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NAZI ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS RELEASES 1939-1941
ORIGINAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWS PRESS RELEASES
CIRCULATED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF NAZI GERMANY
IN 1939, 1940 AND 1941
CIRCULATED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF NAZI GERMANY
IN 1939, 1940 AND 1941
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Shortly before America entered World War II on the side of the British and Russians, Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the government of Germany were still determined that America and Britain to enter the war on the side of Germany and continental Europe to defeat the communist Soviet Union. History books tell us that did not happen but 65+ year old fragments from the past give us a good idea of what the German propaganda effort was like.
From the fall of 1939 through summer of 1941 the German government used the German Railroads Information Office at 11 West 57th Street in New York City to send out press releases to newspapers, radio stations and other media in America. Many were sent out weekly beneath the masthead banner NEWS FLASHES FROM GERMANY BY RADIOGRAM FROM BERLIN between drawings of Mad Ludwig’s Castle at Neuschwanstein and the New York City skyline.
Each week the German Railroads press release consisted of four to six 8-1/2 x 11 inch pages, usually featuring one to five non-military news items from Germany per page. They range in content from the story of the election of SS-General Reinhard Heydrich as the President of the International Criminal Police Commission [forerunner of Interpol] in Berlin, to Hitler sponsored performances at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth for wounded Wehrmacht soldiers, to new products developed by German industrial research and the latest German motion picture production statistics from Neubabelsberg. They are all fascinating, and some are very revealing of the state of German/American relations prior to the war.
Very rare examples of NEWS FLASHES FROM GERMANY are packaged in lots and offered for sale as explained below.
Feel free to purchase single lots of multiple lots as suits you. We can not and will not read through the lots looking for specific news items, and we will not sell single press releases from any lot. Most lots consist of about six weekly press releases on 30+ pages.
LOT A: contains press release information on Repairing war damaged bridges in East Prussia, New automatic transmission for cars, Resumption of train service in war areas, Furtwängler concerts in Berlin, Reconstruction in Poland, The German food supply, Polish “Corridor” eliminated, Aircraft exports, Vienna Fair, Film industry, Synthetic fats, New locomotives, New radios, August Horch, A 120 passenger bus, Dr. Claudius Dornier, Boxing, Birthrate, Production at the Skoda Works, Oberammergau Passion Play, New airline routes, etc.
Issues 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 through 11 December 1939. No masthead on these. Very good condition.**SOLD**
LOT B: contains press release information on Export finance corporation, First war Christmas, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter sports Festival, New yarn machine, Agricultural production, Three huge new Reichsautobahn rest stops, German worldwide radio broadcasts (100 per week in 17 languages), New Year greetings, X-rays, Steel radio tubes, Postal bus service, National income statistics, Bison herd, Fat from coal, Country vacations for city kids, Saving the North German Lloyd ,,Erlangen’’, Bicycle races canceled, Imports from Russia, An American Indian theatrical play, Brown Ribbon of Germany horse race, Training young aviators, Training the physically deficient, Theater news, Boxing, The Great German Art Exposition in Munich, Tourists in Germany, Movies, etc.
Issues 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16 of December 1939 and January 1940. No masthead on these. Very good condition. **SOLD**
LOT C: contains press release information on Music Festival, KdF performances, Dr. Hugo Junkers, Printing exhibition, The Berlin-Moscow extension of the Reichsautobahn, Records set by German railroads, Lilienthal Medal awarded to ,,Condor’’ aircraft designer Kurt Tank, Ufa theater expansion, ...
... Standard Oil of New Jersey gets license to the rights to produce ,,Buna’’ artificial rubber in the USA, Broadcast Institute opens, Leni Riefenstahl founds a new film company, German social security introduced in German Poland, Resettling foreign Germans, RAD reclaims land, Cable television in Germany, Music phonograph record archive, Income tax receipts grow, Boxing, Low unemployment in Germany, Life insurance sales, Female auto racer Marie Lutzmann, Vienna Auto Show, Bank Savings in German expand, Movie theaters in Germany, Horse racing, Junkers plane crash, Pig skin, Books, Trade fairs, Composers, Heidelberg University, Cigarette Industry, German population, Berlin Zoo, Black Forest cuckoo clocks, Robert Koch, Gottlieb Daimler memorial, Grand Prix of Brescia, etc.
Issues 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 of February and March 1940. No masthead on these. Very good condition. **SOLD**
LOT D: contains press release information on German motor fuel reserves, The standardization of motor vehicles, Wood gas, Livestock supply, Japan Exhibition, Easter week celebrations, Achievements in Ostmark, New atomic cyclotron in Leipzig, Automatic welder, Luminous paint, Portable KdF stage, Educational films, Long playing records, The Behring Institute, Zinc production, Radio listener statistics, Surge in construction activity, Music news, The 1940 tourist season, Boxing, Weight lifting, ...
... Pneumatic mail service expanded, Ancient Roman aqueduct found, The golf season, Medical Congress, Food self-sufficiency, People’s Libraries, German-American Oil Company subsidiary of Standard Oil, Berlin Art Weeks, Sport fishermen, Ultraviolet ray treatments, German bicycling, Foreign students in Germany, Reich Record Archive, WHW or Winter Relief Work, Prussian State Library, Improved magnifying glass, Treating gout with ultrasound waves, Plexiglas shoes, Trotting horse clubs, etc.
Issues 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 of March and April 1940. Five of the six have the colorful News Flashes masthead. Very good condition. **SOLD**