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Deutscher Bilderdienst für die Schule (German Picture Service for Schools) is a 12 x 15-¾ inch heavily illustrated monthly rotogravure magazine published by the Reichswaltung der NS-Lehrerbund (NSLB or National Socialist Teachers League). It originated at the NSLB Department of Economy and Law, and Schulrat Hans Mambar was the editor.

Each oversized magazine has 16 pages with mostly full-page and half-page photos and their proper captions. Many of the pages are big double-page spreads (15-¾ x 24 inches in size!) which we suspect were meant to be used as classroom posters or teaching material for Nazi teachers. Some of the pages have been detached from their opposite side along the vertical fold.

The five magazines in this lot are:

October 1935 Reichsparteitag der Freiheit February 1936 Wer will unter die Soldaten August 1937 Niederbruch und Aufstieg October 1937 Benito Mussolini in Deutschland January 1938 Die Strasse im Spiegel der Geschichte with a total of 80 big, very heavily illustrated pages.

The 16-page October 1935 issue of Deutscher Bilderdienst has extensive coverage of the Reichsparteitag der Freiheit, the Nazi Party Day of Freedom held in Nürnberg from 10-16 September 1935. The big photos show parades, crowds, the Wehrmacht exhibition, Adolf Hitler reviews in downtown Nuremberg and at the Reichsparteitaggelände, the SA Honor Day, etc.

The 16-page February 1936 magazine titled “Who wants to become a soldier?” is all about soldier life with photos of soldiers learning to handle weapons, shooting practice, trying on uniforms and sizing helmets, exercise, sports, barracks life even photos of the Gebirgsartillerie in action.

The title of the 16-page August 1937 issue of Deutscher Bilderdienst translates as “Collapse and Rise” and is all about the hard battles fought by the Nazis to get to power. There are photos of street battles, anti-communist rallies, the Freikorps, the Jewish “Red Republic” in Munich, Horst Wessel, and the emergence of Adolf Hitler.

These five original 83+ year old issues of Deutscher Bilderdienst für die Schule have a total of 80 UNBOUND (never stapled) pages and each example is complete, and in good used condition. No odor.

The 16-page October 1937 magazine covers the official state visit of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini to Nazi Germany in September 1937. Photos show his arrival in Munich on 25 September to parades, reviews, Wehrmacht maneuvers, a visit to the Honor Temples and Hitler’s office in the Führerbau, festive Nazi street decor featuring enormous eagles and swastikas, to visiting the Neue Wache memorial in Berlin. The photos include many well-known Nazi dignitaries with Adolf Hitler and Il Duce, such as General von Blomberg, Hermann Göring, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Dr. Robert Ley, and many more.

The 16-page January 1938 issue of Deutscher Bilderdienst has information about German roads thru the ages, their importance to transportation and trade, and military troop movement. It has a picture of the German road network as well as a huge, striking illustration of German farmers and laborers greeting “SA and SS comrades” on a highway.