Posted on 04/16/2009 10:43:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Come April 23, and a total of 65 editions of Fauren Warte, a collection of Nazi women's magazines featuring knitting patterns, fashion advice, and at the same time blaming the British for WWII, are set to be auctioned.
The magazine, which ran from 1935 to 1945, and was the Nazi Party's biweekly-illustrated magazine for women, had a circulation of nearly two million at its peak. Now, it's all set to be auctioned at Ludlow.
As you turn through these pages you get an incredibly creepy feeling about these magazines as you realise they are not what they appear to be.
Racecourse in Shropshire as part of an auction held by Mullocks Auctioneers. The magazine, which is literally translated as Women Wait, had been designed for German housewives. It featured a number of celebrities, including leading Nazi Hermann Goering, and had stories on home economics and fashion news mixed with those about Britain's culpability in the devastating conflict.
The magazine was compiled by an English collector from sales in Germany, and will be auctioned together with Boys Own-style magazines aimed at schoolboys extolling the virtues of shooting down English aircraft and blowing up English ships.
"As you turn through these pages you get an incredibly creepy feeling about these magazines as you realise they are not what they appear to be," the Telegraph quoted the firm's historical documents expert Richard Westwood-Brookes as saying." He corroborates, "It shows the Nazi machine was so well-oiled it infiltrated every single area of human society"."It's a frighteningly cunning way to get everyone thinking along the same lines, women would get together to talk about things and this would be how these messages spread," he added.
Danke schön!
Sehr Gut!
There was propaganda in WW2?? Who knew? Check out a LIFE magazine from 42-45.
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