mss038 German propaganda collection Alan Lathrop University of Minnesota Libraries 1970s

University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455

EAD encoding by Leslie Czechowski March 2005 English Unknown German propaganda collection 1932-1933, circa 1942 University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collections, Manuscripts Division [mss] 1013 items (1 cubic foot) The collection includes propaganda leaflets, newspapers, booklets, pamphlets, stickers, and postcards distributed by the various political parties in Germany, prior to the election of 1932 and Nazi period. Included are items from the Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Centrist and Catholic parties. Mss 38 German Mezzanine Administrative Information Restrictions on Access

Available for use in Manuscripts Division reading room.

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Preferred Citation

German Propaganda Collection (Mss 38), Literary Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.

Scope and Content Note

The collection includes propaganda leaflets, newspapers, booklets, pamphlets, stickers, and postcards distributed by the various political parties in Germany, prior to the election of 1932 and Nazi period. Included are items from the Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Centrist and Catholic parties.

Related Material

The German election posters have been integrated into the World War Poster website, at http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html and can be searched by series title: "German Political Posters"

Index Terms

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Propaganda, German Nazi propaganda Detailed Contents

The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection.

1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Reproductions of 1932 election posters. (55 items) 1 Nazi propaganda (21 items)

Pamphlets and leaflets issued during the 1932 election.

1 Postcards and one envelope of stickers from the 1932 elections representing a number of political parties. (56 items) 1 Leaflets and pamphlets issued by a number of political parties during the 1932 election. (3 folders: 236 items) 1 Stickers, leaflets and pamphlets issued during the 1932 election by a number of political parties. (130 items) Adolf Hitler: Das Werden einer Volksbewegung, by Philipp Bouhler.

one paperback copy; published: Lübeck: Verlag Charles Coleman, 1941.

Kampf um Berlin: Der Anfang, by Joseph Goebbels.

one hardcover copy; published in Munich by Zentralverlag der NSDAP in 1939.

2 Social Democratic Party of Germany. Reproductions of posters for 1932 election. (14 items) 2 Nazi propaganda. Leaflets and sidewalk newspapers issued during the 1932 election. (54 items) 2 Leaflets and sidewalk newspapers issued by a number of political parties during the 1932 election. (3 folders: 236 items) 2 Leaflets issued by a number of political parties during the 1932 election. (178 items) 2 Leaflets, sidewalk newspapers, and mimeographed handouts from a number of political parties, 1932 election. (84 items) 2 Postcards issued during World War II. (4 items)

In an envelope addressed to Harold Russell, University of Minnesota Library from Stanley Wenberg, Hq. Co. 30 Inf. Div., APO30NYNY (postmark date illegible).