Kurzfilm weihnachten hitler biography
Hitler biography video!
Background: During the war years, the Culture Department of the Reichspropagandaleitung of the Nazi Party, its central propaganda office, produced a book of material each Christmas for those both at home and at the front.
It appeared in large editions from 1941-1944.
Kurzfilm weihnachten hitler biography
This edition has 200 pages of stories, letters, songs, and illustrations. There is no hint whatsoever of the Christian nature of the holiday, made somewhat easier by the German word for Christmas: Weihnacht. The material presents a picture of German soldiers standing bravely at the front, while their confident wives and children rest secure at home, ready to make any sacrifice for final victory.
I here provide a variety of material from the final edition.
Source:Deutsche Kriegsweihnacht (Munich: Franz Eher, 1944).
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The cover: Deutsche Kriegsweihnacht. Published by the Main Culture Department of the NSDAP.
Hitler looking at a Christmas tree. The facing page has these words from Goebbels’s 1