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ELEVEN RARE ISSUES OF THE ILLUSTRATED NAZI PARTY
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP MAGAZINES ‘DER HOHEITSTRÄGER’
FOR THE YEAR 1938
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| These eleven magazines contain chapters by Dr. Ley about NS-Ordenburg Sonthofen, Reichsschatzmeister Franz Xaver Schwarz contributed background information about the Finance- and Administration of the NSDAP, Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler explained the structure of the Chancellery of Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg covered the Background and Future of Nazi Ideology, SA Stabchef Viktor Lutze wrote about the Wehrmacht and the Political Role of Soldiers, Dr. F.H. Woweries (the Nazi functionary responsible for the content of the Reichsschulungsbriefe der NSDAP magazine) contributed an article about the Fundamentals of the Party and its Readiness to Take Action, Judenfrage (the Jewish Question) is the subject of Gauleiter Julius Streicher’s chapter, and prominent Nazi jurist Dr. Rudolf Klare’s lengthy article is titled “The Political Problem of Homosexuals” focussing on lesbians and transvestites in Nazi Germany. |
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| Other articles cover Leadership at the National and Local Level, the Task of Explaining the Economic Four Year Plan to the German People, Hitler’s Orders for Educators, Lebensraum for the German Nation, Jewish Methods of Global Domination, the Treaty of Versailles, SS membership in Numbers (three pages taken from the ultra-rare SS Statistical Yearbook), the New Führerbau in Munich (Hitler’s office), Ethnic Germans Outside Germany (Sudetenland, Ukraine, Baltic States, Poland), “Crazy Borders” [as a result of the Versailles Treaty], the Geneva Convention, the Proper Way to Display and Use Hitler’s Pictures, the Importance of 1 May Celebrations, Keeping Jews out of Health Resorts (via laws and personal action), Jesuits, Mother’s Day, Racial Politics, the Importance of Social Contact with Other Standard Bearers, Jehova’s Witnesses, Nazi Ortsgruppenleiter and the HJ, the Influence of the Catholic Press in Germany, the Importance of Physical Fitness, the importance of proper behavior, stance and the correct way to wear ones uniform (the concept of “Military Bearing” in the US Marine Corps), Jewish “Weapons” in Propaganda, Balancing Family and Party Service, Recycling German Manufactured Goods, Freedom and Allegiance, Bolshevism - the Power Tool of the Jews, Marriage and National Socialism, the Necessity of Large Families, Reichsparteitag 1938, Formation of the National Socialist Concept, Countering Anti-Nazi Press Efforts, the Cost of Elder Care in Germany versus Japan, Healthcare by the NSDAP, Jewish Freemasons, Motion Picture Films for Nazi Party Education Purposes, and much, much more. |
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 zones (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 people supervising all party members in their spheres of responsibility. |
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| So limited was the circulation of this heavily illustrated Nazi Party leadership magazine that on every issue there was a serial number printed across a pad of lines on the back cover, and written in German across the bottom of the front cover of each issue was a statement that translates “Only For Service Use - Confidential”. Each of the 1938 issues of the magazines in this lot has the word Vertraulich or Confidential printed at the bottom of most of the pages! |
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| The unquestionable 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 competent, high-ranking party leaders and issues were not to be loaned out to other persons). |
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The Hoheitsträger magazines in this lot are:
JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST,
SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER and DECEMBER 1939 (no November).
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Above, “The Jew is Always your Enemy!”, an example of an anti-Jewish slogan in public to remind the population of Nazi Party principles, according to Der Hoheitsträger magazine.
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Any issue of Der Hoheitsträger is highly collectible. Finding a nearly complete year as the one offered on this USMBOOKS web page, is exceeding rare especially in this very nice, little used condition!
Above, an image from the August 1938 issue of Der Hoheitsträger showing Jesus embracing a black child on a postcard. It is used for Party Leadership educational purposes.
Left, the new Führerbau on the Königsplatz in Munich, the Capital of the Nazi Movement, and below Adolf Hitler's office in it.
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| Each 9 x 12-5/8 inch issue contained very sensitive information about how to make the Nazi Party look better to the press and the public, in Nazi ceremonies, Nazi organization, foreign news, book reviews and even a critique of the Nazi Party members themselves. This information was never intended for general circulation within the Nazi Party or in public. |
Each issue contains letters from Kreisleiter and Ortsgruppenleiter to the editor of Der Hoheitsträger, technical and organizational news, reviews of new books, quotes by Adolf Hitler and patriotic song lyrics (suitable for educational use).
After decades in an archive in the High Plains Desert climate of the Black Hills in western South Dakota, these carefully stored 85 year old magazines are perfectly dry and have no offensive odor.
All eleven issues are in very good condition. The February, March, April and May 1938 magazines have professional replacement back covers.
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Above, Adefa, goods manufactured by Aryan hands.
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Above, a cartoon from a Swiss newspaper
portraying Nazi Germany as a predator.
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Above, rare SS membership statistics from the SS Statistical Yearbook
(one of three pages).
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The very hard-core and controversial Nazi nature of the content of these Hoheitsträger magazines is the reason that most examples were sought out and destroyed at the end of the Third Reich and World War II by Allied denazification commissions. Their controversial content was also used as a principal element by the prosecution in their effort to convict Dr. Robert Ley and others at the International War Crimes Trials in Nürnberg.
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Above, an example of a state-of-the-art 'buried'
loudspeaker suitable for large Nazi events.
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Below, the 'Führerglobus' as a teaching tool.
Above, the same globe seen at Hitler's Berghof.
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| There are pictures and illustrations accompanying the articles in these 1938 Hoheitsträger magazines showing General Ludendorff, Nazi monuments, Ordensburg Vogelsang, Hitler at the Reichsparteitag, new uniforms and Nazi Party badges, Nazi architectural details in new party buildings, Viennese anti-Nazi activist Irene Harand (right), 1 May celebrations, Georg Seidenschwang (recipient of the Coburg Badge, Nazi Blood Order and Golden Party Badge), new state-of-the-art film, sound and projection equipment, NSDAP Gauappell in Hannover and Stettin, sport events for Political Leaders, examples of newly built Nazi housing communities (Siedlung), “less than exemplary behavior” by political leaders in published photos (smoking in public while in uniform, slouching, hands in pockets, etc., example below), the Führerbau lit up at night during the Munich Agreement negotiations on 30 September 1938, Nazi Party community buildings, and many more. |
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This rare lot of eleven 1938 issues of Der Hoheitsträger is ** SOLD **
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ELEVEN RARE
1938 ISSUES OF THE NSDAP GAULEITER / KREISLEITER
LEVEL MAGAZINE
‘DER HOHEITSTRÄGER’ (THE STANDARD BEARERS)
