Signal: Hitler's Wartime Picture Magazine edited by S L Mayer

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers. Stamps and some writing on front blank page. Borrower card pocket and stamps on inside back cover. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing marks on foredges, front and back endpages. Mark on top foredge. Dust jacket has a minor tears to edges and is now enclosed in a glossy protective cover.

Signal was the most widely circulated magazine in Europe during the Second World War. Published under the auspices of the Wehrmacht and supervised by Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda, Signal was distributed in twenty languages throughout occupied Europe between 1940 and 1945. Its circulation reached a high point of three million in 1943, most of it outside Germany.

Signal was meant for the consumption of the peoples of occupied Europe to show them the excellent conditions of life in Germany and the power and might of German armed forces in Europe and North Africa. Its design and format have been copied by many European publications since the war, as its treatment of action photographs and its collection of colour on the war and the home front in the Third Reich are incomparable.

The pages from Signal in this book are taken from its English edition, originally produced for the United States and Ireland, but after the fall of France, it was sold to readers in the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, which were occupied by the Wehrmacht after France was overrun. It was published in English in 1940-44 and ceased publication when its editorial office for the English and French editions was closed after the liberation of Paris in the summer of 1944.

Signal is more than a social document. It is the Third Reich’s view of itself. It represents the finest collection of photographs of the Second World War in Europe. It is a living record of the force of Nazi propaganda in a most persuasive, colourful and highly illustrative format--the brutal face of life in the Third Reich and Germany at war.

All profits from the sale of this book go to the Bunbury RSL.