Parole der Woche

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Parole der Woche ("Slogan of the Week"

Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP [de] (propaganda department of the Nazi Party) from 1937 to 1943.[3] Historian Jeffrey Herf describes Parole der Woche as "the most ubiquitous and intrusive aspect of Nazism's visual offensive ... no form of Nazi visual propaganda made so crucial a contribution to the regime's presentation of ongoing events".[2]

Establishment

bombing of Germany
as a "criminal act" (18 November 1940)

Herf suggests that the Nazi artist Hans Schweitzer was influential in the establishment of Parole der Woche, which began to publish in October 1937.[4] An article in Unser Wille und Weg, the internal newsletter of the RPL, stated in June 1936:

Parole der Woche must not be absent anywhere! It is the only official party wall newspaper of the NSDAP. It presents the unified words published by the Reich Propaganda Directorate that refer to the most important prevailing political events ... Parole der Woche must penetrate every last community in the nation.[5]

On 23 September 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels emphasized the importance of posters to Nazi propaganda efforts, "above all" Parole der Woche.[6]

Themes and influence

"Whoever wears this sign is an enemy of our people", from the 1 July 1942 issue

Parole der Woche combined multiple styles including those of

Jews of starting the war and intending to exterminate Germans.[9] On the day before the German declaration of war against the United States, Parole der Woche published an issue with a chart showing the supposed international Jewish conspiracy which connected Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.[10][11]
Herf argues that to Germans who had no other sources of information, "The image and text of the wall newspaper offered a seemingly compelling explanation of how the Jews, so few in number, could have been so successful in plotting against Germany."
Anglophobia, and the conspiracy theory of Jewish Bolshevism.[13]

The posters were published at the size of 135 by 54 centimetres (53 in × 21 in),

German Labor Front, 10,940 from doctors' organizations, and 5,960 from the owners of bars, restaurants, and similar businesses.[17]

On May 5, 1943, the Reich Propaganda Directorate in Berlin informed regional propaganda offices that it was ending the Word of the Week due to the demands of war putting pressure on budgets and the calling up of more party members for active duty.

The posters were noted for their heavy use of

exclamation marks, a hallmark of NS-Deutsch—the form of the German language used by the Nazi regime.[18]

Spoof

Spoof version "blow upon blow"
"Murderer from Berchtesgaden!" leaflet

From 1942 to 1945, small-sized spoof versions were produced as

grace of God and not a murderer from Berchtesgaden!"[19][21] This slogan became especially popular with anti-Nazi Germans and those who considered the war hopeless.[19][22]

References

  1. ^ "USHMM Artifact Gallery: Slogan of the Week". www.ushmm.org. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Herf 2006, p. 14.
  3. ^
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  4. ^ Herf 2006, p. 29.
  5. ^ Herf 2006, pp. 29–30.
  6. ^ a b Herf 2006, p. 31.
  7. ^ a b Herf 2006, p. 30.
  8. ^
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  9. ^ Herf 2006, pp. 109–110.
  10. ^ Herf 2006, pp. 128–129.
  11. ^ "Nazi propaganda poster entitled, "Das judische Komplott" ("The Jewish Conspiracy"), issued by the "Parole der Woche," a wall newspaper (Wandzeitung) published by the National Socialist Party propaganda office in Munich". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  12. ^ Herf 2006, p. 130.
  13. ^ Herf 2006, pp. 142–143.
  14. doi:10.17192/ep1984.1.7416
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  15. ^ Herf 2006, pp. 28, 30.
  16. ^ Herf 2006, pp. 14, 28.
  17. ^ Herf 2006, p. 32.
  18. ISSN 1868-4211
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  19. ^ a b c d e f Richards, Lee (2004). "lack Propaganda – Parole der Woche – WWII Forged German postage stickers". PsyWar.Org. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  20. ^ Heyen 1983, p. 17.
  21. ISBN 978-0786424580
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  22. ISBN 978-0752475745
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