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feeling about these magazines as you realise they are not what they appear to be," the Telegraph quoted the firm's historical documents expert Richard Westwood-Brookes as saying."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.
Nazi women : Nazi womens magazines blaming Brits for WWII to be auctioned
Creepy.
Maybe Obama will buy it for his kids.
The same creepy feeling when I read anything by the MSM, watch anything on the MSM news, listen to the current crop of commies in DC, or listen to their spin (paying high taxes is “patriotic”).
Michelle might like it too.
Mr Westwood-Brookes said: “The way in which the propaganda machine worked, it went to everybody right the way down to almost babes in arms.”
Kind of like CNN...
How would you like this staring back at you on a supermarket checkout line?
Where are the outfits they wore in Springtime for Hitler? The thigh high leather boots? One, two, three - KICK!
Look at the "edgey" journalism of the radical Left in the 1960s "counterculture" and again the pro-Sandanista 1980s zines and the "extreme" alternative zines of the 1990s.
Today they blog every apolitical forum and crush anyone speaks a bit of conservativism.
Same agit prop techniques have been carried on by the Left.
See that Che movie yet? Buy the t-shirt at Urban Outfitters? How about the Obama shirt? The art print? He's marvey.
I call it the Pravda Media for good purpose.
"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.
No, Frauen-Warte cannot mean "Women, Wait." That's because "warte" is the imperative singular - and, like in English, there would have to be a comma after the verb.
Rather, "Warte" (capitalized!) means "station, "vantage point," etc.
Ich betrachte das von meiner Warte aus.
Regards,
Your German grammar Nazi
Kinda like "The View" on TV?
Yes, I was thinking, “Women’s View” would be what they were going for.
The term “Grammar Nazi” takes on a whole new meaning when you’re doing it in German.
Sort-of-a-Sock-ping
Bat Boy is looking better und besser.
GOEBBELS’ PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA
Based upon Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda by Leonard W. Doob, published in Public Opinion and Propaganda; A Book of Readings edited for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
c. It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences
3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
4. Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity
5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign
6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.
7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.
11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.
I would hope the buyer would scan them and make the PDFs available online somewhere.
These are historical documents of a sort.
Bitte schön:
http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/frauenwarte1941
Regards,
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