews to Palestine, as well as Jews of the present and the Hebrews' idea of beauty.
Der Parteitag der Freiheit vom 10. bis 16. September 1935; Offizieller Bericht ueber den Verlauf des Reichsparteitages mit saemtlichen Kongressreden, The Party Rally of Freedom Between September 10 and 16, 1935; Official Report about the Course of the Party Rally with all Congressional Speeches
Published by Central Publishing House of the NSDAP in Munich, 1936.
The book is meant to provide a positive image of the Nazi party and to encourage the German people to join.
Luther Bibliothek des Paulus-Museums der Stadt Worms, Luther Library of the Paulus Museum of the city of Worms
Published in Darmstadt in 1922.
The book is a German translation of Martin Luther's original ninety nine thesis that he originally wrote in Latin as a response to the supposed attrocities of the Catholic church. It also includes a preface to his work as well as autographs, manuscripts, writings published after his death, nad a collected edition of all of Luther's works.
Dokumente der Deutschen Politik, Documents of German Politics (Five Volumes)
A book by Dr. Axel Friedrichs and Dr. Hans Bolz and published by Junker und Duennhaupt Publishing House in Berlin in 1935--36--37--38.
Volume I: Die Nationalsozialisitische Revolution 1933, The National Socialist Revolution 1933 This volume includes the seizure of power by the National Socialists, fight for freedom, the fight about the German worker, and the rebuilding of nation, economy, culture, and law.
Volume II: Der Aufbau des deutschen Fuehrerstaates Das Jahr 1934, The Building of a German Fuehrer nation the year 1934 This volume includes the building of a German Fuehrer nation, German peace policy, and the realignment of nation, people, economy, culture and law.
Volume III: Deutschlands Weg zur Freiheit 1935, Germany's Way to Freedom 1935 This volume includes National Socialist politics, Germany's struggle for peace and fairness, and the realignment of nation, people, economy, culture, and law.
Volume IV: Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Grosmacht, Germany's Way up to a Major Power This volume includes the National Socialist State and the National Socialist movement, the struggle for peace and German honor, and the realignment of nation, people, economy, culture, and law.
Volume V: Von der Grossmacht zur Weltmacht 1937, From the Major Power to a World Power 1937 This volume includes the National Socialist state and the National Socialist movement, Germany's foreign policy, and the realignment of nation, people, economy, culture, and law.
The five volumes were created as a means of propaganda to support the Nazi party.
Das ist Polen, This is Poland
A book written by F.W. von Derken and published by Albert Langen/Georg Mueller Publishing House in Munich in 1932.
The book contains a brief history of Poland, focusing more on recent history after WWI. The book discusses wars that Poland has been involved in as well as political and cultural struggles with Germany. The book presents a basic picture of Poland as a weak country.
Judentum und Sozialdemokratie, Jewry and Social Democracy.
A book by Karl Paumgartten and published byHeimatverlag Leopold Stocker in Graz, 1920.
The book is propaganda about Jews. The book describes the character and the facial features of a Jew so that the reader can properly identify them. It also poses a question to the reader and asks what they believe needs to be done about the Jewish problem.
Der Steinbruch, The Quarry
A novel by Joachim von der Goltz and published by Albert Langen/Georg Mueller in Munich, 1938.
A paper entitled The Striker published by Julius Streicher. The paper was printed on a weekly basis. The paper is written in German.
The publication discusses the Jewish question and was known for being extremely anti-Semitic. The publication became notoriously known for its zoological anti-Semitism. The paper also includes a list of prices in various locations, including England and France.
A copy of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, My Struggle.
The book was printed in Germany in 1937.
The book was written while Hitler was imprisoned and discusses his early years. It also reveals the origins of Hitler's hatred for the Jewish people of Europe.
The book includes the handwritten inscription "Given to me by a German woman whose home we made our C.P. 23 May 1945 Drewer Nord near Racklinghausen."
