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Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner collection
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Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 1 collection Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner collection
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Collection Summary Title: Klaus Kirchner collection Dates: 1941-1945 Collection Number: 2011C59 Collector: Kirchner, Klaus Collection Size: 5 manuscript boxes (2.0 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 Abstract: World War II Soviet propaganda broadsides, leaflets and flyers, aimed at German troops and the German population. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Languages: German Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Klaus Kirchner collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2011. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Biographical Note Dr. Klaus Kirchner, a collector of propaganda, is based in Erlangen, Germany. Kirchner created a comprehensively illustrated set of reference books on World War II leaflets, flyers, pamphlets, and broadsides which was published from 1972 to 2009. Scope and Content of Collection The material in this collection is from Klaus Kirchner's "Soviet Central Series." It consists of World War II Soviet propaganda broadsides, leaflets, and flyers aimed at German troops and the German population. Kirchner wrote the following as an explanatory note for the collection: "The Soviet Government started to produce and disseminate aerial propaganda leaflets
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 2 collection for Germans on June 22, 1941, the day the German Wehrmacht invaded Russia. The leaflet campaign of the 'Soviet Central Series' continued to the very last day of World War II, May 8, 1945." All propaganda pamphlets are numbered; the pamphlet number is placed prominently at the beginning of each entry. Materials are organized by the same numerical system Kircher used in his published works. Only those numbers listed are found in the collection. Kirchner's organizational system, translations, text selection, and notes have retained his original description. A key to the item descriptions, including number, first words printed, date, size, preservation grade, means of distribution, and description/translation, begins the container list. Many of the items are listed or illustrated in Kirchner's books. For more details and reproductions of some "Soviet Central Series" leaflets, see Kirchner's Flugblätter aus der UdSSR, Juni-August 1941 (vol. 8), Flugblätter aus der UdSSR, September-Dezember 1941 (vol. 9), and Flugblätter aus der UdSSR: Gesamtverzeichnis der strategischen Serie: Bibliographie (vol. 14). Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda. Propaganda, Russian.
Box: 1-5 : Soviet Central Series 1941-1945 Physical Description: 1-5 Scope and Content Note The following item list was created by Klaus Kirchner. Key to Kirchner's item description: Leaflet code - First words of leaflet text - size in cm - number of printed pages - preservation grade - month, year of first dissemination - means of dissemination by airplane, balloon, rocket, or artillery shell if required - description: [translation], image description Preservation grades: 1 - Leaflet as printed and folded by producer 2 - Leaflet slightly worn 3 - Leaflet shows some damage 4 - Fragment of leaflet
Box/Item No.: 1 : Rundfunkrede... Stalin am 3. Juli 1941... 1941 July 15 Scope and Content Note 10x13 cm - 16 - preservation: 1, crinkling by artillery dissemination. Description: [J. W Stalin, the Soviet leader was so stunned by Hitler's invasion, it took him almost two weeks to recover from the shock that Hitler had betrayed him and to inform the Russian population that he would fight the German Wehrmacht. For the first and last time he addressed his people as brothers and sisters...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutscher Soldat! Jetzt hast Du uns kennengelernt. Wir haben uns tapfer... 1941 July 36 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. description: [German soldier! Now you have met us! We fought courageously. Let us talk honestly from man to man, without reservations. You are a German, I am a Russian...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : GENUG MIT DEM BLINDEN VERTRAUEN! Man sagt uns, der Soldat... 1941 July 39 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 1 - preservation: 1. Description: [Enough of unconditional trust! They tell us a soldier does not have to think... Down with Hitler. A group of German soldiers].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 3 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : SOLDAT DER DEUTSCHEN ARMEE! DU SOLLST DIE WAHRHEIT... 1941 July 54 Scope and Content Note 12x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Soldier of the German Army! You should know the truth! At a conquered command post of a German regiment the Red Army had seized letters of German soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : GEHT MIT DIESEM PASSIERSCHEIN... 1941 July 65 Scope and Content Note 15xl0 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: the two-language safe conduct without additional text was disseminated in 1941.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front (Nr. 16) LUFTANGRIFF VON SOWJETFLUGZEUGEN AUF 165 BERLIN... 1941 August Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [... Soviet airplanes are attacking Berlin... German-Fascist airplanes are bombarding positions of German troops... The German Command is afraid of soldiers' letters...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Siegfried Witte,... 1941 August 196 Scope and Content Note 1xl0 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Sergeant Siegfried Witte is writing a letter to his wife Emmi from Russian captivity…] Photograph: we see a German lance corporal (Gefreiter) writing a letter, but the leaflet describes the German soldier as a sergeant. As a result of mistakes like these the credibility of Soviet leaflets in general was damaged.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutscher Soldat! Während Du jeden Augenblick in... 1941 August 218 Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [... While you are in danger of being killed any moment your wife and children are waiting for you at home...]. Photograph: A wife and two children are waiting.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Das ist die wahre Menschlichkeit… 1941 September 280 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [This is the true human love of Soviet Russia... Come on over to the side of the Red Army...] Photograph: A Russian nurse is taking good care of a German prisoner of war. Note: the retouched moustache of the German prisoner. All German prisoners of war had been shaved of all body hair. On the reverse, not shown here, a letter is reproduced of the German soldier depicted here. He had written home to his parents and his sister. Note: there was no postal service between USSR and Germany during World War II.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 26 1941 September 283 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... The Red Army has taken Jelna. ..Booty of the Red Army... The attacks of the Red Army will be continued... The 29th German motorized Division has been destroyed...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten (Nr. 28) [News from Foreign Countries (No. 28)] 1941 284 September Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... The Italian people demand the end of the war and the Germans to be driven out of Italy. ..]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 4 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 17 [What is happening in Germany? No. 17] 1941 285 September Scope and Content Note 13x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... Hitler is leading Germany to a catastrophe... German women are demanding an end to the war... Pamphlets against the war... Executions and arrests... German soldiers! Join the voice of your people! Make an end to this senseless and bloody war.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : MACHT SCHLUSS MIT DEM KRIEG!... 1941 September 308 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Make an end to this war! Come over to the side of the Red Army! Comrades of the 18th Tank Division! I am now in captivity. My life is safe. I am being treated well. You all have the same wish as I: we want to make an end to this war. It is a shame for us German soldiers to make war against the workers and the peasants of Soviet Russia...]. On reverse, the Soviet standard two language safe conduct is reproduced.
Box/Item No.: 1 : AN DIE DEUTSCHEN OFFIZIERE Von ihren in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft... 1941 339 September Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 4 - blue, yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [To the German officers. From their comrades in Russian captivity... Do everything you can which will bring Germany out of this hopeless war. The German Wehrmacht can only serve Germany but not the Nazis and the Gestapo...]. Eleven photographs: German officers, facsimiles of their declaration and their signatures.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 33... 1941 September 341 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper "News from the Front": […Attacks of the Soviet Air Force... Russian and English airplanes are fighting together... Typhoid epidemic in the German Army...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Seht Euch diese Manner an: Was sagen ihre Gesichter?... 1941 September 346 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Look at these men - What do their faces tell? Irreconcilable hate against the enemy and invincible will for victory is visible... Russian partisans are the faithful sons of the freedom loving Russian people, they are heroes and avengers. Be aware of their hate and bullets. Partisans are everywhere and you cannot attack them...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : AN DIE JUGEND DER GANZEN WELT!... 1941 September 347 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [To the youth of the whole world! On September 28, 1941 an antifascist rally was held in Moscow...]. A German communist, Hans Mahle, was among the delegates.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Fragen und Antworten, die jetzt aktuell... 1941 September 354 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Questions and answers. Why Soviet Russia has concluded an agreement with England against Hitler-Germany? Because everybody takes all the help he can get from his neighbor if he is attacked by an enemy... It would have been stupid not to accept this help... England and Soviet Russia have a common enemy - Hitler...].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 5 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : DIE WAHRHEIT über SOWJETRUSSLAND. Die Lügen des "Angriff" haben... 1941 355 September Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1, two punch holes at the edge, no loss of text. Description: [The truth about Soviet Russia. The lies of the "Angriff" have short legs. After the unfaithful attack of Hitler on the Soviet Union the Nazi press is trying to defame the Soviet country; the mighty friend of the German people... Hands off from the mighty socialist state of workers and peasants...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Ehrliche Worte eines jungen Deutschen... 1941 September 361 Scope and Content Note 14x18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes. Description: [Honest words of a young German... On this rally, a young antifascist, Hans Mahle, from Hamburg said: "I, a young worker from Hamburg, I am speaking to you, German boys and girls... The Nazi murderers tell you, the German youth was born to die on the battle fields. Cynically Hitler declared he will not hesitate for one moment to sacrifice millions of Germans to reach this goal...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 24 1941 October 370 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 24... German soldier! Listen to the voice of your people, they are extremely fed up with this war... At first the bombs burst and then the air-raid-alarm was sounded...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Bestimmungen über Kriegsgefangene in der Sowjetunion... 1941 October 374 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Orders on the treatment of (German) prisoners of war... July 1, 1941... It is forbidden: a) to insult or mistreat prisoners of war...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 24 1941 October 375 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of newspaper [What is happening in Germany No.24... German newspapers admit that the "Blitzkrieg" failed... Hungry Germans refuse to say "Heil Hitler" ... German pilots refuse to fly... In Germany an uprising is expected...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? [Nr. 25] 1941 October 376 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 25... German newspapers report the failure of the "Blitzkrieg"... German pilots refuse to fly their airplanes... An uprising of the German population is expected... Machine guns are deployed on all street crossings in Berlin, Munich and other major cities...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 36 1941 October 377 Scope and Content Note 12x18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 36... The Moscow conference of the major powers of the anti-Hitler coalition... As a result of this conference America and England will supply the Soviet Union with substantial amounts of weapons...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 6 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 26 1941 October 378 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 26... German soldier! The situation at home is getting worse, hunger is cropping up, the need growing... Substantial discontent in Cologne... Unrest in Essen... Censorship is delaying soldiers mail... The ghost of Napoleon is frightening Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 37. 1941 October 379 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 37... The USA are welcoming the results of the Moscow conference... The USA and England will practically fulfill any Russian demand...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 36 1941 October 382 Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 36... They don't want to continue...Hitler cannot supply his soldiers with trousers...And the war has just begun. How shall it end?... This is documented by the following illustration...]. Translation of reproduced document: [... Authentication! Soldier first class Weiss is allowed to use Russian uniform trousers because his trousers cannot be used anymore and his unit cannot supply him with new trousers...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : HITLER BELÜGT DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK. DEUTSCHER SOLDAT!... 1941 October 383 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is lying to the German people. German soldier! The leader of the Soviet Information Agency A.S. Schterbakow is telling the truth. On October 3, Hitler spoke on the radio... The enormous losses of the Fascist German army on the East Front are causing severe unrest and discontent...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 37 1941 October 388 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from the Front No. 37... U-boat "U-570" reached an English port. The German U-boat "U-570" was seized in the Atlantic and was taken to an English port on October 3...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 28 1941 October 389 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... You will never see (Leningrad)... Germany is ruled by plutocrats... Down with the inhuman Hitler! Make an end to this war. Surrender to the Red Army!]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 38 1941 October 399 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... English tanks for Soviet Russia...The USA has an arsenal of weapons for the anti-Hitler block.. America is ensuring victory over Hitler in the battle for the Atlantic...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Eine neue Offensive - neue Berge von Leichen Deutsche... 1941 October 401 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [A new offensive - new mountains of dead... At the beginning of the new offensive at the East Front Hitler sent you an address. Hitler is lying to you in order to drive you to a new disaster... Refuse the order to attack! Make an end to this war!].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 7 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Schuss mit den sinnlosen Opfern! Deutsche Soldaten!... 1941 October 403 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes - 10.1941- description: [In his speech on 2nd October Hitler repeated his lie that he attacked Russia because the Red Army had prepared the war against Germany... Make an end to the senseless sacrifices... Hitler will kill millions of German soldiers on the battle fields but he will not gain the rule of the world...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Vier Verwundete deutsche Soldaten... 1941 October 404 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Four wounded German soldiers... Your officers have told you the Russians kill German prisoners and wounded... The Red Army is adhering strictly to the rules of war: No revenge is taken on prisoners! No fighting against those without weapons!...]. On reverse, a facsimile of the announcement made by the four prisoners is reproduced.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Briefwechsel zwischen dem Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1941 447 November Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Exchange of letters between President Roosevelt and Comrade Stalin... I have given my agreement to send all armament (necessary). Order has been given to start delivery immediately...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutscher Soldat! Auch Dich wird die Kugel treffen!... 1941 November 460 Scope and Content Note 13x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [German soldier! You also will be hit by a bullet! Hitler is driving you into another offensive. And again he tells you: "Only one last, the very last effort - and the war will be over!"... Until this offensive the German Army has already lost 4,500,000 soldiers, dead, wounded and prisoners...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : HITLER IST DER FEIND... 1941 November 463 Scope and Content Note 16x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Hitler is the enemy of the German people. German soldiers! You are waging war against Soviet Russia. Are the Soviet people your enemy? No!... Hitler is the enemy of the German people...]. Photomontage: Hitler himself is digging the graves for his soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Ein Appell deutscher Soldaten Deutsche... 1941 November 464 Scope and Content Note 17x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 2, weathered. Description: the leaflet is a first attempt by the Soviet government to build an anti-Nazi organization among German prisoners of war in Soviet custody. [Appeal of German soldiers... Since Hitler achieved power the German people have had to keep silent. Only now, in Russian captivity, German soldiers are able to say openly what they think. Initiated by an antifascist prisoner of war, a meeting in camp 58 took place on 8th to 10th October... 158 soldiers from different sections of life participated... The German people does not have to rule foreign countries but it should be ruling its own country.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : DER WEG ZUM FRIEDEN UND ZUR RÜCKKEHR IN DIE HEIMAT... 1941 November 469 Scope and Content Note 16x26 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [The way to peace and to returning home... You have the weapons in your hands...]. Photomontage: dead German soldier and tank in snow. Photograph: German prisoners of war at work.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 8 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Wie ist dem Krieg ein Ende zu... 1941 November 470 Scope and Content Note 14x21cm - 2 - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description, see also above leaflet code 463: [How to make an end to this war...The appeal was signed by 158 soldiers from different sections of life...]. Photomontage: German prisoners of war sign the appeal of the "158."
Box/Item No.: 1 : SEIDE UND LÄUSE... 1941 November 481 Scope and Content Note 13x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Silk and lice. In every German town women can now be seen, their eyes red with tears their husbands have been killed in front of Moscow, Leningrad or Rostov. They also dream of ham, a fur coat, silk stockings. Only lice eat from your frozen bodies...]. The author of the text was Ilia Erenburg.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 35 1941 November 491 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 35. Goebbels is talking about a possible defeat of Germany... Nazi lies to intimidate the people. The Nazi-press is spreading the lie that the enemies of Germany are intending to sterilize all German men... Hitler began his rule by sterilization of the Jews...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 39 1941 November 492 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 39... The German Wehrmacht has lost 6 million men... Big English offensive in Libya... The Russian winter is just beginning... The dead bodies of frozen German soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 43 1941 December 493 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper [News from foreign countries No. 43: The USA has abolished the neutrality act... The USA will transport war material under armed protection to ports of countries fighting against Hitler-Germany... American troops in Dutch Guyana...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : DEUTSCHER SOLDAT, DER RUSSISCHE WINTER IST DEIN TOD... 1941 December 495 Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldier, the Russian winter will be your death... Nothing but cold and death...] Photomontage
Box/Item No.: 1 : Das deutsche Nachrichtenbüro über den Verlust von Rostow... 1941 December 508 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [The German news-agency on the loss of Rostov... Lies have short legs...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Kameraden der 23. Infanterie-Division! Als in der Nacht zum 30. August... 1941 510 December Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Comrades of the 23rd Infantry Division!... Why should I as a worker kill other workers?...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 9 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Kameraden an der Front! Zu Euch spricht... 1941 December 511 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: a German POW is describing life in Soviet captivity. [Comrades at the front!..]
Box/Item No.: 1 : IN DEN KÄMPFEN VOR MOSKAU... 1941 December 514 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - green - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [During the fighting in front of Moscow already 600,000 Germans have lost their lives... Hitler demanded in one of his orders that Moscow should be captured at any price... The Russians will not give up Moscow at any price... Soldier do not shoot at Russian soldiers!...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : MIT HITLER WIRD NIEMAND FRIEDEN... 1941 December 516 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - green- preservation: 1. Description: [Nobody will make peace with Hitler... Hitler and his clique have shown themselves as Imperialists...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 42 1941 December 524 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the From No. 42... Panic-like retreat of Germans in the South... The USA are producing weapons for the war in the air...]. Caption of photograph: [One of the many American airplanes in Soviet Russia]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 44 1941 December 525 Scope and Content Note 12x17 cm - 4 - green - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 44. Newspapers on the occupation of Rostov on Don by the Red Army... New York Times: "a brilliant Russian battle"... The German robbers will be dispersed and annihilated...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 43 1941 December 526 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 43… Booty of the Soviet-Army in the South... Heavy attacks of the English Air Force on Hamburg and Emden…A German pilot to his comrades...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 37 1941 December 527 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 37... Quarrels among Nazi big shots...German peasants do not need foreign living space...Do not shoot at Red Army soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : "Wann wirst Du wieder bei uns sein?" 1941 December 528 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text - description: Soviet leaflet propaganda for Christmas campaign. [''When will you be with us again?"... He was expected at home at Christmas. Dead lies Sergeant S. on the white cold snow of Russia...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 10 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was tut Ihr? Gegen wen kämpft Ihr?... 1941 December 529 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1 - description: [What are you doing? Against whom do you fight? German workers in soldier's uniform!... You are fighting against battalions of workers who have exchanged hammers for rifles... What are you doing? Where is your conscience as workers?...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Der Herr des Hauses hat das Recht, den Raüber,... 1941 December 530 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. description: [The master of the house is allowed to destroy the robber who is entering his house with a weapon in his hands...]. The German radio reported Russian civilians greeted German soldiers with tears of joy but the Germans came to kill and rape girls and women... The author of this leaflet was Ilia Erenburg.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutsche Frauen und Mädchen! Weihnachten ist das Fest der Liebe… 1941 December 531 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: brown - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [German women and girls! For two and a half years you have been waiting for your loved ones whom Hitler had sent to fight the war. This is your third "waiting-winter"... Christmas is the festivity of love. But it is not love, it is glowing hatred Hitler's soldiers are spreading whereever they are...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deklaration der Regierung der Sowjetunion… 1941 December 532 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Declaration of the Soviet and Polish government on friendship and mutual help...]. The text of the declaration signed by Sikorski is reproduced on the reverse.
Box/Item No.: 1 : TOD ODER GEFANGENSCHAFT. An die Soldaten der deutschen Truppen... 1941 534 December Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Death or captivity. To the soldiers of the German troops in the town of Kalinin... The roads of retreat for German troops have been cut. You can choose, death or captivity...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Ratschläge an die deutschen Soldaten. EIN GESCHEITER BURSCH... 1941 December 551 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: the leaflet contains advice for malingering. [Advice for German soldiers. A smart man will always find a way to help himself...Soldiers! Every day death is demanding more and more lives from your ranks... You want to save your lives but you don't know how to achieve it. Listen to our advice and you will stay alive. There are ways to safety... He who surrenders on his free will will be welcomed as a brother...]. (Code 558 on the leaflet is erroneous)
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 11 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 45 1941 December 552 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 45... The foreign press on the war at the Eastern Front... Hitler has the same fate as Napoleon in store for him... German soldiers withdrawing from Moscow are saying with macabre humor "Goodbye Moscow forever, down with Hitler!"]. The catchword [Goodbye Moscow] was ordered to be used until spring 1942. The Soviet general responsible for the production of leaflets insisted on using this slogan intensively. At that time German soldiers in general would not accept "Auf Nimmerwiedersehen Moskau! Nieder mit Hitler!"
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 46 1941 December 553 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 46. Cowardly attack of Japan on the USA and England. At dawn of December 7, Japanese airplanes attacked Hawaii... Roosevelt is addressing the Congress... A speech by Churchill]
Box/Item No.: 1 : An die deutschen Soldaten der Moskauer Front... 1941 December 557 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [To the German soldiers of the Moscow Front. The Red Army has taken the town of Tikhvin... The Germans are retreating from Moscow...].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitler führt Deutschland den Weg Wilhelms II... 1941 December 559 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is leading Germany the way of Wilhelm II. The war is only beginning but already the power and reserves of Hitler's army are dwindling... The families of soldiers are subjected virtually to hunger]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Die Gauner und Falschspieler von der Spielhölle "Hitler... 1941 December 560 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [The swindler and cheat of the gambling hell "Hitler and Co."... The fascist German invaders will not be beaten by the frost but by the courageous Red Army... Oh, these swindlers of the gambling hell "Hitler and Co."]. Hitler had intended to hold a parade in Red Square but instead Stalin paraded his Red Army.
Box/Item No.: 1 : NACHRICHTEN VON DER FRONT 1941 December 561 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: this special edition was printed without a running number. [News from the Front... The German plan to encircle Moscow has failed. Defeat of German troops in front of Moscow... The Germans are complaining about the frost and claim it was the winter which prevented them to take Moscow. It was not the winter but an organizational mistake of the German high command when it had planned the war...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutsche Soldaten! Gebt Euch gefangen! Tut Ihr das nicht, dann werdet Ihr... 1941 563 December Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 1 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Surrender. If you don't do so, all of you will be annihilated... You are surrounded by the Red Army... Throw your weapons away, come on over to us... ]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 12 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitlers hysterisches Geschrei. Hitlers Rede, die er am 11. Dezember im... 1941 565 December Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text - 12.1941 - description: [Hitler's hysterical clamor. Hitler's speech on December 11, is nothing but a howling rage about the German situation on the Eastern Front which is getting worse day by day...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Wollt Ihr Frieden, dann stürzt Hitler! Deutsche Soldaten! Ihr seid des langen... 1941 567 December Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [If you want peace, topple Hitler!... There will be no peace as long as Hitler is ruling in Germany, because no government will accept peace with him...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 39 1941 December 568 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text - 12.1941- description of leaflet newspaper: [...Against the Hitler government... In our town hardly any men are left...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Eine neue Lüge Hitlers. Am 11. Dezember hat Hitler in seinem Zirkus,... 1941 571 December Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Hitler's new lie... On December 11, Hitler showed one of his awful tricks in his circus... A whole generation of Germans has lost its life in the first five months of the war at the East front. The Germans have lost about 6,000,000 soldiers and officers dead, wounded and prisoners...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hunger und Krankheiten wüten in Deutschland. Deutsche Soldaten! Vor dem... 1941 572 December Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Hunger and disease are rampant in Germany... Before the war the fat bandit Goering declared cynically, "The German people need no butter but rather cannon"...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 45 1941 December 573 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1, punch holes, no loss of text. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 45... A new decisive blow against German troops... Soldiers curse Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Massenerkrankungen in der deutschen Armee. Deutsche Soldaten! Bei der 574 Zertrümmerung... 1941 December Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1, two punch holes, no loss of text. Description: [Mass diseases in the German Army... Doctors admit health of German soldiers is deteriorating... He who is not killed by diseases will be dealt with by a Russian bullet...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 13 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitlers Lüge und die Wirklichkeit… "Der Feldzug in Osten ist entschieden" 1941 575 December Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1- 12.1941 - description: [Hitler's lie and reality German soldiers!... Remember the boastful lies of Nazi-propaganda..."The campaign in the East has been decided" Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 46 1941 December 581 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 46... Informers will be killed. How you can save your life at the front...]. Information on deserting is given on this leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 47 1941 December 582 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 47... Hitler's army in Russia is in a situation comparable with Napoleon's...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutsche Soldaten! Hitler ist der Schuldige. 1941 December 583 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Hitler is the guilty one...Leave this army of robbers!... Why are you here? What do you want in this country? This is the land of the workers and peasants... Death to the German invaders! If you want to stay alive leave Soviet Russia otherwise you all will be annihilated...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitlers Armee in Russland in der Lage der Napoleonischen. Napoleons Gespenst 584 erhob... 1941 December Scope and Content Note 15x25 cm - 2 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's army in Russia is in a situation comparable with Napoleon's army... The ghost of Napoleon is rising in front of the German army in Russia...] Photomontage and drawing: dead German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Warum führt Ihr Krieg? Deutsche Soldaten! Warum sind Eure Kameraden... 1941 585 December Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Why do you wage war? German soldiers! Why have your comrades died... America is helping us now. Each day tanks and airplanes are arriving... The German army is getting weaker day by day...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Letzte Nachrichten für die deutschen Soldaten. Goebbels verspricht den... 1941 586 December Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Latest news for German soldiers. Goebbels is promising warm clothing for the dead... Typhoid epidemic in Germany...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Die Lage an der Ostfront. DEUTSCHER SOLDAT!... 1941 December 588 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The situation at the Eastern Front... "The Racial Observer" the central newspaper of the NSDAP is forced to admit the defeat of the German army at the Eastern Front...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 14 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Die Wahrheit über die Lage an der Ostfront. DIE LEGENDE VON DER... 1941 December 589 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about the situation at the Eastern Front. The legend of the invincibility of Germany is a thing of the past...]. Photograph: a group of German soldiers after their surrender.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutsche Soldaten! Hitler führt den reaktionarsten Krieg von allen Kriegen... 1941 590 December Scope and Content Note 19x14 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Hitler is waging the most reactionary war of all wars which have been fought so far...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 49 1941 December 593 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 49... Hitler is deposing von Brauchitsch, commander of the German Army... The German Army is fleeing in panic to the West...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was hat Hitler dem deutschen Volk gebracht? 1941 December 595 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [What did Hitler do for the German people?...Hitler has destroyed on the Eastern Front six million young Germans. Now he is threatening the complete population. Rise up to protect your people against Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 50 1941 December 598 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 50... Opposition of German generals against Hitler... What German prisoners of war are saying?...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 50 1941 December 601 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 4 - paper: blue-green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 50... The newspapers of the world on Hitler's defeat... The entry of the USA into the war will decide the end of the war...]. Photograph: American airplanes at the Russian Front.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 52 1941 December 603 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 52... The first big defeat of Germany... America is increasing the delivery of weapons to her Allies... Increase of America's fighting forces...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Gemeinsame Gefangengabe Deutsche Soldaten! Ihr wollt nicht gegen... 1941 608 December Scope and Content Note llx18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 12.1941 - description: [Common surrender German soldiers! You do not want to fight against the Soviet Union. You want peace for yourself and your home country. But peace will not come by itself...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 15 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Dokumente der Verzweiflung. Deutscher Soldat! 1941 December 611 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 4 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Documents of despair. German soldier! ... I am feeling like I was at least 20 years older... Afraid of the Russian airplanes and artillery...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Kameraden! Zu Hitlers Freveltaten gegen das deutsche Volk ist noch eine... 1941 612 December Scope and Content Note 13x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - Description: [Comrades! To Hitler's outrageous crimes another one was added...]. The leaflet is made up to look like a text from a fictitious committee, "Soldiers Committee Fighting for Peace"
Box/Item No.: 1 : Die Rettung Deutschlands ist die sofortige Beendigung des Krieges... 1941 December 613 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [Saving Germany means the end of the war at once.. .]. Caricature: Hitler, Goering and Goebbels are ordering the German soldiers to "Build mass grave site." Caption: [Hitler and his bandits push you to your death]. The drawing is probably by Heinrich Vogeler, a German communist painter.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 42 1941 December 614 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 4 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 42... You are dying at the front, your wife is dying at home... Hitler ordered the death-sentence for not turning in warm clothes...]. Caricature: Hitler is sitting on the shoulders of "Germania", the symbol of Germany. Caption: [Hitler is driving Germany to its downfall.].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 53 1941 December 616 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 4 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 53 ... Decisive blows from the Red Army... German troops freeze to death at the Eastern Front...] Code 661 is misprinted on the leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 54 1941 December 617 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 4 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 54... The Red Army destroys German troops... German soldiers refuse to fight...]. Photograph: German soldiers have laid down their arms.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 53 1941 December 618 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 4 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 53... Hitler will run as fast as Mussolini... Generals leave the German Army...]. Photograph: This is what the soldiers of the beaten German army look like.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Appell des Soldatenkomitees zum Kampf für den Frieden Kameraden! Wir... 1941 621 December Scope and Content Note 14x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Appeal of the Soldiers Committee Fighting for Peace. Comrades! We should not longer remain quiet... Demand the retreat of our troops to the old frontier in the East...]. The leaflet is made up to look like a text of a fictitious committee; this is a "black" leaflet.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 16 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 55 1941 December 622 Scope and Content Note 15x20 cm - 4 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 55... German generals leave the sinking ship... The Hitler bigwigs are killing sick soldiers...]. The title was changed from "Nachrichten von der Front" to "Frontnachrichten", the running number was continued.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 56 1941 December 623 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 56...The Germans are retreating westwards... Officers are fleeing and leave their wounded soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was für den Russen gesund, bringt den Deutschen auf den Hund... 1941 December 624 Scope and Content Note 28x18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is beneficial for a Russian brings a German problems...The Red Army soldiers feel sound and happy when the temperature is below 30 centigrade...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutsche Soldaten! Schon mehr als... 1941 December 625 Scope and Content Note 14x16 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! For more than six months the war against workers and peasants which is so disastrous for the German people is dragging on...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 54 1941 December 626 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 4 - rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 54... The coalition of Hitler's enemies is being strengthened... The USA is increasing her deliveries to the Soviet Union...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 57 1942 January 627 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No.57... Victories of the Red Army in the Crimea... The English Air Force is destroying the German industry...]. Photomontage: dead German soldiers [Dishonorable end on Russian snow fields]
Box/Item No.: 1 : NEUJAHRSREDE des Vorsitzenden des... 1942 January 629 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. See part illustration, photograph of the President of the Soviet Union. Description: [New Year's address of the President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, M.I. Kalinin... Our forces are growing in our fight against the enemy. We believe in our victory. ..]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 55 1942 January 634 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 55... Negotiations between Eden and Stalin in Moscow... The complete industrial power of America will be activated to destroy Hitler. The American President Roosevelt declared...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 17 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 60 1942 January 635 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No.60... Another defeat of the troops of General Guderian...]. Photomontage: [A white covered clean bed in a prisoner of war camp - What a relief after all the dirt and lice at the front!]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitlersche Lügen über deutsche Fliegerangriffe auf Moskau. Die deutsche 636 Heeresführung hat es... 1942 January Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's lies about German air raids on Moscow... Hitler's men are inventing non-existing actions of the German Luftwaffe... 26 nations against Hitler-Germany...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 59 1942 January 637 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 59... The German Army is fleeing...] Photograph: Members of the Red Army are inspecting the grave sites of dead German soldiers]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 61 1942 January 639 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 61... German divisions continue to be beaten by Russians... Russian attacks from the air on Germans... The German army will be defeated in the vast space of Russia]. Photograph: [German soldiers and officers are capitulating]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 57 1942 January 640 Scope and Content Note 14x2l cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 57... 26 states united in the war against Hitler...]. Photograph, see illustration: [Frozen German soldiers at the Eastern Front]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 58 1942 January 641 Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 58... Hunger in the countries occupied by Germany...]. Photograph: [War material left behind by Germans.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 62 1942 January 642 Scope and Content Note 12x20 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 62... Russians continue their advance...]. The title was changed from "Frontnachrichten" to "Nachrichten von der Front", the running number was continued.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 45 1942 January 643 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 45 ... The saddest Christmas ever in Germany... Suicides on New Year's Day... People are against this war…]. Drawing, see illustration: of a mother and her three children [He is dead For what?.. What for?]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 18 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 59 1942 January 644 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 59... Foreign newspapers on the new victories of the Red Army...]. Photomontage of dead German soldiers in a snow field: [At home they are waiting for letters from these soldiers but they are dead, lying on Russian snow.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 63 1942 January 645 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 4 - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 63 ... Germany has already lost the war... German soldiers have lice...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten 1942 January 652 Scope and Content Note 13x2l cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 60... Mighty front of the people against Hitler-Germany... Eden on his journey to Moscow. Everywhere I had been in Moscow I saw confidence and determination... Attempt to kill the German commander of Paris...]. Photograph: An English Hurricane fighter aircraft on a Russian airfield.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 46 1942 January 654 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 46... The families of soldiers have no clothing...]. Photograph: [Frozen, dirty, worn down, that is what these German soldiers look like!...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 47 1942 January 655 Scope and Content Note 12x18 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 47... Need and hunger are rampant in Germany...]. Photograph: [They did the right thing: laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Red Army.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 65 1942 January 665 Scope and Content Note 16x26 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 65... Critical situation of the German Army... The Germans are dying on the Russian snow fields...]. Photograph, see illustration: [English tanks at the Russian front. This is the way the Allies are helping the Soviet Union in the common fight against Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 66 1942 January 666 Scope and Content Note 19x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 66... Hitler officers are killing their wounded and frozen soldiers...]. Drawing: [This is how the new year 1942 is beginning - for the Red Army - for the German Army...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 63 1942 January 669 Scope and Content Note 19x26 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 63 ... The biggest industrial nation in the world, the United States of America, is at war against Germany...]. Photograph: [American aircraft at the Russian front.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 19 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Kriegsgefangenschaft ist keine Schande, sondern... 1942 January 671 Scope and Content Note 13x16 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Captivity is no shame but the only right way... This way or that way. They trusted Hitler...]. Two photographs: [Dead German soldiers... German prisoners of war in the reading room of a Russian camp.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 49 1942 January 672 Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 49... No space for the sick from the Eastern Front... Nazis are threatening hungry families of soldiers...]. Photograph of a dead German soldier: [This German soldier will be expected in vain by his relatives at home.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 64 1942 January 673 Scope and Content Note 18x26 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 64...The United States will produce in 1942: 60,000 airplanes, 45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns...]. Photomontage: many dead German soldiers: [The retreating Germans leave behind dead and wounded soldiers and war material.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 68 1942 January 674 Scope and Content Note 17x26 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 68...Massive losses of the German Luftwaffe near Moscow... Crisis in the German High Command...]. Photograph: [German prisoners of war producing a camp newspaper.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 69 1942 January 679 Scope and Content Note 17x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 69. Superiority of Soviet Air Force... The Nazis kill sick German soldiers... The reserves of Germany dwindle]. Photograph: [Some German prisoners of war...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 66 1942 January 681 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 66... German generals against Hitler... Mass desertions from German garrisons in Poland...]. Photograph: [One of the unharmed armored reconnaissance cars left by the Germans on their hasty retreat.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 51 1942 January 682 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 51... German generals against Hitler... Nazis kill sick civilians and soldiers...]. Photograph: [Reading room in a prisoners of war camp. Here at last German prisoners of war have the possibility to read literature Hitler's censorship had prohibited...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Folge ihrem Beispiel! Diese Soldaten haben ihr Leben gerettet… 1942 January 683 Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description: [Follow their example! These soldiers saved their lives - they have surrendered to the Red Army. They are out of danger...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 20 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Wähle! Wenn Du weiterkämpfst, bist Du verloren! Gibst Du Dich gefangen... 1942 684 January Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Choose! If you continue to fight you are lost! If you surrender you will stay alive!...]. Photograph and photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hier ist der Platz für Dich... 1942 January 686 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [This is the spot for you! You will be the next one! German soldiers! Your days are numbered. Today or tomorrow you will be dead also. Why should you die? Keep alive, come on over to us!. ..] Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Zurück nach Deutschland wollen wir ziehen, in Russland wird uns... 1942 January 687 Scope and Content Note 17x12 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Back to Germany we want to go, in Russia we will find nothing worthwhile.]. Drawing: German soldiers in a snow storm.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Kameraden, auf! Wir ziehen nach Haus! Hier ist's mit Hitlers... 1942 January 688 Scope and Content Note 17x12 cm - paper: green - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Comrades, Let's go! We want to go home! There will be no victory of Hitler]. Drawing: two German soldiers in a cemetery.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 71 1942 January 689 Scope and Content Note 18x24 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 71... Hitler's officers are shooting German soldiers...]. Photograph: German prisoners of war in a Russian camp. [A clean bed covered with white linen - what a pleasure after all the dirt and lice on the front line.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Rüstungsprogramm der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika... 1942 January 694 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Armament program of the United States of America... Hitler started the war against Soviet Russia without having defeated England. Now, when German troops have to accept one defeat after the other on the snow fields in Russia, Hitler, like a gambler, declared war on America... Do not die for Hitler but live for a free and prosperous Germany]
Box/Item No.: 1 : DIE WAHRHEIT ÜBER SOWJETRUSSLAND Nr. 1... 1942 February 695 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about Soviet Russia No.1 February 1942. The Soviet war industry is out of reach of the German Luftwaffe...]. Photograph: [Hitler is robbing these Soviet children of their happy childhood.]. Remark: A Soviet propagandist told me many years ago the leaflet series "The truth about Soviet Russia" had to be discontinued, because not enough positive news was available that Germans would have believed at that time.
Box/Item No.: 1 : SIE HABEN SICH GEFANGENGEGEBEN. Sie haben ihr Leben gerettet... 1942 January 696 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [They have surrendered. They saved their lives. They are feeling fine in Russia and in captivity...]. Two photographs.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 21 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Papi, wir warten auf Dich! Papi, wo bist Du?... 1942 January 697 Scope and Content Note 12x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Daddy, we are waiting for you! Daddy, where are you? German soldier! Hitler has stolen your family. He wants to make your children orphans. If you want to stay alive and embrace your wife and children again, save your life and come on over to us into captivity...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Letzte Nachrichten für die... 1942 January 706 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Latest news for German soldiers: The German people are rising to fight against Hitler. Opposition of German generals against Hitler. The reserves of the German Army are depleted...]. Photograph: German prisoners of war.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Keine Briefe aus der Heimat... 1942 January 707 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [No letters from home. German soldiers!... On Hitler's order letters, from your relatives are not being delivered. Why? ..]. Photograph: [Again no mail!]; drawing: [Back, to your home!"]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitlers Niederlage ist unausbleiblich... 1942 January 708 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's downfall is unavoidable... This is why the defeat of Hitler-Germany is unavoidable...]. Drawing: [We want to go back to Germany...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitler hat schuld am Krieg gegen Sowjetrussland... 1942 January 709 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is guilty of inciting the war against the Soviet-Union... It was Hitler and his clique who started the criminal war against Soviet Russia...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 68 1942 January 710 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 68... Declaration of the countries occupied by Germany on the punishment of Hitler-Fascists...]. Photomontage: many dead German soldiers: [At home they are waiting for letters from these dead German soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 73 1942 January 712 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 73 ... Nazis are afraid of the truth... German soldiers are afraid to fight...]. Photograph: [One of the many tanks the Germans had left behind when they retreated hastily.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 74 1942 January 713 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 74... Crisis in German High Command... German soldiers are surrendering...]. Photograph: [On their hasty retreat from Kaluga the Germans left behind complete trains loaded with war material. In the foreground a direct hit on this train is documented.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 22 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 75 1942 January 714 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 75 ... The German troops are fleeing in panic...]. Photograph: [German soldiers and officers are surrendering.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 76 1942 January 715 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 76... German generals against Hitler... How German soldiers perish...]. Photograph: [One of the German vehicles Russians destroyed during their advance.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 53 1942 January 716 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 53 ... German generals against Hitler... Demonstrations against Hitler in Germany...]. Caricature: [Hitler and Goebbels are changing propaganda slogans for their people.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 54 1942 January 717 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 54... Hitler is responsible for the defeat of the German Army...]. Photograph: Military cemetery for German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 55 1942 January 718 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 55... Germany's oil reserves are dwindling...]. Caricature: Hitler as Napoleon [The wind from the East]
Box/Item No.: 1 : BESTIMMUNGEN ÜBER KRIEGSGEFANGENE IN DER SOWJETUNION... 1942 January 720 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Orders on the treatment of prisoners of war in the Soviet-Union...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 70 1942 January 721 Scope and Content Note 13x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 70... Hitler murdered Generalfieldmarshal von Reichenau... The main enemy is Hitler-Germany]. Photograph: German POW
Box/Item No.: 1 : WER UNTERSCHLAGT DIE SOLDATENBRIEFE? Deutscher Soldat!... 1942 January 722 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Who is suppressing soldiers mail? ..]. Letters are being held back by German authorities and reasons are given. Photograph: [Again no mail!].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 56 1942 January 723 Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 56... Hitler murdered Generalfieldmarshal von Reichenau...]. Photograph: German POW reading "Front-Illustrierte."
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 23 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 71 1942 January 725 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 71... Hitler is beheading the German Army... The English Air Force is bombarding Hamburg]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Deutsche Soldaten an der Ostfront! In der Nähe von... 1942 January 726 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 4 - red - preservation: 1, edge slightly damaged. Description: [German soldiers on the Eastern Front..]. "Black" leaflet supposedly found by Red Army soldiers: Manifest of a [German Soldiers Committee].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 77 1942 January 727 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 77... Hitler is robbing the German Army of its leadership... Fascists don't allow contact by mail between soldiers and relatives... A desperate war...]. Photograph: [The Germans evacuated Kirov so fast, they left usable tanks. Here are some of these tanks.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 57 1942 January 728 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 57... Generalfieldmarshal List arrested, von Brauchitsch disappeared... How the German people are being robbed]. Photomontage: [The German soldiers pay for Hitler's mistakes...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 72 1942 January 729 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 72... Hitler's repressions against German generals... Hitler has deceived the German people]. Two photographs.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Das Spiel ist verloren... 1942 January 730 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1 - 1.1942- description: [The play has been lost...]. Hitler is starting the war and his fate will be the same as Napoleon's. [... An instructive story in six episodes]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Zurück! Nach Deutschland!... 1942 January 731 Scope and Content Note 15x11 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Return! To Germany! The half-frozen destroyed German Army is on the retreat at the complete front...]. Drawing: German soldiers are retreating in snow storm
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 79 1942 January 732 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 79 ... Guard-troops are frightening Germans... He who will not surrender will perish...]. Drawing: German soldiers retreating in snow storm
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 79 1942 January 733 Scope and Content Note As above, reprint of 732, different code.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 24 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 73 1942 January 734 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 73 ... Hitler murdered Generalfieldmarshal von Reichenau...The people of America united in their fight against Hitler... Unity of English and Russian workers. The delegation of the Russian trade unions have been greeted with enthusiasm by the English workers...]. Photograph: [From all over the vast Soviet country charitable gifts arrive for the fighters at the front. Our picture shows Red Army soldiers in front of newly arrived gifts.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 58 1942 January 735 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 58 ... von Papen against Hitler... Typhoid epidemic in Germany... Advice to surrender...]. Photograph: Two German POWs are reading the Soviet leaflet magazine "Front-Illustrierte" [For the first time they are reading the truth about the situation of the Germany Army on the Soviet-German front.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Folge dem Beispiel dieser 10 Kameraden! DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! 1942 January 736 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Follow the example of these ten comrades! German soldiers! Listen to the voice of your comrades. They have realized it makes no sense to continue to fight and die for this unjust and useless war of Hitler... They write from their Russian captivity:...]. Photograph: Ten German soldiers in captivity.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 81 1942 January 745 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 81... Frost and lice are the worst enemies of the German soldier...]. Photograph: German POWs are playing music.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 82 1942 January 746 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 82... The Russians are beating and chasing the Germans...]. Photomontage: German tanks and dead soldiers on the snow.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 59 1942 January 747 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 59... Hitler is taking revenge on German generals...]. Photograph: [Goebbels has forbidden the German population to have Christmas trees. Only in Russian captivity the real German Christmas was celebrated.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 60 1942 January 748 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 60... The quarrel among Fascist leaders is growing... Despair is rampant in Germany...]. Photograph: German POWs in a Russian barbershop.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 25 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 74 1942 January 749 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 74... The Russians have toppled the German plans... Hitler lost his last strong point in front of Moscow... German and Italian troops have been beaten in the Cyreneica...] Photograph: German POW
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was hat Hitler der Versuch gekostet Moskau... 1942 January 750 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [How much did Hitler's attempt to occupy Moscow... 300,000 dead...1,100 airplanes destroyed..]. Drawing: Dead soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Der Betrüger und Lügner Hitler hat die... 1942 January 751 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler, the swindler and liar cheated the soldiers and the German people... From 6th December to 15th January the German army lost more than 300,000 dead soldiers and officers...]. Photomontage, see illustration: The friendly face of Hitler is hiding death.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Das russische Volk ist nicht zu besiegen! Als Hitler Sowjetrussland überfiel... 1942 753 January Scope and Content Note 14x2 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: The Russian people cannot be defeated! The Russian people fight for a just cause, for their home, and for a free life. This is the reason why the Red Army is beating and driving back continuously the German troops. This is the reason why the Red Army is producing heroes as no other Army in the world.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 82 1942 January 754 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 82... Brilliant success of the Red Army offensive... A sad song of German soldiers...]. Poem, text of the song "Tundra-Lied". The author of this song was Erich Weinert, a famous Communist and leaflet writer in Moscow. Code 753 is erroneously printed on this leaflet
Box/Item No.: 1 : SONDERMELDUNG Letzte Nachrichten für die deutschen Soldaten... 1942 January 755 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement. Latest news for German soldiers. New big Russian victory...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 83 1942 January 757 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 83 ... Enormous defeat of the German troops... Rich booty of the Red Army...] Photograph: graves of German soldiers, see illustration.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 75 1942 January 758 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 75 ... Catastrophic situation of the German Army...]. Photograph: [Christmas holidays in a POW-camp...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 26 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 61 1942 January 759 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 61... Inflation in Germany... Hunger revolts in Hamburg...]. Photograph: Each German POW can buy what he wants in the camp shop.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Die russischen Betriebe sind für die deutsche Luftwaffe unerreichbar… 1942 January 760 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [... The Russian factories cannot be reached by the Luftwaffe...]. Photomontage: [New Russian tanks reach the front]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitler hat die Schlachtvor Moskau... 1942 January 764 Scope and Content Note 22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler lost the battle for Moscow!... the defeat of Hitler is unavoidable...]. Photomontage: Dead Germans and destroyed tanks and cannon. [They trusted Hitler and paid with their lives, this end awaits everybody who trusts this insane Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Eine neue Lüge des Hitlerschen Oberkommandos... 1942 January 767 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [A new lie of Hitler's headquarters... Radio Berlin transmitted a message showing the mental confusion of the Hitlerites...]. Drawing: ["Reporting: the frontline is straightened..."]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Beute der Sowjettruppen... 1942 January 768 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Booty of Soviet troops on the central part of the front from 16th to 25th January, 1942...] Photograph: German tanks abandoned by Germans.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Millionen Deutsche setzen ihre Hoffnung... 1942 January 769 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green preservation: 1. Description: The Soviet government is reporting its troops are approaching the German border. [Millions of Germans place their hope on the victory of the Red Army. German soldiers! The truth about the advance of the Red Army to the German border cannot be kept secret...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Das Deutsche Hinterland ist unbeständig... 1942 January 772 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The German hinterland is unsafe. German soldier! Hitler intends to leave your family, your wife, and children without clothing and shoes...]. Drawing: war cripple, his wife and child.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 85 1942 January 774 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 85 January 1942... Hitler's campaign against Russia has failed... The war will not end soon if we do not make an end with Hitler...]. Photograph: German POWs singing Christmas chorals.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 27 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitler betrügt Dich... 1942 January 775 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is cheating you. German soldier! ... The Red Army is encircling German fortifications everywhere, is destroying technical equipment and is liquidating living beings of the enemy...]. Photograph: destroyed German tanks.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 76 1942 January 776 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 76 January... Preparation of a new European front against Germany...]. Photograph: German POWs are playing chess.
Box/Item No.: 1 : 9 Jahre Lug und Trug. Deutsche Arbeiter im Soldatenrock! Durch Betrug und 778 Demagogie hat... 1942 January Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Nine years of lies and cheating... German workers in soldier's uniform!... A group of German soldiers.]. Identical drawings by Erich Weinert, see the three following leaflets.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Zehn Jahre Zuchthausregime in Deutschland… 1942 January 780 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Ten years of penitentiary regime in Germany German soldier!... Nobody is safe from the Gestapo... A group of German soldiers.]. Identical drawings by Erich Weinert, see the two following leaflets.
Box/Item No.: 1 : 9 Jahre Hitlermacht - die ganze Welt gegen... 1942 January 781 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description: [Nine years of Hitler in power - all the world against Germany!... Make an end with Hitler ... A group of German soldiers.]. Identical drawings, see the following leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 1 : 9 Jahre Hitlerjahre - Neun Jahre Bauernjoch... 1942 January 782 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Nine years of Hitler in power - Nine years of peasant's trickery Comrades!. .. Make an end to the war ... A group of German soldiers...]. Identical drawings, see the three leaflets above.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 86 1942 January 783 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 86 January 1942... A new lie of Hitler's command...]. Two photographs: [On their retreat the Germans have left valuable war material behind.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 77 1942 January 784 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 77 January... Hitler is retreating in the same way as Napoleon...]. Photograph: German POWs are being paid their wages].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 28 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 62 1942 January 785 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 62 January... Epidemics are decimating the German people... Germany is bleeding to death...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [These children are waiting in vain for their father... Hitler sent him to death.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 78 1942 January 786 Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 78 January 1942... American troops are landing in Great Britain... A great many American troops have arrived including artillery and tanks... English air attack on Berlin... The Red Army is stronger than Hitler's Army...J. Photograph: German POWs are reading "Front-Illustrierte"]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 79 1942 January 787 Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: Code 307 erroneously printed on leaflet - [News from Foreign Countries No. 79… The Russian victories destabilize Hitler's regime…]. The famous German writer in American exile, Lion Feuchtwanger, is quoted extensively on this leaflet. Photograph: German POWs are frequenting their club.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 87 1942 January 788 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 87... The Red army is advancing... A death sentence for the German soldier...]. Photograph: German POWs in a Russian barber shop. [Well shaved - feeling good]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Durch den Eintritt Amerikas in den Krieg ist die Vernichtung... 1942 January 789 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description: [The entry of America into the war has decided the destruction of Hitler Germany...]. Diagram: American war production.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 88 1942 January 791 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 88 January 1942... German troops are retreating in the way Napoleon did...]. Photograph: German war material left behind
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 80 1942 January 793 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 80... American troops landing in Great Britain... How the German soldiers surrender...]. Photograph: German POWs in the camp's club.
Box/Item No.: 1 : SONDERMELDUNG Die russischen Truppen der Südost... 1942 January 794 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 1.1942 - description: [Special news. The Russian troops of the South-East and the South-Front occupied the cities Barwenkovo and Losowaja.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 29 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 89 1942 January 800 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 89 January 1942... The Russians penetrated German fortifications...]. Photograph: [Tanks abandoned by Germans during their hasty retreat.]. The tanks on the photograph are model T-34, Russian made.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 64 1942 February 801 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 64... Appeal to the German people. In Germany an appeal is being disseminated, hand by hand, containing 60 signatures of famous German writers, artists, former deputies and labor union functionaries...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 81 1942 February 802 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 81... Sending American troops to Europe... Topple Hitler - save Germany. Appeal to the German people by 60 German writers...]. Photograph: German POWs in the club of their camp are writing letters to their relatives.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Hitlers Niederlage vor Moskau - der Beginn der endgültigen Vernichtung... 1942 805 February Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's defeat in front of Moscow - the beginning of the final destruction of Hitler-Fascism...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 82 1942 February 806 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 82 February... The Russians drive the Germans from Soviet soil... English delivery of weapons for Russia...]. Photograph: German POWs are decorating a Christmas tree.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 90 1942 February 807 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 90 February... The Red Army is driving the Germans out of Ukraine...]. Photograph: German POWs are writing their camp newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Mitteilungen für die Truppe Nr. 204 1942 February 810 Scope and Content Note 19x28 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of "black" leaflet newspaper: [High Command of the Wehrmacht... Wehrmachtpropaganda.. The war and the war profiteers... The USA is re-arming]. As camouflage an instruction pamphlet of the German Wehrmacht was used. The Russian version is signed [The Soldiers Committee Fighting for Peace]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 91 1942 February 812 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 91... Hitler is sending his last reserves to certain death... A German soldier is killing two of his officers. The German soldier was beaten by his company commander because he had read Soviet leaflets... This soldier killed his two officers and surrendered to the Russians...]. Photograph: Germans left barrels filled with Gasoline when they fled.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 30 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 65 1942 February 813 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 65 ... Hitler has gone bankrupt...]. Photograph: Hitler's soldiers do not want to freeze, they surrender.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 92 1942 February 815 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 92... The German soldier wants to go home...]. Photograph: Germans left cannon behind when they fled.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 66 1942 February 816 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 66... The wives of soldiers do not want to hear Hitler's lies... Germany is bleeding to death... Demand your return home...]. Photograph: German POWs perform a theater play in their camp.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 84 1942 February 817 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 84... Hitler is conceding Russian superiority in numbers...]. Photograph: German POWs are writing notes for their camp newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 85 1942 February 819 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 85 ... The Russians destroyed the legend of the invincibility of the German Army...]. Photograph: German POWs are decorating a Christmas tree in their camp.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 67 1942 February 820 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 67... Hitler is giving orders to go hungry for four days per week...]. Photograph: German POWs are writing a poster.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 94 1942 February 821 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 94... Mutiny of soldiers in a German division... The threats of officers are in vain...]. Photograph of graves of German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 682 1942 February 822 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 68 ... The radio station "Free Germany" is unveiling Hitler's lies... Former Nazis against Hitler... Otto Straßer...]. Photograph: German POWs and a Russian officer.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 31 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 86 1942 February 823 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 86... Russian and English workers are united in the war against Hitler...]. Photograph: German POW with lice
Box/Item No.: 1 : Protest deutscher Kriegsgefangener gegen die bestialische Behandlung der 824 sowjetischen... 1942 February Scope and Content Note 30x47 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1, damage on edge, no loss of text - 2.1942 - description: [protest of German POWs against the bestial treatment of Soviet POWs by German authorities...]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 69 1942 February 825 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 69... Goebbels is making fun of soldier's wives...]. Photomontage: [The luck of their family is buried here].
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 87 1942 February 826 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 87... A defeat not known in German history..]. Photograph: parade of Polish troops on Russian soil...
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 88 1942 February 827 Scope and Content Note 14x21cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 88... Iran is united with Russia and England against Hitler...]. Photograph: German POWs at work in their camp.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 96 1942 February 830 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 96... For Russian tanks no obstacle exists... Hitler is throwing his last reserves into battle... disintegration of German troops...]. Photograph: a German bus was captured.
Box/Item No.: 1 : DIE WAHRHEIT ÜBER SOWJETRUSSLAND Nr. 2 February 1942... 1942 February 831 Scope and Content Note 16x23cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [The truth about Soviet Russia No.2 February 1942... The Red Army soldier is surrounded by the love and care of his whole country... The Red Army soldier is excellently clothed. This is a sign of the care the government is taking for their warriors...]. Photograph: gifts for Russian soldiers arrive at the front.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Bankrott des deutschen Oberkommandos... 1942 February 832 Scope and Content Note 14x23cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Bankruptcy of the German High Command... Conquering Russia never ever happened. The Russian campaign broke the neck of Napoleon and Wilhelm II...]. Photomontage: Himmler is reporting to Hitler: four generals have been dealt with, the others are under surveillance.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 32 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 89 1942 February 833 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 89... The workers of Russia and England are calling the occupied people to fight against Hitler-Fascism...]. Photograph: German soldiers and officers are surrendering.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 71 1942 February 834 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 71... German people no longer believe the "beloved" Hitler... 75 suicides in one town...]. Photograph: German POWs on their way to their club.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 97 1942 February 835 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 97... Heavy losses weakened the German Army...]. Photograph: German cemetery.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Die Hitleroffiziere sind die Mörder der deutschen Soldaten 1942 February 838 Scope and Content Note 13x18cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's officers are the murderers of their soldiers... German soldiers want to go home! Hitler's officers prevent this... Where is the way out? ...] Drawing by Erich Weinert: a German soldier is surrendering
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 98 1942 February 839 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 98... German soldiers are being sent to their death... The Russian air force is destroying German fortifications... German soldiers tell the truth about Hitler... Soviet commissars are the friends of German POWs...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 72 1942 February 840 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 72... How Hitler is cheating the German people... The hysterical howling of Goebbels...]. Photograph: [Goebbels prohibited Christmas trees for the German population. Only in Russian captivity real German Christmas could be celebrated.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 90 1942 February 841 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 90... Hitler's last reserves are thrown into battle... Italian soldiers against the Germans]. Photograph: German POWs are buying whatever they want in their shop.
Box/Item No.: 1 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 99 1942 February 842 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 99... Heavy German losses on the Soviet-German front...]. Photograph: vehicles left behind during German retreat.
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Box/Item No.: 1 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 73 1942 February 843 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 73... Mysterious death of Todt (German Minister for Armament and Munitions)...]. Photograph: [German POWs in a camp.]
Box/Item No.: 1 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 91 1942 February 844 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 91... Minister Todt murdered by Gestapo...]. Photograph: German POWs frozen, dirty and worn down.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 92 1942 February 846 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Paper: rose - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 92... One million pilots in the USA...]. Photograph: a Soviet Commissar is lighting the cigarette of a German POW.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 100 1942 February 847 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 100... Russians liberated 4880 towns from the Germans...]. Photograph: cannon left behind during German retreat.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 74 1942 February 848 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 74... The murder of Todt (Minister for Armament and Munitions) is a blow for Göring... Hitler in the footsteps of Wilhelm II...]. Photograph: [German POWs are playing chess.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Napoleons Los in Russland erwartet auch Hitler. Die deutschen Behörden... 1942 849 February Scope and Content Note 10x13 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Napoleon's fate in Russia is also the fate of Hitler. German authorities prohibit the use of Napoleon's name in schools. HITLER: I will not allow mentioning my campaign against Moscow...]. Drawing: Hitler is climbing a ladder intending to post a sign on Napoleon's effigy "Verboten!!!" [Not allowed]
Box/Item No.: 2 : "Westen können im äußersten Fall aus mehreren Schichten Zeitungspapier 851 hergestellt werden"... 1942 February Scope and Content Note 13x20cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: ["Vests can be made in an emergency from layers of newspapers."]. The leaflet is making fun of an order of the German General Staff. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Hitler's latest winter clothing for German troops]. Poem by Erich Weinert: [Russian Song of the German soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 101 1942 February 854 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 101... Discipline in the German Army is deteriorating...]. Photograph: dead German soldiers on a snow field in Russia.
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Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 93 1942 February 855 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 93 We will do anything possible to destroy Hitlerism definitely... Roosevelt…]. Photograph: German POWs are playing mandolins.
Box/Item No.: 2 : 765 deutsche Kriegsgefangene Soldaten... 1942 February 857 Scope and Content Note 22x31 cm 2 - paper: red - preservation: 2, no loss of text. Description: [765 German prisoners of war are following the appeal of the first meeting of German prisoners of war...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 102 1942 February 858 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 102... The German Army is bleeding to death...]. Photograph: dead German soldiers in a cemetery.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 94 1942 February 860 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 94... The Russian Army is undefeatable...]. Photograph: German POWs in their club at their camp.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 103 1942 February 865 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 103... Russian Air Force is bombarding retreating German troops...]. Photograph: cannon left behind during German retreat.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 95 1942 February 866 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description of newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 95... English tanks played a major role in destructing Hitler in front of Moscow...]. Photograph: German POWs at work
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 76 1942 February 867 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 76... In spring Germany will bleed to death...]. Photograph: [German POWs are visiting their club].
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 104 1942 February 868 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 104... Hitler employs his last reserves...]. Photomontage: German cemetery. [They all died in Hitler's predatory war.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 96 1942 February 869 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 96... Building up of a front in the West. American troops are arriving in England...]. Photograph: [German POWs are visiting their club]
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Box/Item No.: 2 : An das sudetendeutsche Volk... 1942 February 870 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [To the people of Sudeten...]. The addressees of this leaflet had been Sudeten-Germans living in Czechoslovakia
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 77 1942 February 871 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 77... In Berlin there are talks of the necessity to topple Hitler...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Der russische Soldat ist im Kampf um seine gerechte Sache unbesiegbar... 1942 872 February Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description: [The Russian soldier is invincible in his fight for a just cause. Frightening and unlimited is the hate of the freedom loving Russian people who have risen like one man to defend their homes... The hour of revenge is near...]. Photograph: [New Russian tanks are reaching the front line.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 97 1942 February 874 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 97... The Russians have already won the biggest battle in the histories of wars...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [He is the guilty one!]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 78 1942 February 875 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 78... Anti-war demonstrations in Munich...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Fragen, die Hitler unbeantwortet gelassen hat… 1942 February 876 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Questions Hitler did not answer... How many German men and women who have not yet lost their faith in Hitler had been listening for his speech on 30th January to receive an answer to their most pressing questions... No answer is an answer too...]. The British "black" radio station "Gustav Siegfried" is mentioned. Cartoon: Hitler is hiding behind a speaker's platform.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 106 1942 February 881 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 106... Defeat of German troops... This is the way honest people act...]. Report of a German pilot who deserted with his airplane to the Russians. Photograph: [They did the right thing: laid down their arms and surrendered to the Red Army.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 79 1942 February 883 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 79... The German people are against the war... Why General Udet was murdered? The "black" German (sic!) radio transmitter "Gustav Siegfried I" declared... Oberst Mölders...]. The Soviet leaflet is quoting a British "black" radio station which is supposedly transmitting from inside Germany. Drawing.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 36 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in... 1942 February 886 Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The German soldiers are having a good time in Russian captivity...]. Photograph: German POWs in a barbershop. NOTE: The following eight leaflets, code 886 to 893 and 915, show the same safe conduct and headline "Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft gut" [The German soldiers are having a good time in Russian captivity]. The different photographs and captions of each leaflet are described below.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft gut... 1942 887 February Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Photograph: German POWs in a reading room.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in... 1942 February 888 Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description: - photograph: [German POWs are sleeping in clean beds and covered by warm blankets]. The photograph is an apparent forgery!
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in... 1942 February 889 Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Photograph: German POWs are reading "Front-Illustrierte."
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in... 1942 February 890 Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Photograph: German POWs are playing chess.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in... 1942 February 891 Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Photograph: German POWs are buying in a shop.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft gut... 1942 892 February Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - photograph: German POWs are playing music.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft gut... 1942 893 February Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Photograph: German POWs are preparing a newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 80 1942 February 894 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 80... The fate of general Guderian...]. Photograph: German POWs are writing letters to their relatives.
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Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 99 1942 February 895 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 99... The Russians destroyed Hitler's legend about the invincibility of the Germans...]. Photograph: German POWs are playing chess.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 107 1942 February 896 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 107... Germans in panic retreat...]. Photograph: [Vehicles left by hastily retreating Germans.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 81 1942 February 897 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 81... Hitler is the henchman of the Austrian people...]. Photograph: dead German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Nachrichten von der Front Nr. 108 1942 February 898 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 108... Successful Russian offensive...]. Photograph: German POWs in a meeting.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 100 1942 February 899 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 100... New American loan for Russia... Appeal of 765 German soldiers...]. Photograph: A group of German prisoners of war.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben… 1942 February 903 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of No. 1 of the new series of Soviet leaflet newspapers: [How the prisoners of war are living in Soviet Russia No.1 .February 1942... How it happened I became a POW…]. Photograph: A group of German POWs in their reading room. Poem by Erich Weinert published under the pseudonym Werner Wergin.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 82 1942 February 905 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 82... Hitler is exterminating the male population of Germany... Epidemic typhus in Germany...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Germany during Hitler's war]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 83 1942 February 906 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 83 ... Hitler is afraid of a revolution of his people...]. Drawing by E. Weinert.
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Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 109 1942 February 907 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 109... Successful advancement of Red Army... German troops in flight…] Photograph: [German soldiers and officers are surrendering.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 110 1942 February 908 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 110... The Russians destroy German fortifications...]. Photomontage: [German retreat]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 101 1942 February 909 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 101... Silly complaints from the "Racial Observer"... Attack of the American fleet on Japanese strong points...]. Photograph: [American airplanes at the Russian front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 102 1942 February 910 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 102... Hitler's new bluff... Hitler's defeat is unavoidable...]. Photograph: [German POWs are playing chess.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Der Oberbefehlshaber Hitler... 1942 February 911 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Commander in chief Hitler is going to ruin the German army...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [A German soldier is accusing Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Sie entehren die deutsche Armee... 1942 February 912 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 2, edge damaged, no loss of text. Description: [They dishonor the German army...]. Atrocities of the German army... [We have read the note of Foreign Minister Molotow... especially the SS...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die Lage Deutschlands ist heute schlimmer als im ersten Weltkrieg... 1942 February 913 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Germanys situation is worse than in WWI... Hitler is cheating you! The First World War lasted for four years. It ended with the complete breakdown of Germany... Today the situation is worse than in WWI... Soldiers on the front! You have the weapons... Hitler started the war. You must end it...]. Photograph: [Beaten German troops on retreat.]. Note the new safe conduct with red flag, this type was used only shortly.
Box/Item No.: 2 : 9 Jahre Hitlerherrschaft brachten Deutschland an den Rand des Abgrunds… 1942 914 February Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Nine years of Hitler in power brought Germany at the edge of a precipice... The tenth year of Hitler in power must be the year of his downfall!...]. Identical drawings by Erich Weinert, see above.
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Box/Item No.: 2 : Die deutschen Soldaten haben es in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft gut... 1942 915 February Scope and Content Note 15x12 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The German soldiers are having a good time...]. Layout and reverse are identical with leaflets code 886 to 893 but have different photographs and captions. Photograph: German POW writing a letter to his loved ones at home.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 111 1942 February 916 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 111... Encirclement of German troops... Stalin on the surrender of German soldiers and officers...]. Photograph: [Graves of German soldiers in Soviet Russia.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 103 1942 February 917 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 103 ... General Douglas MacArthur on the Red Army... Ernest Hamingway (sic!): "Everybody, who loves freedom, is indebted to the Red Army, which can never be paid."]. Photograph: [More than 3,000 vehicles the Germans have left behind...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die Rote Armee besiegte stets die auslandischen Interventen und... 1942 February 918 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The Red Army always defeated foreign interveners and invaders...]. Photograph: German POWs are preparing a wall-newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Stalin über das Verhältnis der Roten Armee zum deutschen Volk... 1942 February 919 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin on his relation with the Red Army and the German people... The Hitlers come, the Hitlers go, the German people, the German state, will remain...]. Photograph: German POWs are reading "Front-Illustrierte."
Box/Item No.: 2 : Das Kommando der Roten Armee garantiert den Kriegsgefangenen Leben... 1942 920 February Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description: [The Command of the Red Army is guaranteeing prisoners of war their life and safe return... If the enemy does not surrender he will be destroyed...]. Photograph: German POWs are playing chess.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wir kämpfen nicht gegen das deutsche Volk, sondern gegen die Hitlerschen... 1942 921 February Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [We do not fight against the German people but against the Hitler-invaders...]. Photograph: German POWs are playing mandolins.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die Rote Armee hegt keinen Hass gegen das deutsche Volk... 1942 February 922 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 2.1942 - description: [The Red Army has no hate against the German people...]. Photograph: German POWs in a barber shop.
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Box/Item No.: 2 : WEISST DU, WOFÜR DU KÄMPFST? Deutscher Soldat! Hitler und seine... 1942 923 February Scope and Content Note 14x20 - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Do you know, what you are fighting for?... German soldiers! You are forced to fight this war. You are a worker or peasant. You don't need this war...]. Photograph: German POWs reading.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die endgültige Niederlage ist unausbleiblich. Deutsche Soldaten! Nachdem... 1942 924 February Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The final defeat of the German Army is unavoidable…]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 84 1942 February 925 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 84... Opposition of German industrialists against Hitler... Inflation in Germany...]. Photograph: bakery in a POW camp.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 104 1942 February 926 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 104... Stalin on the aims of the patriotic war... The German soldier has no honorable aim of war...]. Photograph: [A German POW orchestra is playing folk songs.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : BEFEHL des Volkskommissars... Stalin... 1942 February 927 Scope and Content Note 27x32 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Order of the Peoples Commissar for defense February 23, 1942 No. 55 Moscow... J. Stalin]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten. Sondermeldung... 1942 February 930 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: this edition is printed without a running number. [News from the Front. Special Edition...The 16th German Army encircled by Russian troops...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 85 1942 February 931 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 85 ... The fairytales of Goebbels have been proven wrong... Hitler is extinguishing the male population of Germany...]. Photograph: [German POWs are on their way to their club.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 112 1942 February 932 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 112... The 16th German Army encircled near Staraja Russa by Russian troops... German officers are killing their soldiers...]. Photograph: [Tanks abandoned by the Germans during their hasty retreat]. The tanks on the photograph are model T-34 of Soviet manufacture.
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Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 105 1942 February 933 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 105... The President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt is congratulating the Red Army...]. Photograph: [The Germans say they are retreating methodically but why do they abandon complete guns?]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 106 1942 February 934 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 106... The German Army in catastrophe... Racial hatred is punishable by Soviet law...]. Photograph: POWs at work
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die Rote Armee drängt die Deutschen immer mehr nach Westen ab... 1942 February 937 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [... The Red Army is pushing Germans farther and farther to the West...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Eine Gruppe deutscher Soldaten geht mit einer Rot-Front-Fahne zu den Russen 940 über... 1942 February Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [A group of German soldiers is deserting to the Russians with the help of a Red-Front-Flag... As a sign of our solidarity with the Red Army we brought this Red Front Flag with us. The flag of the German Antifascists fighting to topple Hitler, to end the war, for a good friendship with the great Russian people...]. Photograph: as evidence of this extraordinary and unbelievable story the leaflet presents the illustration of the flag and writes: [Here, you can see this flag.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 2 1942 February 945 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How POWs are living in Soviet Russia... The second meeting of German POWs in Soviet Russia...]. Photograph: German POWs are working in a tailor shop.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 113 1942 February 946 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 113... Heavy blows of the Red Army against German troops... Soldiers Committees in the German Army. The clandestine radio station...]. Photograph: heavy guns, Germans abandoned when retreating.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 86 1942 February 947 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 86... Hitler continues to cheat the German people...]. Photograph: POWs are writing letters to their relatives.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 107 1942 February 948 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 107... It is Russia's aim to dislodge the invaders... The English people are celebrating the 24th Red Army anniversary..]. Photograph: [German POWs are playing chess.]
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Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 114 1942 March 955 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 114... The Red Army is chasing the German invaders from Russian soil... German soldiers are surrendering by the hundreds...]. Photograph: a Soviet Commissar is lighting the cigarette for a German POW
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 108 1942 March 956 Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 108... All over the Soviet country the victorious red flags will be shown again ... Deadly blood-letting of the German Army...]. Photograph: [German POWs at work]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 87 1942 March 957 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 87... Hitler will not succeed to cheat the German people...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: A German cripple, his wife and daughter
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 115 1942 March 967 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 115... Destruction of German and Rumanian divisions... A German officer on Russian Commissars... They did not torture, beat me, nor did they cut out my eyes...]. Photograph: German soldiers on their way to captivity.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 109 1942 March 968 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 109... The Red Army has an honorable and magnificent aim of war... Goebbels has turned to become a pessimist...]. Photograph: German POWs sleeping quarters. [White covered linen in a camp of prisoners of war. What a delight after all the dirt and lice in the front line]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 116 1942 March 973 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 116...Successful offensive of the Red Army...] Photograph: vehicles the Germans had abandoned.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 110 1942 March 974 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 110... The English are landing troops on the French coast... An operation to prepare a new front in the West against Hitler soon...]. Photograph: German soldiers have laid down their arms.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 89 1942 March 975 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 89. Hitler is a vampire on the body of the German people…]. Photograph: German cemetery in Russia.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 43 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben, Nr. 3 1942 March 976 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How POWs are living in Soviet Russia, Nr. 3... Meeting of German POWs in camp No. 95...]. Photograph: German POWs are singing.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 111 1942 March 977 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 111... An attempt on the life of von Papen in Ankara...]. Photograph: a group of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 117 1942 March 978 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... The situation of the encircled German 16th Army is hopeless... German officers are intimidating their soldiers...]. Photograph: a German cemetery.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 90 1942 March 979 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 90... The Nazis are afraid of the discontent of the people...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: Cripple and SS-man with his wife.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 118 1942 March 980 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 118... Mighty blows of the Red Army against German troops...]. Photograph: abandoned German vehicles.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 112 1942 March 981 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Code 967 erroneous. [News from Foreign Countries No. 112... 30 million Russian and English workers are calling to fight against Hitler...]. Photograph: German POWs in a reading room.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 91 1942 March 982 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 91... Fuel shortage in Germany... The peasants will place their demands before Hitler... "Soon there will be no men left in our village." This is what the wife of a German soldier is writing to her husband...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [He is the guilty one!].
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 4 1942 March 983 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No.4... The Russians are treating us very humanely...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! Ihr verteidigt nicht Deutschland sondern führt einen... 1942 984 March Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! You are not defending Germany here but...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 44 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Das Sowjetvolk hatte nicht die Absicht... 1942 March 986 Scope and Content Note 12x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! The Soviet people did not have the intention to force its social system on Germany...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! HITLER IST NICHT DEUTSCHLAND!... 1942 March 987 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Hitler is not Germany!... As long as only one German soldier is on Soviet soil the war will not end...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Auf Hitlers... 1942 March 988 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! On Hitler's order you have invaded a country which had been Russian territory for...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten 1942 March 989 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... The Red Army is not an enemy of the German people...]. Photograph: [The half-frozen beaten German Army is on the entire front retreating.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Die Rote Armee jagt die deutschen Truppen... 1942 March 990 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! The red Army is chasing the German troops...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 113 1942 March 993 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 113... English troops landed on the French coast...]. Photograph: German POWs lay down there arms.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 92 1942 March 994 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 92... Labour unrest in Düsseldorf... German people are cursing Hitler and his war...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Think about your child!]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 119 1942 March 995 Scope and Content Note 14x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 119... The Russians are encircling and destroying the German-Fascist invaders...]. Photograph: [These are the new American tanks reaching the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 114 1942 March 996 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 114... In spring Hitler will have a new front, the Western front…]. Photograph: German POWs write letters to their relatives.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 45 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 93 1942 March 997 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 93... The German economy is not able to supply the material for the spring offensive...]. Photograph: a Soviet commissar is lighting the cigarette for a German POW.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 121 1942 March 998 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 121... A German pilot is deserting to the Red Army... I must say my welcome was warm and friendly...]. Photograph: a group of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben, Nr. 5 1942 March 999 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No.5... In Russian captivity I have experienced what real humanity means...]. Photograph: A Soviet commissar is lighting the cigarette for a German POW
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 115 1942 March 1000 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 115... Arrival of new American troops in England...]. Photograph: [These are the new American tanks reaching the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 94 1942 March 1002 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 94... German traffic is without fuel]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German cripple, his wife and daughter.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 116 1942 March 1004 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 3.1942 - description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 116... Hitler's hope for the spring offensive has already failed... Soviet Russia knows how to defeat Hitler...]. Photograph: a group of German POWs are surrendering.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 122 1942 March 1005 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 122... Russians clean their soil from the German invaders...]. Photograph: A group of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 95 1942 March 1006 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 95 ... Increasing dissatisfaction in Berlin... The Nazis are stealing soldier's letters...]. Photograph: Cemetery.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 117 1942 March 1007 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 117... Spring will bring the defeat of Hitler-Germany... Soviet Russia knows how to defeat Hitler... America has built six new battle ships]. Photomontage: abandoned German tanks and vehicles.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 46 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Mitteilungen für die Truppe Nr. 204 1942 March 1008 Scope and Content Note 19x31 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [High command of the Wehrmacht News for the Troops No. 204 March 1942...]. The Soviet "black" leaflet is on the first glance a pamphlet containing material for the instruction of German soldiers. [... We have to trust the Führer blindly... What will spring have in store for us?... For what are "Iron Crosses" being awarded?...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 118 1942 March 1010 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 118... Hitler-Germany is condemned to defeat... German-Americans against Hitler...]. Photomontage: [New Russian tanks arrive at the front].
Box/Item No.: 2 : Das ist der Schuldige am Tode von 30,000 deutschen Soldaten! 1942 March 1011 Scope and Content Note 17x25 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [He is responsible for the death of 30,000 German soldiers!...]. Photomontage: [General von Busch - the guilty one...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 123 1942 March 1012 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 3.1942. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 123... The German generals are afraid of the truth...]. Photograph: German POWs are surrendering.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 7 1942 March 1013 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No.7... The Russians are treating us very well...]. Photograph: meeting of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 96 1942 March 1014 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 96... Not enough weapons in Germany...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 119 1942 March 1015 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 119... Hitler's spring bluff…]. Photograph: [German POWs are playing chess].
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 124 1942 March 1016 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 124... The Russians are cleaning their Land from the German invaders...]. Photograph: German POWs are writing letters.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 97 1942 March 1017 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 97... The German people are cursing Hitler and his war... illegal anti-fascist agitation in Germany...]. Photograph: [POW-orchestra].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 47 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1020 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! J. Stalin, the Peoples Commissar for Defence said in his speech to the Red Army on 23rd February...]. Photograph and caption: German POWs report about the lies they had been told about Soviet commissars and now realize the difference. NOTE: Leaflets 1020-1028 have the same safe conduct and headline: "Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, der Volkskommissar..." followed by different quotes from Stalin's speech on February 23, 1942. The different photographs and captions are described.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1021 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: German POWs are fed a well tasting, fat, and nourishing meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1022 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: German POWs are fed a well tasting, fat, and nourishing meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1023 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: German POW is writing a letter to his relatives after having a good meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1024 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: Willi Bredel, the well known communist writer, is talking to German POWs from Hamburg.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1025 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: German POWs are going to have a rest after having been washed and deloused.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1026 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: German POWs are going for a walk after their meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1027 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: A Russian doctor is treating a German POW.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten! J. STALIN, Der Volkskommissar für Verteidigung... 1942 March 1028 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of photograph and caption: German POWs are reporting their first impressions in Russian captivity.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 48 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 125 1942 March 1029 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 125... Big Russian successes... Hitler is chasing the workers of his war industry to the front...]. Photograph: German POWs at a meeting: [Here they can at last voice their opinion freely for the first time].
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 8 1942 March 1030 Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No.8... The Russians gave me back my life... Stalin's words are true.] Photograph: German POWs are listening to phonograph records.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 98 1942 March 1031 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 98... Hitler had prepared the war against Russia a long time ago...]. Photograph: a group of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 120 1942 March 1032 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 120... Attacks by the English Air Force... appeal by German-Americans to the German people...]. Photograph: German POWs are queuing up for reading material.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 126 1942 March 1035 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 126... Mighty blows of the Red Army against German troops...]. Photograph: German POWs at work.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 121 1942 March 1036 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 121... 44th bombardment of the Krupp factories... Does it pay to continue?...]. Photograph: German POWs are playing mandolins.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 99 1942 March 1037 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 99... The German people are raising to fight against Hitler... Protest of the bishop of Berlin against the misdeeds of the Gestapo...]. Drawing of Erich Weinert: a German cripple, his wife and daughter.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 127 1942 March 1039 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 127...The Red Army is pushing the Germans to the West... German soldiers and officers are surrendering in groups]. Photograph: German troops abandoned canon on their hastily retreat.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 49 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 122 1942 March 1040 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 122]. Roosevelt speaking on the weapons and loan program. Photograph: US tanks are reaching the Eastern front.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 100 1942 March 1041 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 100... Unbearable workload in German factories...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: a German soldier is accusing Hitler.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 9 1942 March 1042 Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No.9... A day in a prisoners of war camp...] - Photograph: German POWs are writing collective letters.].
Box/Item No.: 2 : An alle Kameraden der deutschen Wehrmacht Am 4. März 1942 gaben sich... 1942 1043 March Scope and Content Note 17x17 cm - 4 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [To all comrades of the German Wehrmacht. On March 4, 1942, German soldiers surrendered... They had Stalin's order with them...] Two photographs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : An alle deutschen Offiziere und... 1942 March 1044 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [To all German officers and soldiers...]. Appeal of German POWs. Photograph: German POWs are signing the appeal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 128 1942 March 1045 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 128... German troops which do not surrender will be annihilated...]. Photograph: meeting of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 129 1942 March 1046 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 129... The Russian offensive is continuing... The words of Stalin are the absolute truth...]. Photograph: Germans are surrendering.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 123 1942 March 1047 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 123…The Russians made Hitler's plan for a spring offensive obsolete…Spring will bring Hitler a new front, the Western front...]. Photograph: German POWs are discussing an appeal addressed to their comrades at the front.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 50 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 124 1942 March 1048 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 124... The war aim of the Russian people is guaranteed by Stalin... England's armament is increasing dramatically...] Photograph: German POWs are writing notes for their wall newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 101 1942 March 1049 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... German workers are rising to fight against the war... Hitler-fascism is undermining the German youth...]. Photograph: a group of German POWs are being received by the Russians with
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? No. 101 1942 March 1050 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 101... Protest of the Bishop of Münster against persecution of Catholics...]. Photograph: a Russian doctor is treating the wound of a German POW.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Zur neuen Lüge des Berliner Rundfunks... 1942 March 1051 Scope and Content Note 18x25 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [About the new lies of Radio Berlin...]. A German victory is being reported but the Soviet Service of Information is emphatically denying this. Poem, author unknown. Caricature: [Goebbels sits in the shelter over there...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. l0 1942 March 1052 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 10... Seven months in Russian captivity... A German soldier is welcoming Stalin's order...]. Photograph: German POWs will have a rest after having been bathed and deloused...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Soldatenwahrheit gegen Nazilüge... 1942 March 1053 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth is being told by a soldier against Nazi-lies... German POWs are describing in a letter the good life in their camp.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Meine Antwort auf die Lügenmärchen... 1942 March 1054 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [My answer to propaganda fairytales about Russian captivity...] Facsimiles of POW statements.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 125 1942 March 1055 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 125... Hitler is leading the German Army to a catastrophe... Rumania refuses to supply cannon fodder... Anti-German demonstrations in Brazil...Unrest of German troops in France...]. Photograph: The German writer Willi Bredel is talking to German POWs.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 51 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 103 1942 March 1056 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 103... Work slower!... The Hitler-organization breeding vice... German officials are demanding of German girls to have babies from soldiers going back to the front... Many girls kill their babies born out of wedlock...]. Photograph: a group of German POW is talking laughingly with a Soviet commissar.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 130 1942 March 1057 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 130... The successful offensive of the Russians continues... The Russian Cossacks are frightening the German invaders]. Photograph: German soldiers in a meeting. [Here they can finally voice their opinion freely.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 126 1942 March 1061 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 126... The Russian Army is beating the German invaders... Soldiers from Berlin refuse to fight...]. Photograph: German POW writing home to his relatives.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 104 1942 March 1062 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 104... Berliners are calling for the deposal of Hitler...]. Göring caricature.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 132 1942 March 1063 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 132...The Russian Army is beating the German invaders... Soldiers from Berlin refuse to fight...]. Photograph: Russian soldier - German soldier [One is a blind tool in the hands of Hitler, the other knows what he is fighting for.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Gruss aus dem Gefangenenlager Nr. 2 1942 March 1067 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Greetings from the POW-camp No.2...] A poem and two drawings by Erich Weinert. [Our camp. Here we are sitting warm, here we are satisfied]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Gruss aus dem Gefangenenlager Nr. 3 1942 March 1068 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: Greetings from the POW-camp No. 3... A poem and two drawings by Erich Weinert. [The dream is over...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : AUFRUF der Konferenz kriegsgefangener Unteroffiziere der deutschen... 1942 March 1072 Scope and Content Note 20x28 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Appeal of the conference of non-commissioned officers of the Wehrmacht... To the German Army and the German people...]. Facsimile of appeal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Sie alle haben einen Wunsch… 1942 March 1073 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description: [They all have one wish - nothing but going home...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert. [Daddy, do come home!]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 52 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 11 1942 March 1075 Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 11... First impressions in Russian captivity... The commissars are lovely and educated men...] Photograph: German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 105 1942 March 1076 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 105... Austrian people against Hitler... Women are demonstrating in Dresden. The radio station "Free Germany" is reporting... Many children die because there is no medical help... The demonstration was dispersed by SS formations firing into the crowd...]. Caricature: [Göring is looking for fresh cannon fodder.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Der Rassenhass dient den Herrschenden. Den Schaffenden bringt er Verderben 1077 und... 1942 March Scope and Content Note 14x25 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Racial hatred is serving the ruling classes, it is bringing the working classes ruin and disgrace... In Germany one million have been sterilized... The "Stürmer" is poisoning the fantasy of the German youth with pornography]. Drawing: [This is Hitler's race-theory in reality.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Vorbei ist die Zeit der Erfolge Hitlers. Deutsche Soldaten! Die deutsche... 1942 March 1078 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Gone are the times of Hitler's success... The defeat of Hitler-Germany is unavoidable!...]. Drawing probably by Erich Weinert: [German soldier in a snow storm].
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 127 1942 March 1079 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 127... The Red Army destroyed the legend of invincibility of Hitler's Army...]. Photograph: German soldiers are surrendering.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 106 1942 March 1080 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 106... Who is enriching himself during the war?... Catholics against Hitler... Catholic Bishops Faulhaber, Wurm, Preilling, von Galen...]. Photograph: German POWs reading a wall newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 134 1942 March 1081 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... Health and morale of German soldiers have been badly shaken...]. Photograph: Russian commissar and a group of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten 1942 March 1083 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 128... The Soviet Japanese agreement... 500 English bombers attack Essen...]. Photograph: A Russian doctor is helping a wounded German soldier.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 53 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 12 1942 March 1084 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 12... How we can put an end to this war...] - Photograph: German POWs are being received with a well made, fat, nourishing meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 135 1942 March 1085 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 135... Russians encircle and destroy German fortifications...]. Photomontage: Dead German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 107 1942 March 1086 Scope and Content Note 13x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 107... Hitler is no longer talking about his spring-offensive...]. Photograph: German POWs going for a walk after their meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 136 1942 March 1088 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 136... Mighty Russian blows against German troops...]. Photograph: German cemetery.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 137 1942 March 1089 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 137... Rich booty of Russian troops.. .]. Photograph: A Soviet commissar is talking to German POWs...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. l08 1942 March 1090 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 108... Appeal of German anti-Fascist writers to the German people... Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Berthold Brecht...] Photograph: German POWs writing to their relatives at home.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 129 1942 March 1091 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 129... The fighting power of the German Army is undermined, its defeat is unavoidable... Break with Hitler who is leading you to perish... Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Berthold Brecht...]. Photograph: German soldiers are handing over their safe conducts.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 130 1942 March 1092 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 130... Hitler's allies refuse to be used as cannon fodder... 185,000 airplanes in the USA...]. Photograph: German POWs are signing an appeal.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 54 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? 1942 March 1093 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 109... Supply of foodstuff in Germany severely lowered... Not enough to live, too much to die...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Hitler is guilty for this misery]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 131 1942 March 1094 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 130... A well known American Catholic on the success of the Red Army...]. Hitler caricature: a Soviet tank is crushing Hitler.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 138 1942 March 1095 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the From No. 138... Russians are breaking the resistance of Germans...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldier is surrendering with leaflet in hand.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 139 1942 March 1099 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 139... Success of Russian troops on the Leningrad front...]. Photograph: German POWs are taking a walk.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 110 1942 March 1100 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 110. Soldiers wives are fighting for their rights...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [... Another widow and an orphan]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 14 1942 March 1101 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 14... The Russian commissars care for POWs...] Photograph: German POWs are laughingly talking with a Russian commissar.
Box/Item No.: 2 : WAS DEUTSCHE KRIEGSGEFANGENE SOLDATEN SAGEN... 1942 March 1102 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1.Description: [What German POWs tell German soldiers! report...]. Three German POWs are telling their stories. [In captivity I have learned to think...] Three portrait photographs of German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wenn der Feind sich nicht ergibt, wird er vernichtet Deutscher Soldat! Alle, die mit 1103 der... 1942 March Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [If the enemy will not surrender, he will be annihilated... If the enemy is laying down his arms, he will no longer be our enemy.] - Drawing by Erich Weinert: a German POW is surrendering.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 55 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 140 1942 March 1106 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 140... Mighty Russian blows against fascist troops...] Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldier. [Hopelessness.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 132 1942 March 1107 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 132... Differences between Hitler's allies...]. Photograph: Meeting of German POWs. [At last they can speak their mind openly.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 111 1942 March 1108 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 111... Supply of foodstuff for children reduced... War cripples without work and bread...] Photograph: Russian doctor is treating a German POW
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 112 1942 April 1109 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 112... Somber prophecies by Goebbels... Hitler means hunger...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: mother and two children.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 133 1942 April 1110 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 133 April... In 1942, the back-bone of Hitler-Germany will be broken...]. Caricature: Hitler is cutting rations.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 141... 1942 April 1111 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 141... The Russians have defeated the SS-Division "Das Reich"...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldier in a snow storm in Russia.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 15 1942 April 1113 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 15... Greetings from our camp...] - Poem by Erich Weinert published under his pseudonym "Tom, der Reimer"
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 142 1942 April 1114 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 142... Russian onslaught increasing...]. Photograph: [Russian booty collected during advance.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. l34 1942 April 1115 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 134... Hungarian people against Hitler-occupants...]. Photograph: [Russian booty collected during advance.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 56 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 113 1942 April 1116 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 113... What is the price the German people have to pay for this war?... Sabotage in German factories...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: mother and child. [Today, again no bread!]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 135 1942 April 1117 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 135... English landings on the French coast... Saint-Nazaire... Mass attacks of English airplanes on Germany...]. Photograph: [Russian booty collected during advance.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 143 1942 April 1118 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No.143... Russians occupied 69 villages...]. Photograph: [Russian booty collected during advance.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : An den neuen Ersatz, an die deutschen Arbeiter an der Front! Kameraden!... 1942 1119 April Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [To the new replacements, to the workers at the front!...]. Hitler caricature, a Russian tank is crushing Hitler: [The advancement of the Red Army is continuing.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Arbeiter, Soldaten des neuen Ersatzes! Noch fühlt Ihr auf Euren... 1942 1120 April Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German workers, soldiers of the new replacements! Even now you feel on your lips the parting kisses of your wife and child...]. Photomontage: [Daddy, do come home!]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Denk daran, was Dir Dein Vater sagt!... 1942 April 1121 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Think about it, what your father is telling you! My son, you hold your rifle in your hands...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 2 : An die Soldaten des neuen Ersatzes... 1942 April 1122 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [To the soldiers of the new replacements...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldier is surrendering.
Box/Item No.: 2 : GEGEN HITLER UND KRIEG, FÜR... 1942 April 1123 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Against Hitler and war, for peace and friendship with Soviet Russia...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Arbeiter im Waffenrock, an Euch... 1942 April 1124 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German workers in uniform, to you we speak... The Russian workers are not the enemy of the German workers, the German peasants...]. Drawing.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 57 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : DEUTSCHER, WIRF DIE AUGENBINDE... 1942 April 1125/1202 Scope and Content Note 26x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German, throw away your blindfold! Hitler is pushing you in an abyss! German soldier! Your hours are numbered! Stop! Open your eyes! We do not want to destroy you. The Germans are not the enemies of the Russians. Our enemy is Hitler, your corruptor.]. Drawing.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Die faschistische Propaganda wickelt... 1942 April 1126/1201 Scope and Content Note 26x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [...Fascist propaganda is wrapping up Germany in poisonous lies...]. Goebbels caricature.
Box/Item No.: 2 : An die Soldaten und Offiziere des I. R. 427 der... 1942 April 1128 Scope and Content Note 14x18 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [To the soldiers and officers of the I.R. 427 of the 129th 10...]. Appeal of German POWs to their comrades.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Soldaten der 9. Armee... 1942 April 1129 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Soldiers of the 9th Army...]. Appeal of German POWs to their comrades of the 9th Army [...Because we were convinced by the true content of Russian leaflets we decided to go calmly into captivity...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 114 1942 April 1130 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 114... Goebbels is threatening the German people...]. Caricature: Goebbels is playing the song of death.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 16 1942 April 1131 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 16... What the German soldier is getting to eat in Russian captivity... We are human beings again...]. - Photograph: German POWs are reading a newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 144 1942 April 1132 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 144 April 1942... Soviet troops drive German invaders from Russian soil... Annihilating blows by Russian partisans...]. Photograph: [Russian booty collected during advance.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : 10 GEBOTE die jeder deutsche Soldat kennen muss. MERKE DIR!... 1942 April 1133 Scope and Content Note 10x21 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: advice is given on how to surrender safely [Ten commandments each German soldier has to know... Unload your rifle but do not throw your gun and ammunition away, turn it over to Red Army soldiers...]. Six illustrations.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 58 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 136 1942 April 1134 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 136... Millions of Germans have paid for Hitler's adventures with their lives... England's help for Russia is increasing permanently..]. Hitler caricature.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 115 1942 April 1135 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 115... Hunger revolts of German workers... Swindling and corruption of German high ranking officers... Soldiers' families in need...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: mother and two hungry children.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 145 1942 April 1136 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 145... Russian combined blows against German troops...]. Drawing: [German POWs are signing an appeal.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? 1942 April 1137 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 116... A new gang robbery against German workers...]. Drawing: [The Gestapo is looking for money.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 146 1942 April 1138 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No: 146... Russians annihilate two German regiments... There are no obstacles for Russian tanks...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [...Another widow and an orphan added to the million others]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 137 1942 April 1139 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 137... 1942 will bring victory over Hitler... The Allies will help the Russians...]. Photograph: [American airplanes at the Russian front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 117 1942 April 1141 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 117... What German soldiers write their relatives?...]. The leaflet is publishing statistics on the content of "Feldpost". Drawing by Erich Weinert: a blind German soldier.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 138 1942 April 1142 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 138... Spring will bring new victories for Russians...]. Photograph: [English tanks at the Russian front.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 59 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 147 1942 April 1143 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 147... Booty of the Russian troops...]. Photomontage: [Their family's luck is buried here]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 17 1942 April 1144 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 17... Hitler is guilty of this war.]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [I want to surrender. This is the way I will save my life.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 118 1942 April 1145 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 118... Executions in Germany... The voice of a German mother...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [No bread, today again.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 139 1942 April 1146 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 139... Turn your weapons against the Hitler-clique... American troops are arriving! ...]. Photograph: [Booty of Russian troops...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 148 1942 April 1147 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 148... At the beginning of spring the Russian Army will deal out stronger blows...]. Photograph: [Booty of Russian troops...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 140 1942 April 1150 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 140... In spring the Russians will accelerate their offensive... Terrible bombardment by the English Air Force...]. Caricature: Hitler is crushed by a Soviet tank.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 119 1942 April 1151 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 119... Hitler's socialism in reality...] Drawing by Erich Weinert: [cripple and SS-man.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 149 1942 April 1152 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 149... The Red Army is well prepared for the spring...]. Caricature: [Hitler is cutting ration coupons.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 150 1942 April 1155 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 150... The Red Army is driving the German invaders westward...]. Photomontage: [German soldiers are surrendering.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 60 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 120 1942 April 1156 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 120... Hitler's war is the reason for epidemics... The war is good business for German plutocrats]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Hitler is responsible for this misery.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 141 1942 April 1157 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 141... The Slavs have united in their fight against Hitler... Yugoslavia - a country in war. Partisan warfare... A German military train derailed...]. Photograph: [Booty of Russians during advance...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 18 1942 April 1158 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 18... For the first time in many weeks I was able to eat enough...]. Photograph: German POWs are having a good meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 121 1942 April 1164 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 121... The honest voice of a German poet...]. Johannes R. Becher was speaking on the radio station "Free Germany". Drawing and slogan by Erich Weinert: [For Germany there is only one victory. End for Hitler, end the war! Another orphan.]. Photograph: [Another widow]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 142 1942 April 1165 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 142... The destruction of Hitler's Army is unavoidable... The armament production of the United States is exceeding...]. Photograph: [A new delivery of American tanks is reaching the Eastern front.]. The tanks shown are not of American but of Soviet production!
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 151 1942 April 1166 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 151... Heavy attacks by Russian troops...]. Photograph: A Russian doctor is treating a POW
Box/Item No.: 2 : SOLDATEN! LANDSLEUTE! Der vom deutschen Volke gewählte... 1942 April 1167 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Soldiers! Countrymen! Wilhelm Pieck, elected by the German people to the Reichstag, speaks to you. Listen...]. Portrait of Wilhelm Pieck and Wilhelm Pieck speaking with German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 152 1942 April 1172 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 152... The power of the Russians is increasing...]. Photomontage: Father of a German soldier is giving advice to his son.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 61 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 122 1942 April 1173 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 122... Why is bread not available in Germany?...]. Drawing and caption, by Erich Weinert: [What is the use of a beautiful hero's death, if there is no bread for your children!]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 143 1942 April 1174 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 143... The day of the American Army... Active war by the English Air Force...]. Photograph: [Heavy Soviet tank is colliding with German tank.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 19 1942 April 1175 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 19... I am satisfied I have chosen captivity... The Russian commissar is the best friend of German POWs...]. Photo: Russian commissar is telling German POWs what is going on in the world.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 123 1942 April 1176 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 123... Hitler's Easter present for the German people... 300 English airplanes attack Lubeck... Appeal of Wilhelm Pieck to the German soldiers...]. Drawing and caption by Erich Weinert: [Another widow.], see the death notice on the floor.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 153 1942 April 1177 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 153... Russians annihilate two German divisions... The power of the Soviet Air Force...]. Photograph: [A group of German soldiers surrendered to the Russians.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 154 1942 April 1179 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 154... Mighty combined attacks of the Russians... Burial detachments cannot cope burying all the German soldiers... Although working by day and night... the piles of corpses are too much... Most of the dead had been 16 to 17 or over 60 years of age]. Photograph: [Russian booty taken during advance... Hitler's insane adventure is coming to an end...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 20 1942 April 1180 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 20...]. Poem and two drawings by Erich Weinert: [Greetings from POW camp. A talk in a quiet night...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 144 1942 April 1181 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 144... American troops are landing in Europe... Dissent among Hitler's vassals...]. Photograph: A Russian nurse is dressing the wound of a German POW.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 62 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 124 1942 April 1182 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 124... Hitler's minister is a crook. The German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop has a criminal past... The fat asses of the SS should fight themselves...]. Two drawings by Erich Weinert: [Again, no bread!... Hitler's spring reserves...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Deutsche Soldaten, Landsleute!... 1942 April 1183 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Countrymen! We, members of the Reichstag, have been elected by the German people...]. Signatures in facsimile of four politicians. Photograph: German communist politicians Wilhelm Florin, Walter Ulbricht and Gustav Sobottka, are talking to German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : WENN IHR AM LEBEN BLEIBEN WOLLT, GEBT EUCH GEFANGEN!... 1942 April 1184 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [If you want to stay alive, surrender!...]. Letter of a German soldier killed in action on the Eastern front. [...Death, only death awaits everyone who came here as enemy and suppressor. Not one occupier will return home alive...]. Facsimile of letter mentioned.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 155 1942 April 1186 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 155... One German division beaten...]. Photomontage: [Russian booty taken during advance.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 125 1942 April 1187 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 125... How German plutocrats are living... Germany is mourning...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Where is Daddy?]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 145 1942 April 1188 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 145... Enormous losses of German navy and air force...]. Photograph: German POWs playing chess. Serious battles are being fought but not on the endless snow fields but on the 64 fields of the chessboard.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 126 1942 April 1189 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 126... Berlin is laughing...]. Cartoon: Hitler shown as a henchman on a pile of skulls. [Hitler the murderer of the German people.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 146 1942 April 1190 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 146... Russians are fighting for peace and freedom... Bombardment of Hamburg...]. Photograph: [A German airplane shot down by Russians.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 63 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 21 1942 April 1191 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 21... My life is saved... Two months in Russian captivity]. Photograph: German POWs are reading the latest newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 147 1942 April 1192 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1- 4.1942 - description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 147... America, an arsenal of freedom loving nations... Mutiny of German troops in Belgium...]. Photograph: [Meeting of German soldiers in Russian POW camp. Finally they can speak their opinion openly.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 156 1942 April 1193 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 156... Russian tanks are superior to German tanks...]. Photograph: German POWs are taking a walk after their meal.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 127 1942 April 1194 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 127... Destruction in Cologne...]. Cartoon: Göring is sitting on bags of money.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 157 1942 April 1195 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 157... The encircled German troops are doomed...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldiers are surrendering holding safe conducts in their hands.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 128 1942 April 1196 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 128... The German soldier on the barbaric Hitler regime.. .]. Report on the sterilization of a man... Drawing by Erich Weinert: capitalists, SA-man, cripple meeting in a street: [There are two Germanies.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 148 1942 April 1197 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 148... Attack of the English Air Force on Germany and Italy... Heroic fight of the Norwegian people against the German invaders]. Photograph: [Russian booty.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 22 1942 April 1198 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 22... The new arrivals are speaking...]. Photograph: German POWs, fresh newspapers have arrived].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 64 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : 805 kriegsgefangene deutsche Soldaten scliessen sich dem Appell der... 1942 April 1204 Scope and Content Note 21x28 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: 805 German POWs are joining the first appeal of 158 POWs demanding to fight for a free Germany. With facsimile of the appeal mentioned.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 129 1942 April 1205 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 129... Hitler is sending workers from armament factories to fight at the front...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: cripple coming home.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 158 1942 April 1206 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 158... Russians are penetrating German fortifications... A German worker is refusing to fight against Russian workers I did not want to fight. I am a worker, for what should I fight against Russian workers? ]. Photograph: [A new delivery of American tanks is reaching the Eastern front.]. The tanks shown are not of American but of Soviet production!
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 149 1942 April 1207 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1 - 4.1942 - description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 149... German-Americans against Hitler...]. Photograph: [English airmen on the Russian front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Fragen und Antworten FÜR DIE DEUTSCHEN SOLDATEN UND... 1942 April 1209 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Questions and answers for German soldiers and officers. Question: What every member of the German Wehrmacht has to know...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : AN DIE SOLDATEN DER EINGEKESSELTEN TRUPPEN DER... 1942 April 1210 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [...To the soldiers of the encircled troops of the German Army...]. Two photographs and four facsimile signatures: German communist politicians Wilhelm Florin, Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht and Gustav Sobottka, are talking to German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 159 1942 April 1211 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 159... The snow is melting, and the German reserves are melting too...]. Photomontage: [Russian booty taken near Brijansk.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 150 1942 April 1212 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No.150... Spring and summer will bring Hitler his downfall...]. Caricature: [Hitler in the position of a henchman is standing on a pile of skulls.]
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Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? 1942 April 1213 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 130... During one night 48 houses had been destroyed... Goebbels is demanding to lie...]. Cartoon: [On the one side they live it up. The others are going hungry.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 23 1942 April 1214 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 23... Meeting of German officers, POWs and deputies of the German Reichstag... Wilhelm Florin, Walter Ulbricht, Gustav Sobottka]. Photograph: German POWs in the camp's kitchen.
Box/Item No.: 2 : LIEBE KAMERADEN an der Front, Ihr haltet uns sicher schon für tot... 1942 April 1223 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Dear comrades at the front, you probably think we are dead...]. Photograph: German communist politicians Wilhelm Florin, Pieck, Walter Ulbricht and Gustav Sobottka, are talking to German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : German soldiers listen! The famous German revolutionary poet Erich Weinert is 1225-1229 speaking to you… 1942 April Scope and Content Note A safe conduct in two languages with the Soviet emblem and Stalin quotes from his order No. 55 are added. Each leaflet is illustrated with different drawings and poems by Erich Weinert and others.
Box/Item No.: 2 : DEUTSCHE GEWERKSCHAFTLER SPRECHEN ZUM 1. MAI ZU EUCH... 1942 April 1230 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German trade unionists speak to you on the occasion of May first. Worker in soldier's uniform! Countrymen! The first of May is approaching. Since 53 years this day has been celebrated the world over...]. Facsimile signature of four prominent German communist trade unionists. Drawing by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 131 1942 April 1231 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 131... Hitler is the enemy of the middle classes...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: two children, nothing to eat.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 160 1942 April 1232 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 4.1942 - description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 160... Defeat of the Germans at the front...]. Photograph, photomontage: Iron crosses - wooden crosses.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 151 1942 April 1233 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 151... One year Soviet-Japanese non-aggression pact... Unity of the American countries in their fight against the fascist aggressors...]. Photograph: [German POWs are writing a poster for the May first holiday].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 66 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : MAI 1942 (VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN... 1942 April 1234 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [May 1942 (from a German soldier!) Spring! Spring!... Today is the first of May - we will surrender!...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 2 : AM 1. MAI - KOMMT ZU UNS! Der 1. Mai... 1942 April 1236 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [On May 1, come on over to us! May first, is the day of solidarity of people and the day of the rights of workers... May the glowing sun of May show you the way to your safety. Celebrate the day of May 1, surrender in masses and we will receive you as friends].
Box/Item No.: 2 : WEIGERT EUCH, IN DIE... 1942 April 1237 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Refuse to join the spring-offensive German...]. Facsimile signature of four prominent German communist politicians. Drawing by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 161 1942 April 1238 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 161... The Germans are defeated at the front and behind the front...]. Photograph: [POWs are chatting with Red Army soldiers.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrußland leben Nt. 24 1942 April 1239 Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 24... German POWs want a free and independent Germany...]. Photograph: Three German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 132 1942 April 1240 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 132... Anti-Hitler slogans in the streets of Berlin... Strike in an armament factory in Bremen...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: Three wounded German soldiers on a train. Caption: [Homecoming.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 152 1942 April 1241 Scope and Content Note 18x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 152... The break-down of Hitler-Germany is near...]. Caricature: [Hitler as a Teuton]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 162 1942 April 1243 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 162... German divisions of the "Springreserve" are being annihilated...]. Photograph: [Heavy Russian tank is ramming a German tank.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 67 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 153 1942 April 1244 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 153... Hitler's "crusade" has completely failed...]. Photograph: [English tanks at the Russian front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : WILHELM PIECK DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN, LANDSLEUTE!... 1942 April 1246 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Wilhelm Pieck German soldiers, Countrymen... You will die for Hitler, who is pushing Germany over the edge...]. Photograph and facsimile of his signature: Wilhelm Pieck, a German communist politician.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 25 1942 April 1248 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 25... A day in a POW-camp... Anti-fascist marching song of POWs...]. A lecture on Heinrich Heine in a POW camp.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 163 1942 April 1249 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 163... Russian cavalry is attacking Germans in the rear of the front...]. Photograph: Russian cavalry is attacking.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 155 1942 April 1251 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 155... Hitler Germany will be hit by the force of the United Nations...]. Photograph: [English pilots in the North of the Soviet German front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Österreichische Soldaten, HITLER IST EUER FEIND! Soldaten... 1942 April 1252 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Austrian soldiers, Hitler is your enemy! Soldiers from Austria!...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldier is accusing Hitler.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 164 1942 April 1253 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 164... Russians are destructing German reserves...]. Photomontage: [One of the Russian heavy tanks in action on the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 134 1942 April 1254 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 134 ... We do not have a home anymore!...]. Cartoon: [Hitler is pushing the German people into the precipice.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. l56 1942 April 1259 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 156... The Russians will definitely defeat Hitler...]. Photograph: [German soldiers are surrendering.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 68 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 26 1942 April 1260 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 26... The Soviet leaflets contain the truth. The treatment and living conditions in captivity are very good and are surpassing all expectations...]. Facsimile of a letter of a German POW [Soldiers! Take care that this letter will be sent to the addressee.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 165 1942 April 1261 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 165... Attacks of the Red Army... Confessions of a German doctor...]. Photomontage: [German soldiers are surrendering and handing a copy of the Soviet leaflet-newspaper "Soldatenstimme" to a Red Army soldier.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 166 1942 April 1266 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 166... The Russians push the German invaders westward...]. Photograph: [A group of German POWs is talking to a Russian commissar.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 136 1942 April 1267 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 136... Hitler's government is in the hands of German plutocrats... Hitler is the enemy of German peasants...]. Drawing: [The SS-man lives it up while the people go hungry.]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 157 1942 April 1268 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 152... The blow will be deadly for Hitler... English troops landed on the French coast... near Boulogne... Armed uprising against German occupants in St. Nazaire... On both sides more than 800 persons having been killed and wounded]. Photograph: [German troops surrender].
Box/Item No.: 2 : HITLERS NIEDERLAGE IST DEUTSCHLANDS RETTUNG... 1942 April 1269 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's defeat will be Germany's recovery... Hitler is not Germany...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [German soldiers are reading Stalin's order...]
Box/Item No.: 2 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 27 1942 April 1270 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 27... The Soviet Union is adhering strictly to the Hague Convention on POWs... The Russian commissar met me as a comrade]. Photograph: German POWs are listening intently to the Russian commissar.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 158 1942 April 1271 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 158... The war will end with Hitler's defeat...]. Caricature: Goebbels is spreading printed lies but he will not be able to avoid the defeat of Hitler's army.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 69 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 2 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 137 1942 April 1272 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 137... How the Nazi-bandits cheat the German people...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: On one side they live it up, the others go hungry.
Box/Item No.: 2 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 167 1942 April 1273 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 167... The Red Army is breaking German resistance...]. Photograph: [Russian booty.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Hitler hat Euch betrogen: ABLÖSUNG... 1942 April 1274 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler betrayed you: replacements will not arrive!... You believed, hoped and waited. Hitler betrayed you... spring is already here but replacements will not come...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldiers are reading Stalin's order No. 55.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHLAND RUFT! Deutsche Soldaten!... 1942 April 1275 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Germany calling! German soldiers! Hitler's war machine is running to extort from you enormous war profits... The Russians do not take prisoners. Do not believe this lie!...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: a German soldier, safe conduct in his hand, is surrendering.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 138 1942 April 1276 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 138... English bombers over Schweinfurt...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Again, mother brought nothing...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 159 1942 April 1277 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 159... America is producing equipment for 3,600,000 soldiers...] Drawing by Erich Weinert: [A German soldier is surrendering.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 168 1942 April 1278 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [... News from the Front No. 168... The Red Army is attacking... The war against Russia made me ten years older...]. Drawing: Hitler on a pile of skulls. [Hitler, the murderer of the German people.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Ihr habt zu viel geglaubt! HABT IHR DEN BETRUG NOCH NICHT... 1942 April 1279 Scope and Content Note 19x24 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [You believed too much! Are you not fed up with this... Is that true? - or is that not true?...] Quotes from Nazi newspapers are confronted with sayings of Hitler and Goebbels at a later time.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 70 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Ihr habt diesen Krieg begonnen 1942 April 1280 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [...You have started this war - You must make an end to it!....We did not attack you...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [German POWs are surrendering and handing over their safe conduct leaflets to Red Army soldiers.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 169 1942 April 1281 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 169... Heavy losses for German troops... German soldiers are shirking...]. Two drawings by Erich Weinert: graves of German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 139 1942 April 1282 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 139... Those in the rear area are making fun of soldier's wives... Soldiers wives demand the return of their husbands... Houses in the town of Lübeck destroyed...]. Drawings by Erich Weinert: [Another widow - another orphan.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 160 1942 April 1283 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 160... German soldiers refuse to go to the East front...]. Photograph: a group of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 28 1942 April 1284 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 28... Mail from home... Preparations for May celebrations in the Russian POW camps... Recognize the true enemy...]. Poem and facsimile letter.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Hitlers Politik des Völkerhasses führt Deutschland in... 1942 April 1285 Scope and Content Note 23x17 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's policy of hate is leading Germany to a catastrophe...]. Two drawings: [They fight against the foreign invaders.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 29 1942 May 1286 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 29... The Red Army is protecting the lives of POWs... The Soviet government is respecting international commitments... The note of peoples commissar Molotov on the bestialities of the German occupants...]. Photograph: German POWs are receiving medical help.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 161 1942 May 1287 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 161... Mass attacks of the RAF on Germany and the North of France... Beaten by blows from the East and the West Hitler's war machine will break down... The French are helping British troops after their landing near Boulogne...]. Hitler caricature.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 71 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 170 1942 May 1288 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 170... The Red Army continues to attack. For what did he die?...] Photograph: Captured German tank.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 162 1942 May 1290 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 162... Colossal power is ready for the blow against Hitler... Bloody fights between Norwegians and the Gestapo...]. Photomontage: [British pilots working together with Soviet pilots at the East front.]. Note: There is no explanation why the British pilots in the illustrated photomontage carry rifles at the ready.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 140 1942 May 1291 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 140... Hitler is talking about a new winter in the war at the eastern front... 400 tons of bombs dropped on the town of Rostock… Since 22th June, 1941 everything has changed...]. Cartoon: Hitler is making promises.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Deutscher Soldat! Überleg Dir gut, welchen Weg Du gehen willst... 1942 May 1293 Scope and Content Note 25x18 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldier! Think about it, which way you want to go... Why Hitler's spring offensive will fail...]. Photomontage: A German soldier at the crossroads. [If you become a prisoner of war you will return. If you follow Hitler you will perish.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 171 1942 May 1294 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 171... Instead "Quiet Winter" 1,00,000 Germans dead... Those who stayed alive report on the dead...]. Drawing: Hitler is using his June ration coupons now.
Box/Item No.: 3 : HITLERS KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG AN DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK... 1942 May 1298 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's declaration of war against the German people... Front and home revolt... Hitler is placing himself above all law.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben 1942 May 1300 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 30... Stalin on the future of the German people... The German POW Max Herrmann writes: "Stalin's order Nr. 55 of 23rd February: 1942 made a deep impression on me...]. Photograph: German POWs in their sleeping quarters.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 141 1942 April 1301 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 141... Hitler declared war to the German people... Germany's reserves of men is depleting... The misery of a soldier's family...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: Hitler brought distress and despair to Germany.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 72 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 172 1942 April 1302 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 172... Heavy losses of Germans at the North-East front... Comrade, do not shoot...]. Photograph: [English planes in the North of the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 142 1942 May 1303 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 142... Hitler declared war to the German people... Hitler is speaking about the coming war in winter at the Eastern front... The Hitlers come, the Hitlers go, but the German people, the German state will remain...]. Caricature: Hitler shouting.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 143 1942 May 1304 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 143... The population is fleeing the town of Rostock]. Drawing: [Under these crosses her husband, the father of his children is buried.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 163 1942 May 1305 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 163... The Belgian people are fighting against the German occupiers... The insane tyrant will be placed in a straight jacket...]. Photograph: [American tanks are arriving in masses at the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 173 1942 May 1307 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 173 The German 11th Division has been annihilated…]. Hitler caricature: [From the East and the West, the Allied bombs are hitting Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 174 1942 May 1311 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 174... Instead a quiet winter 100,000 dead Germans... 1,050 German aircraft destroyed. In the month of April 1,050 German aircraft have been destroyed by anti-aircraft guns or fighter planes...]. Photograph: [Russian fighter plane, ready to take off.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 165 1942 May 1312 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 165... The Red Army has received the order to destroy Hitler in 1942... America is ready to fight the war on the European continent... New destroying blows by the RAF...]. Photograph: [Russian pilots are receiving their order to go into battle.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 144 1942 May 1313 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 144... Stalin on the internal situation of Germany... Workers of the Ruhr area demand the arrest of Hitler's government... Cologne in flames...]. Two drawings: [Her only son is dead...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 73 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die deutschen Faschisten sind nicht die Träger der Kultur, sondern Feinde... 1942 1318 May Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The German Fascists are not representatives of culture but enemies of culture...]. The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die Machthaber des heutigen Deutschlands sind Kettenhunde der... 1942 May 1319 Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The ruling classes of Germany today are leashed dogs of the German bankers and plutocrats...]. The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 31 1942 May 1320 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 31... On the first of May we saved our lives and our honor... I am already eight months in Russian captivity... Our lives are no longer in danger...]. Photograph: German POWs in their sleeping quarters.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 166 1942 May 1321 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 166... The year 1942 will be the year of Hitler's destruction... Seven big attacks by the RAF...]. Photograph: [British airplanes at the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 145 1942 May 1322 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin on the German plutocrats... Hermann Göring - one of the biggest German Plutocrats... An old woman worker is telling the truth...]. Caricature: [The plutocrat Göring is feeding on your blood.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 175 1942 May 1323 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 175... The Russians are destroying encircled troops... How I celebrated the first of May...]. Photograph: [Russian bombing planes are ready to start.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Sowjetrussland führt einen gerechten Krieg STALIN der... 1942 May 1336 Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Soviet Russia is waging a just war...]. The leaflet is quoting Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Sowjetrussland und die Rote Armee werden immer stärker STALIN der... 1942 May 1337 Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Soviet Russia and the Red Army is growing stronger...]. The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 74 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Das faschistische Deutschland und seine Armee sind schwächer geworden... 1942 1338 May Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The fascist Germany and its Army have become weaker...] The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Alle freiheitliebenden Völker haben sich gegen den deutschen Imperialismus... 1942 1339 May Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [All freedom loving people have united against the German imperialism...] The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die Niederlage Hitlerdeutschlands ist unvermeidlich Stalin der... 1942 May 1340 Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The defeat of Hitler Germany is unavoidable...]. The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die Rote Armee wird den Sieg davontragen. Stalin der Volkskommissar... 1942 May 1341 Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The Red Army will have the victory...]. The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the first of May, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnichrichten Nr. 176 1942 May 1342 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 176... Heavy blows by Russian tanks and cavalry... American armament for the Russian front... The power of the German Army is dwindling...]. Photograph: [One of the many German tanks which fell into Russian hands intact.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 146 1942 May 1343 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 146... Stalin is exposing the German fascism… The German economy is governed by Plutocrats... Who is the owner of the land in Germany?...]. Drawing: [There are two Germanys.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 167 1942 May 1344 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 167... Stalin's order to destroy Hitler in 1942... The Bulgarian people are greeting the Red Army... Belgian patriots blow up a factory working for German occupants...]. Caricature: [Hitler is pushing the German people on a precipice.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 147 1942 May 1347 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 147... Hitler takes action against his opposition... Hitler Fascists are forcing ten-year-olds to work]. Drawing: [Daddy, do come home!]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 75 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 177 1942 May 1348 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 177... German fighting line in Leningrad broken... Why Russian soldiers are fighting till their death?...]. Photograph: [German airplanes shot down by Russians.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 168 1942 May 1349 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 168... The US Air Force is ready to take action against Hitler... French uprising against the German occupants...]. Photomontage: [A new delivery of American tanks is arriving at the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 169 1942 May 1350 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 169... The Russian people and the Red Army will strictly adhere to its (Führers) orders...]. Caricature, Hitler is standing on a pyramid of skulls: [Hitler is the murderer of the German people.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 32 1942 May 1351 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 32… The Nazis are the worst enemies of culture. Stalin's order opened my eyes]. Photograph: German POWs in their camp.
Box/Item No.: 3 : "Hitler ist nicht Deutschland... Die Hitlers kommen und..." 1942 May 1352 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of caricature: [Hitler is not Germany]. Caricature: The Hitlers come and go but the German people, the German state will remain]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. l48 1942 May 1354 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 148... German plutocrats profit from the dead German soldiers... Mass strikes and hunger demonstrations in Dortmund... Aerial bombardment of Hamburg...]. Drawing: [Again, no bread.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 178 1942 May 1355 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 178... Another battle of encirclement... Russian captivity is saving the lives of German soldiers...]. Photograph: [German POWs in a Russian camp.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 170 1942 May 1356 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 170... Stalin's order is based on the real situation... Big attack by the RAF on Hamburg...]. Photograph: [British airplanes in action on the Eastern front.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 76 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 171 1942 May 1357 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 171... Hitler's tyranny will be cleared from the earth in 1942... The hour of victory over Hitler is near...]. Photograph: [British workers in an armament factory sending weapons to the Eastern front ...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : 1942 wird das Jahr der endgültigen... 1942 May 1360 Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [1942 will be the year of the final destruction of Hitler's invaders...]. From Stalin's speech on the first of May 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : WENN DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN UND OFFIZIERE SICH ERGEBEN,... 1942 May 1362 Scope and Content Note 15x9 cm - 2 - paper rose - preservation: 1. Description: [If German soldiers and officers surrender the Red Army is taking them prisoner and saves their lives. The Red Army destroying German soldiers and officers if they will not surrender...]. The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's order No. 55.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 179 1942 May 1366 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 179... Another battle of encirclement... The Red Army is attacking... The RAF is attacking... What is the true honor of a soldier?...]. Photograph: [One of the German airplanes shot down in the region of Murmansk].
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 1492 1942 May 1368 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 149... Germany is facing a catastrophic lack of food... German judges against Hitler... The Austrian people are rising up against Hitler...]. Drawing: [She came back again with empty pockets.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten 180 1942 May 1369 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 180... Russian cavalry are attacking the Germans from the rear... The Russian sharp shooters are frightening the Germans... Neither spring nor summer will help Hitler...]. Photograph: [One of the many German tanks that fell in the hands of the Russians intact.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 173 1942 May 1371 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 173... The whole world is certain Stalin's order will be obeyed... Hungarian partisans fight against Hitler's war... New attack of the RAF on Southern Germany...]. Hitler caricature: [Soviet Russia, England and the USA will destroy the Hitler fascism.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Das Märchen von der Unbesiegbarkeit der Hitlerarmee ist zu Ende STALIN... 1942 1372 May Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The fairy tale about the invincibility of Hitler's army has come to an end STALIN...]. The leaflet is quoting from Stalin's speech on the occasion of the first of May, 1942.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 77 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 174 1942 May 1373 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 174... Enormous military power will concentrate soon on Hitler... Chinese troops are attacking Shanghai and Nanking...]. Photograph: [Again new columns of English tanks are arriving at the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr.150 1942 May 1374 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 150... Hitler, the destroyer of German culture... English bombers over Stuttgart... Austrian patriots fight against Hitler...]. Drawing: [Down with Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 181 1942 May 1375 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 181... Heavy German losses... German soldiers refuse to continue to fight...]. Photograph: [Russian commissar talking friendly with a German soldier who had surrendered.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 34 1942 May 1376 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 34... The aim of the Red Army is clear and honourable...]. Photograph: German POW is getting a shave.
Box/Item No.: 3 : WARUM WIRD DIE ROTE ARMEE SIEGEN? 1942 May 1380 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Why the Red Army will win?... Because it is fighting a just patriotic war for the liberation of its soil from the fascist German occupants...]. Photograph: The supremacy in the air is on the Russian side. Daily German airplanes are being destroyed in great numbers.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 151 1942 May 1381 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 151... A discovery in Dortmund... (After an air raid of the RAP an illegal stock of food was discovered)... Hitler took her children... The Hitler fascists are afraid of an uprising of their people...]. Drawing: [The SS bigwig is eating while the people go hungry.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 175 1942 May 1382 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 175... The Red Army is pushing the sinister forces of Hitler fascism from this earth... Enormous enlargement of US armament production...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 78 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 176 1942 May 1386 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 176... The production of arms has risen 70 times in the USA...]. Photograph: Production site of an American tank factory producing tanks for the Soviet Union.
Box/Item No.: 3 : WER WIRD SIEGEN? DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Jeder von Euch fragt... 1942 May 1383 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Who will win?... Everybody near you is asking this... The Red Army will win. And why?...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten 182 1942 May 1384 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 182... The Russian troops are fighting offensively... The Russians destroy Hitler's "Spring" divisions...]. Photograph: [Booty of the Russians.] Slogan by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 152 1942 May 1387 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 152... Nazis promise eight more years of war... How is life in Kiel?... How much is the war profit for Krupp and how much for the Krupp worker?...]. Photomontage: [The Face of the ruling power in Germany.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 183 1942 May 1388 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 183... Heavy German losses on the Leningrad front... One Russian tank column after the other is on the way to the front...]. Photograph: [A transport of English tanks is arriving at the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 35 1942 May 1389 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 35... Molotov on the relationship with German POWs... I have to thank the Russians...]. Two photographs.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE WAHRHEIT ÜBER DIE OSTFRONT! 1942 May 1390 Scope and Content Note 18x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about the Eastern front...]. Photomontage: [You will be the next one!...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was jeder deutsche Soldat von der Ostfront wissen muss... 1942 May 1391 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What every German soldier has to know about the Eastern front...]. Photograph: graves of German soldiers under water.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 184 1942 May 1393 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 184... The Russians keep the initiative of military operations in their hands...]. Photograph: [German soldiers are surrendering.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 79 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 153 1942 May 1394 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No.153... Churchill is warning about a gas war... Embitterment and pessimism in Germany...]. Photograph: [English fighter planes on their way to the enemy.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 177 1942 May 1395 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 177... Churchill is warning Hitler to wage a gas war...]. Hitler caricature: [Hitler is ordering his soldiers to march into a mass grave.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 178 1942 May 1397 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 178... The Russian armies are stronger than ever...]. Caricature: Hitler is attacked from all sides.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 154 1942 May 1398 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [What is happening in Germany? No. 154... The German plutocrats enrich themselves during the war... The town looks deserted... Explosion in Munich...]. Drawing: [Down with Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 36 1942 May 1399 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 36... The Hitlers come and go but the German people will remain... The commissars treat POWs well... We learn the truth about Soviet Russia...]. Photograph: German POWs in their camp.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 185 1942 May 1404 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 185... Defeat of the Germans at the middle front...What was left of the elite German SS division "Das Reich"...]. Photograph: [Red Army soldier: Down with Hitler! Come to us!]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Das erwartet Dich und Deine Familie! 1942 May 1406 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [This is awaiting you and your family! / German soldier! For whom do you fight? For your family? NO!...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 3 : So oder So /DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN!... 1942 May 1407 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [This way or that way? You hope to be relieved. But for you there will be no relief... For you there will be only lice, dirt, waiting to be wounded or for a wooden cross with a steel helmet on top...]. Photomontage: A German soldier is holding a safe conduct over his head and demonstrating to his comrades the alternative "This way or that way."
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 80 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 179 1942 May 1408 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 179... A Japanese newspaper on the military power of the Soviet Union... German soldiers are revolting against the continuation of the war against Russia...]. Photograph: Production site of an American tank factory producing tanks for the Soviet Union.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 155 1942 May 1409 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 155... Germany is governed by plutocrats... German soldiers against the war...]. Drawing by Frans Masareel: [English bombers destroy systematically German armament factories.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 186 1942 May 1410 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 186... Offensive of the Red Army in the area of Kharkov... The Red Army is supplied with weapons and ammunition]. Photograph: [German aircraft shot down by Russians.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Sorgt dafür, dass dieser Brief aus der russischen... 1942 May 1412 Scope and Content Note 16x18 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers take care to send this letter to its destination...]. Facsimile of letter mentioned.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 37 1942 May 1415 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 37... The Russian people fight for a just cause... The Russian doctor healed my wounds...]. Photograph: German POWs in their camp.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 180 1942 May 1416 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 180... The fascist leaders are afraid.. In England new Canadian troops are arriving... The main Russian forces are enfolding only just now...]. Photograph: [A new batch of American tanks are arriving on the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 187 1942 May 1417 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 187... Destructive blows of the Russians in the area of Kharkov... The spring will help the operations of the partisans]. Photograph: [A group of German soldiers is surrendering.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 188 1942 May 1423 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 188... Defeat of the Germans in the area of Kharkov... Uninterrupted flow of English-American weapons to Russia...]. Photograph: [New American tanks have arrived in Russia.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 81 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. l56 1942 May 1424 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 156... Hitler's reserves on men are dwindling... Strikes in German factories...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Nieder mit Hitler! Nieder mit dem Krieg.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 181 1942 May 1425 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 181... Beginning of a gigantic offensive of the Russian armies... France - a boiling kettle...]. Photograph: [New American cannon used for arming Russian reserves.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! 1942 May 1429 Scope and Content Note Code 1429 contains 8 leaflets made up similarly: [German soldiers!...], followed by a slogan. On reverse a Stalin quote from his order No. 55 and a bilingual safe conduct are added.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 182 1942 May 1431 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 182... All the world over the news of the success of the Red Army is being reported... Additional money for the US armament industry... The help of the USA for Russia and England is increasing every month...]. Photograph: [A new delivery of American tanks is arriving at the Eastern front.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 38 1942 May 1433 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 38... How the POWs are working...]. Two drawings, probably by Heinrich Vogeler and a poem.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Gebt Euch furchtlos gefangen! 1942 May 1434 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: A new slogan in phonetic transcription on how to surrender is being given on the leaflet: ["Russ, sdaius!" i.e. "Russian, I surrender!"]. Photograph: A friendly Red Army soldier is inviting Germans to desert without fear.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 189 1942 May 1438 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 189... Successful offensive of the Red Army in the area of Kharkov... 'We should not have started this war against Russia...]. Photograph: [Russian booty taken by the Russians.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 190 1942 May 1439 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 190... Special information by the Soviet bureau of information. New victories of the Red Army...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldier is surrendering.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 82 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 183 1942 May 1440 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 183... Hitler will break down in the very near future... Anti-German manifestations in France... Severe unrest in Belgium...]. Drawing of partisans, burning houses: [They fight against foreign invaders.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 39 1942 May 1441 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 39... Berliners speak to Berliners... A German POW is buying Russian war loans...]. Photograph: A Russian commissar is speaking friendly with a German POW
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 157 1942 May 1442 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 157... A German newspaper is conceding lies... Sabotage in German factories...]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Nieder mit Hitler! Nieder mit dem Krieg.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : AN ALLE PANZERSCHÜTZEN DER DEUTSCHEN ARMEE... 1942 May 1443 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [To all members of the mechanized infantry of the German army... Again Guderian and the other producers of corpses force you to fight...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Rettet Eure Lieben vor einem frühzeitigen Tod... 1942 May 1455 Scope and Content Note 12x15 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Save your loved ones from an early death... Thousands of your comrades have been informed their child, wife, sister, mother or father had died. The war is the cause for their death...]. Photomontage: [...Your children whom you have left at home are in danger...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 191 1942 May 1456 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 191... Hitler fascists are withdrawing to the West... 455 German aircraft have been destroyed...]. Photograph: [Germans are laying down their weapons.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 158 1942 May 1457 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 158... Germany will be a land of widows and orphans... The SS and Gestapo are the worst enemies of the German people...]. Two drawings by Erich Weinert: [Another widow - Another orphan.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 184 1942 May 1458 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 184... The Germans have suffered a heavy defeat in the area of Kharkov... New American troops arrived in England...]. Photograph: [An American tank factory producing for the Soviet Union.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 83 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 185 1942 May 1459 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 185... The Russians have superior weapons... America is sending new troops to England...]. Photograph: [A group of German soldiers is surrendering.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 40 1942 May 1460 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 40... German mechanized infantry soldiers are warning their comrades... Soldiers speak to soldiers...]. Photograph, poem: [German POWs are expressing their thoughts on this poster.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 159 1942 May 1461 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 159... Hitler's bankers and plutocrats are feeding on German soldiers... German soldiers in the rear areas refuse to go to the front...]. Drawing: [Goering, the last reserves of fat.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : MIT JEDEM TAG WÄCHST DIE... 1942 May 1462 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [With every day the help the USA and England are giving is growing...]. Photograph: [English tanks for the Soviet Union.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : IM JAHRE 1942 wird die ausgeleierte Kriegsmaschine Hitlers zum Teufel gehen... 1463 1942 May Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [In the year 1942 Hitler's worn war machine will go to the devil...]. Drawing: [Hitler's case in the East is lost...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : WER WEITERKÄMPFT WIRD VERNICHTET. Wer sich gefangen gibt... 1942 May 1464 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [He who continues to fight will be annihilated...]. Drawing: [A Red Army soldier is inviting Germans to desert...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 192 1942 May 1465 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 192... Russian attacks in the area of Kharkov... Courageous attacks of Russian partisans in the rear of the Germans...]. Photograph: [Germans are surrendering to Russians.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 193 1942 May 1473 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: green or red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 193... Germans are suffering great losses... 105 German aircraft destroyed...]. Photograph: [Russian bombers ready to start.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 194 1942 May 1474 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 194... What Goebbels wrote about this division... And what the soldiers wrote about the same division...]. Photomontage: [You are the next one.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 84 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 186 1942 May 1475 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 186... England is preparing to land its troops on the Continent... America is increasing its armament production... Dissent between Hitler and Mussolini...]. Cartoon: [Hitler's case is lost...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 160 1942 May 1476 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 160... Goering is threatening the German women workers... Wives of soldiers are forced to work...]. Drawing by Frans Masareel: [English bombers destroy systematically German armament factories.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 195 1942 May 1482 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 195... The Germans are fleeing and leave their weapons behind... Russian victory in a big tank battle... Instead of relief - death!...]. Drawing: Hitler is bringing death notes to the families of soldiers. [Hitler is caring for the families of dead soldiers.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 196 1942 May 1483 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 196... Terrible, unforgettable moments... No hope ever to leave this hell]. Drawing by Erich Weinert: German soldiers are reading Stalin's order No. 55.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 187 1942 May 1484 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 187... Declaration of Balfour, the English Deputy Minister for Air War ... In the USA 40 ships have been built...]. Photograph: [American tank factory producing for the Soviet Union.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 41 1942 May 1485 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 41... Assembly of German POWs in camp No. 74... The Russians treat us well...]. Photograph: A barber shop for German POWs. Poem by Erich Weinert, pseudonym "Tom der Reimer": [Greetings to Goebbels...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 161 1942 May 1486 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 161... Hitler fired Darré, the minister for farming... The bony hand of hunger is choking Germany... Despair among German people... German soldiers! Hitler condemned you to death, your families are condemned to suffering...]. Drawing: [Again, mother brought nothing to eat.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : WAS HAT STALIN GESAGT? Deutscher Soldat!... 1942 May 1487 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What did Stalin say? In his order of May first he described the German fascists... Hitler and his clique...]. Drawing: [The chain dogs of the German Capitalists.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 85 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : SCHAUT EUCH NACH DEM RICHTIGEN PLATZ UM... Deutsche Soldaten! Steht Ihr am... 1492 1942 May Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Drawing and poem by Erich Weinert: [German soldiers are reading Stalin's order No. 55...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : HITLER RÜSTET ZU EINEM ZWEITEN WINTERFELDZUG... 1942 May 1493 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is preparing a second winter campaign... German soldiers! Did you hear that?...]. Hitler caricature: [My soldiers! I took every precaution, you will not miss anything during the coming winter. Hitler in his speech in the Reichstag on 26th April, 1942...]. Poem, author unknown.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die russische Gefangenschaft... Eure Heimkehr... 1942 May 1494 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. See also leaflet code 1407, different reverse - description: [This way or that way. Your homecoming is the demand of your people at home... When surrendering - Hands up, and nobody will shoot at you!...]. Photomontage: A German soldier is holding a safe conduct over his head and demonstrating to his comrades the alternative "This way or that way."
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 188 1942 May 1496 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 188... Colossal increase of American shipbuilding... Dissent among Hitler's followers]. Hitler caricature: The Allies will defeat Hitler fascism.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 189 1942 May 1497 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 189... Dark clouds are hanging over Germany... The American fleet was enlarged by 1085 ships]. Caricature: [Hitler is pushing the German people in an abyss.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 162 1942 May 1498 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 162... The wives of soldiers are demanding to end this war... Four million fighters against Hitler]. Drawing: [Down with Hitler! Down with the war!]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 190 1942 May 1502 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 190... The Hitler fascists are afraid of the Russian artillery and air force... The war of the partisans in Greece is expanding...]. Photograph: Motorized units of the American Army.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 198 1942 May 1504 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 198... Tank battles are being won by the Russians...]. Hitler caricature: [Hitler is pushing the German soldier into an abyss.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 86 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 163 1942 May 1505 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 163... Anti-war newspapers are being disseminated in Germany... Anti-war demonstration in Munich...]. Caricature: [Hitler is not Germany.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 191 1942 May 1512 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 191... Hitler's fate will be decided in 1942... Russian weapon superiority...]. Hitler caricature: [Hitler's fate is decided...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 199 1942 May 1513 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 199... The Germans suffer enormous losses during their counter attacks... In ten days 543 German airplanes destroyed... Spring victories of the partisans...]. Drawing: [Partisans fight against the foreign invaders.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Hitler hat den Krieg begonnen... 1942 May 1515 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler started the war. The German people have to end the war by toppling Hitler... Wilhelm Pieck, Wilhelm Florin, Walter Ulbricht, Gustav Sobottka.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Genug der Blutopfer für die deutschen... 1942 May 1516 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Enough bloodshed for the German plutocrats... Wilhelm Pieck, Wilhelm Florin, Walter Ulbricht, Gustav Sobottka.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 200 1942 May 1519 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 200... The German 10th infantry division destroyed... 2100 German soldiers and officers have been cut down by Russian cavalry...]. Photograph: [Russian cavalry is attacking.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 165 1942 May 1520 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 165... Nazi officials do not allow relatives of wounded soldiers to visit them... Mass arrests in German cities...]. Drawing: [Down with the war!]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 192 1942 May 1521 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 192... General von Bock is predicting the unavoidable defeat of the Germans... Attempt on the life of Heydrich...]. Photograph: [Mass production of airplanes in the USA.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : An die Kameraden der Panzerwaffe!... 1942 May 1522 Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [To the comrades of the tank units... All this is Hitler's fault...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 87 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 201 1942 May 1523 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 201... The German counter attacks are being repulsed... Slaughter house: 190 corpses per hour...]. Photograph: [A group of German soldiers is surrendering to the Russians.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 166 1942 May 1525 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 166... It has become a fact, the German people are against Hitler... The Nazis intend to hide the truth about what is happening in Germany...]. Drawing: Your families want to have you back.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 193 1942 May 1526 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 193... England and the USA accumulate reserves the world has not seen before... In England new Canadian troops have arrived... The French people continue their war against Hitler...]. Photograph: [American airborne troops on their way to their destination...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Merk Dir gut, wie Du Dich vor dem unvermeidlichen Tod retten kannst!... 1942 May 1531 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Remember well, how you can save yourself from your unavoidable death... A smart soldier will always find a way to save his life. Don't wait...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die Pläne des OKW wiederum gescheitert... 1942 May 1533 Scope and Content Note 12x15 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [The plans of the OKW again in vain...]. Photograph: A group of German soldiers taken prisoners in the area of Kharkov:
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 167 1942 May 1535 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 167... The Red Army forced the German plutocrats to take off their masks... Anti-war committees of German workers...]. Photomontage: [The German plutocrats are driving German soldiers to a bloody slaughter to increase their profits.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 202 1942 May 1536 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 202... The plans of the German command have been frustrated... The Germans have lost near Kharkov 90,000 soldiers, officers...]. Photograph: [A group of German soldiers is surrendering to the Russians.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 194 1942 May 1537 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 194... American troops will also land in France... Cologne and Essen destroyed]. Photograph: [The English battle ship "Nelson"...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 88 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : KÖLN UND ESSEN ZERSTÖRT In der Nacht zum 31. Mai bombardierten... 1942 May 1541 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Cologne and Essen destroyed. In the night of 31st May, 1250 English heavy bombers destroyed important war objects in Cologne... German soldier!... Remember!... You will lose everything: your life, your home, and your family...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 195 1942 June 1542 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 195... Hitler will be destroyed in this year... 1250 English bombers over Cologne]. Caricature: [Hitler's case is lost...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 168 1942 June 1543 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 168... 1250 bombers over Cologne... Hitler's henchmen kill war veterans...]. Caricature: [Hitler's case is lost]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 203 1942 June 1544 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the - Front No. 203 ... An air attack never seen in history before... losses of Germans in the last week of May...]. Hitler caricature: [1942 Hitler's war machine will be destroyed.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland 1942 June 1546 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 45... I am satisfied with my fate...] Photograph.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 196 1942 June 1547 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 196... Disastrous blow of the English air force against the German industrial cities...]. Caricature: [In 1942 Hitler's ruined war machine will be smashed.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 197 1942 June 1548 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 197... Declaration of the deputy secretary Wallace of the USA... America is arming for the decisive blow against Hitler...]. Photomontage: [German tanks taken by the Russians during their offensive in the area of Kharkov.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 169 1942 June 1549 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 169... Deterioration of the German traffic system... A hunger year in store for Germany...]. Drawing: [What is the nicest death of a hero, when your children will be without bread!]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 89 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 204 1942 June 1550 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 204... Growing mass attacks of the English air force on Germany... Results of the war in the air on the Soviet-German front in May...]. Caricature: [In 1942 Hitler's ruined war machine will be smashed.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : AN DAS INTERNATIONALE KOMITEE DES ROTEN KREUZES... 1942 June 1552 Scope and Content Note 20x28 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: Declaration of German POWs on crimes they had committed or witnessed. This declaration is part of a campaign started by Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister. [... We could continue this report on the bestialities and crimes... These are not single cases but a system...]. On page four the declaration is reproduced as a facsimile.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE ERSTEN MASSENSCHLAGE DER ZWEITEN FRONT GEGEN... 1942 June 1558 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The first massive blows of the Second Front against Germany... Cologne and Essen are just the beginning]. Caricature: Bismarck and Emperor Wilhelm II are discussing Hitler's plan to conquer the world.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 198 1942 June 1559 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 198... The world press on the aerial attacks on Germany... Armed clashes in Paris...]. Photograph: German general Kruewel in front of his tank, now he is a POW and his and more than 100 tanks are smashed...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 46 1942 June 1564 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 46... Workers of the Ruhr are warning their countrymen... We all are sound and happy...]. Photograph: German POWs repairing a truck.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 205 1942 June 1565 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No.205... Reports from the Soviet-German front... Reports from the Western front...]. Two photographs: [A new group of German POWs have arrived in their camp]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? 1942 June 1566 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 171... The population is fleeing from the cities on the Rhine... The German air raid defenses are inadequate...]. Drawing: Bombs are falling on Cologne.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 199 1942 June 1568 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 199... English bombs are falling on Germany... Intensive air raid on Bremen...]. Caricature: [Hitler is being informed...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 90 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Der Lügen-Ober-Plutokrat Goebbels hat... 1942 June 1569 Scope and Content Note 12x19 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The super-liar-plutocrat. Goebbels transferred his wealth to foreign banks. Do not believe the lies of Goebbels about Russian captivity...]. The author of this poem is Johannes R. Becher, the German writer who later wrote the national anthem of the communist East German Republic.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 172 1942 June 1575 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 172... The results of the English air attacks on German cities... Workers in Berlin are on strike...]. Caricature: [Goering: Yes, war is difficult business.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 200 1942 June 1576 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 200... The suffering of the German people is in vain... English troops are landing on the French coast...]. Photograph: [German soldiers are taken prisoners by the Russians...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 206 1942 June 1577 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 206... Reports from the Soviet-German front... Reports from the Western front...]. Two photographs: [Victims of the senseless German counter attacks...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 207 1942 June 1578 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 207... Reports from the Soviet-German front... Reports from the Western front... Lieutenant General Sommerwell declared... American troops in Ireland are ready to fight...]. Hitler caricature with a caption in form of a pun: [It is my courtesy and custom! My living space is big and vast! The next one, please!]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 201 1942 June 1579 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 201... The Russians know they will win... A powerful offensive from the West and East will bring the victory over Hitler... The shots fired at Heydrich are a warning to the fascist oppressors...]. Photograph: [American tank factory is producing for the Soviet Union.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 173 1942 June 1580 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 173... Depressed mood of the German people... Cologne after May 31st...]. Drawing: Down with the war!
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 47 1942 June 1581 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 47... New groups of POWs are arriving at the camp... German officers taken prisoner disavow their oath on Hitler... they are swearing a new oath...]. Photograph: Counting of German POWs in camp No. 63.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 91 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : HITLER IN WORT UND TAT 1942 June 1582 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's words and Hitlers deeds... German soldiers!... You want peace but no country will make peace with Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 174 1942 June 1586 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 174... Attack of the English air force on Emden... A mother of a soldier was driven to commit suicide...]. Two Hitler caricatures: [Courtesy at the front... Courtesy in Germany...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 202 1942 June 1587 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 202... The English air offensive is in preparation for landing in Europe... The war will be carried to German soil...]. Caricature: Hitler, Goering and Goebbels are on the lookout for fresh canon fodder.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 208 1942 June 1588 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 208... Reports from the Soviet-German front... Reports from the Western front...]. Photograph: [German tanks destroyed by the Russian artillery.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : An die deutsche Jugend! Am Sonntag, den 7. Juni... 1942 June 1589 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [To the German youth... Moscow: Second antifascist youth conference... Young Germans in Germany... Sabotage in German armament factories...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 203 1942 June 1592 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 203 ... A new phase of the war against Hitler has begun... The French people hate the occupants... The German people do not believe in a victory... Photograph: [American weapons arrive unceasingly in Russia...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 209 1942 June 1593 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [News from the Front No. 209... Reports from the Soviet-German front... Reports from the Western front...]. Photograph: [German POWs are greeting their comrades who arrive at the camp from the front...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 175 1942 June 1594 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 6.1942- description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 175 How life really is in Germany... Difficult supply of foodstuff... Decline of birthrate in Germany...]. Caricature of Goering.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 92 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 48 1942 June 1595 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 48... A lieutenant saved the lives of his soldiers... We returned to peaceful work... Hitler is lying...]. Photograph: German POWs at work in a camp.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 204 1942 June 1598 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 204 London and Washington have agreed to attack the European continent... Declaration of US General Arnold ]. Photograph: [Mass production of aircraft in the USA.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 176 1942 June 1599 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 176... blows against the Ruhr area. .. Cologne destroyed...]. Caricature of Goering.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 210 1942 June 1600 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No.210... Fighting near Sebastopol... Kharkov... Leningrad...]. Photograph: [A group of German POWs is taken prisoner in Kharkov... Death houses...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Wollt Ihr die Wahrheit darüber wissen... 1942 June 1604 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: Report on the Allied treaty to start the Second Front in Europe by England and the USA. Illustration of treaty in 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Wollt Ihr die Wahrheit darüber wissen... 1942 June 1605 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: Report on the Allied treaty to start in 1942 the Second Front in Europe by England and the USA. Communiqué of treaty.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Wollt Ihr die Wahrheit darüber wissen wohin Hitler 1621 Deutschland gebracht hat, so liest hier die Reden Edens und Molotows... 1942 June Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: Speeches held on the occasion of the signing of the Allied treaty to start the Second Front in Europe by England and the USA in 1942.
Box/Item No.: 3 : APPELL an das schaffende Volk Deutschlands!... 1942 June 1623 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Communist members of German parliaments before 1933 are sending an appeal to German men and women. Note: Dissemination of this leaflet was intended to be in Germany, the leaflet is printed without a safe conduct.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Hitler wird zermalmt! Deutsche Soldaten!... 1942 June 1626 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Information on the conclusion of the military treaty between the Soviet-Union and the USA on 11th June, 1942. [Neither Russia nor England will have territorial requests against Germany, neither Russia nor England intend to intervene in Germany after Hitler is deposed.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 93 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE WAHRHEIT über den sowjetisch-englischen Vertrag... 1942 June 1628 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about the Soviet-English treaty and the Soviet-American agreement...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE ZWEITE FRONT WIRD NOCH IM JAHRE 1942 GESCHAFFEN!... 1942 June 1629 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The Second Front will become reality in 1942... Now you will soon feel what the Second Front will mean...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : EIN JAHR KRIEG DEUTSCHLANDS gegen SOWJETRUSSLAND... 1942 June 1630 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [One year of war of Germany against Soviet Russia. The 22nd June 1941 will be remembered as a "black sunday" ... What is the balance of this one year of war?...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Juni 1942 EXTRABLATT für deutsche Soldaten... 1942 June 1632 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Special edition for German soldiers... Ratification of the English, American and Soviet treaty: 1. England and the USA promise to start a Second Front in 1942... 2. England and the USA enlarge and expand their delivery of weapons to Russia. .. 3. Russia, England and the USA will not infringe foreign territories or rights...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 177 1942 June 1633 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 177... Hunger revolts in Hamburg... German workers refuse to give money to finance the war... The campaign to collect rags was without success...]. Caricature: [The Gestapo is searching for "rags"...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 205 1942 June 1634 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 205... The foreign press on the military agreement between the Soviet Union, England and the USA... The transport of weapons from England and the USA is being intensified...] Photograph: W. M. Molotov and F. D. Roosevelt in Washington.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 211 1942 June 1635 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from the Front No. 211... Reports from the Soviet-German front... Reports from the Western front...]. Photograph: [Arrival of American troops in England.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 206 1942 June 1654 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [News from Foreign Countries No. 206... 1000 English bombers over Bremen... The USA is opening the European theater of war... Declaration of Hopkins, the special emissary of Roosevelt...]. Photograph: [American troops have arrived in England]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 94 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 178 1942 June 1655 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 178... 1000 bombers over Bremen... Industry in Cologne destroyed...]. Photograph: [Lubeck after the attack of English bombers]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. l79 1942 June 1656 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 179... People's vote... The program of the German patriots...]. Photograph: [Everywhere the letter "F" is seen in Germany]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE WAHRHEIT über den sowjetisch-englischen Vertrag und das 1657 sowjetisch-amerikanische Abkommen... 1942 June Scope and Content Note 16x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about the Soviet-English treaty and the Soviet-American agreement...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE ZWEITE FRONT WIRD NOCH IM JAHRE 1942 GESCHAFFEN!... 1942 June 1658 Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The Second Front will become a reality in 1942... Now you will soon feel what the Second Front will mean...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 180 1942 June 1659 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Anti-war slogans in the streets of Berlin... Mass executions in Berlin... Hitler is murdering our children...]. Drawing: [Germany awake. Down with Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : STIMMT DAS oder STIMMT DAS NICHT? DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN!... 1942 July 1660 Scope and Content Note 16x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Is this right or is it not? ..]. The leaflet is comparing Hitler's words with his deeds.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die politischen und militarischen Ergebnisse eines Jahres Krieg zwischen... 1942 July 1662 Scope and Content Note 17x24 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [The political and military results of one year of war between Germany and the Soviet-Union...]. The official result of one year of war is published by the Soviet Union. The losses are: Germany 10 million dead and missing, Russia 4.5 million.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Am Krieg mit Sowjetrussland ist Hitler schuld DEUTSCHE MANNER UND FRAUEN! 1669 Mehr... 1942 July Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 4 - green - preservation: 2, damage on edge 0escription: [Hitler is guilty for waging the war against Soviet Russia...]. The official documents presented in this leaflet contradict Hitler who is insisting the Soviet-Union started the war. Dissemination was intended inside Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...]. The leaflet is printed without a safe conduct.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 95 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 181 1942 July 1675 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 181... Every day it is getting worse... Anti-Hitler slogans in the streets of Düsseldorf... Sabotage in a chemical factory...]. Drawing: [A picture from the Nazi-paradise.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 207 1942 July 1676 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose or green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 207... Churchill's declaration... New mass attack of the English air force on Bremen... Mutiny of a German regiment in France... Growing fight of Dutch partisans against Hitler...]. Photograph: [American troops which landed in Northern Ireland are ready to fight.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Im Krieg mit Russland werdet Ihr alles verlieren und nichts gewinnen!... 1942 July 1678 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [In the war with Russia you will lose everything and will win nothing! German men and women!...]. Dissemination was intended inside Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...]. The leaflet was printed without a safe conduct.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 212 1942 July 1685 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 212... How many Germans has Hitler sent to their death in front of Sebastopol... Vast losses of the Germans near Kursk. Mountains of corpses of German soldiers are lying on the battle fields...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 182 1942 July 1686 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 182... Again new strikes of workers... SS-men are molesting the wives of soldiers. The German people are demanding peace and freedom…]. Drawing: [The German people against Hitler.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : RUSSLAND IST NICHT ZU BESIEGEN. DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN!... 1942 July 1688 Scope and Content Note 17x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Russia cannot be defeated! German soldiers! Read what the great Germans have said Friedrich the Great, Clausewitz, Bismarck, Moltke…]. Five portrait drawings.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE SOLDATEN sind an der FRONT, DIE SS IM HINTERLAND... 1942 July 1689 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The soldiers are at the front, the SS is in the rear area... Soldiers remember the SS are kept in the rear area in Germany to keep those silent who open their mouths demanding peace and bread, those who call you to come back home, those who wait for you...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : So oder So. RATSCHLÄGE AN DIE DEUTSCHEN SOLDATEN. Wie gibt man... 1942 July 1694 Scope and Content Note 12x20 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Advice to the German soldiers. How to become a POW?... This is not easy. The Gestapo sniffer dogs and the Nazi superiors are always watching you... Take our advice and you will stay alive...]. Photomontage: [This way or that way.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 96 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Ich klage Hitler an!... 1942 July 1695 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [I accuse Hitler!]. Photomontage, on reverse poem by Erich Weinert [I accuse! I am the voice of the dead millions!...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DIE WAHRHEIT über die russische KRIEGSGEFANGENSCHAFT... 1942 July 1696 Scope and Content Note 17x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about Russian captivity... Listen, what your comrade said about Russian captivity...]. Four photographs about the lives of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Gegen Russland zogen Eure Vorfahren, die... 1942 July 1702 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Your ancestors the "Teutonic Order" fought against Russia... Napoleon, Wilhelm II, Hitler... Russia is insurmountable!...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Hitler versprach Euch Sieg und Frieden schon... 1942 July 1703 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Hitler promised you victory and peace for 1941. He has cheated you...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Nicht der siegt, der eine einzelne Schlacht... 1942 July 1704 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Victorious is not the one who wins a single battle but he who wins the war... Hitler's case is hopeless...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Hitler wird vernichtet! DEUTSCHE... 1942 July 1709 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler will be annihilated!... Hitler cannot win...]. Dissemination was intended inside Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...]. The leaflet is without a safe conduct.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Nie wird Vater wiederkommen: Hitler hat ihn uns genommen!... 1942 July 1722 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Daddy will never come back Hitler has taken him from us!]. Poem by Erich Weinert on reverse of leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 3 : STIMMT DAS oder STIMMT DAS NICHT? DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN!... 1942 July 1725 Scope and Content Note 16x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Is this right or is it not? ..]. The leaflet is comparing Hitler's words with his deeds. Dissemination was intended inside Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...] The leaflet is printed without a safe conduct.
Box/Item No.: 3 : EIN JAHR KRIEG DEUTSCHLANDS... SOWJETRUSSLAND Deutsche Männer und... 1942 1726 July Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 4 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [One year of Germany's war against Soviet Russia... The 22nd June 1941 will be remembered as a "black sunday"... What is the balance of one year of war? ..]. Dissemination was intended inside Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...] The leaflet was printed without a safe conduct.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 97 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 49 1942 July 1730 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 49... Work in camp No. 99... Letter to those at home...]. Photograph: German POWs reading their camp newspaper.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 213 1942 July 1731 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 213 ... Enormous German losses near Voronezh... Attack of the Russian air force on Königsberg...]. Photograph: German POWs in the reading room of their camp.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 209 1942 July 1733 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 209... Increase of weapons production in England... Finland cannot continue the war...]. Photograph: [Continually American weapons arrive in Russia... Unloading of American tanks in a Russian port]
Box/Item No.: 3 : AN DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK! Landsleute! Männer und Frauen! In ernster... 1942 July 1738 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [To the German people! Countrymen! Men and women! In this dangerous hour, we German officers and soldiers in the Soviet-Union turn to you... No peace with Hitler...]. Two pages of facsimile signatures of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 210 1942 July 1739 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper; [News from Foreign Countries No. 210 Arrival of American troops in Northern Ireland. The English fleet is ready to land troops on the continent...] Photograph: [New American troops are arriving in Northern Ireland.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 185 1942 July 1742 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: Erroneously the code printed on the leaflet is 4712 [Anti-war leaflets in German cities... What is happening in Germany?... No. 185... You do have to come back.. We may die from hunger]. Drawing: [Bread! Bread!]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 214 1942 July 1745 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 214... Destruction of the German divisions near Voronezh... Russian bombers over Königsberg... Success of the Soviet air force ... German soldiers refuse to fight...] Photograph: [German POWs in Russian captivity. After the war they will return to their loved ones]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 53 1942 July 1747 Scope and Content Note 16x21 ern - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 53... We do not doubt Russians take good care of POWs... I got well again in captivity... They told us lies about the Red Army...]. Photograph: German POWs receive food.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 98 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 215 1942 August 1763 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 215... Germany is in the West not protected... Enormous losses at the Eastern front... In one week 503 German aircraft destroyed...]. Photomontage: [You will be the next one!]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 186 1942 August 1765 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 186... Königsberg in flames... Not much left in Rostock… Cologne destroyed... Message of the commander of the British air force to the German people...]. Air Marshal of the RAF is addressing the Germans, see also British leaflet G. 41/1942. Photograph: A marching column of German POWs. [Only captivity guarantees, you will stay alive and will return safely]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 54 1942 August 1767 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 54... We believe Stalin's order No. 55... Here everything is different and better than we had expected... Listen to our radio broadcasts in the German language...]. Photograph: German POWs in a Russian hospital.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 216 1942 August 1780 Scope and Content Note 21x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 216... Hitler is thinning out Germany... losses of the Germans in the Southern part of Russia. .. Without fear into Russian captivity...] Photograph: [These are those who survived from a German mechanized regiment. Now they march to a POW camp]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 55 1942 August 1781 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 55... How a group of 60 soldiers surrendered ...Greetings to relatives and friends in Dessau...]. Photograph: German POWs are resting after working in a field.
Box/Item No.: 3 : 10 GEBOTE DIE JEDER DEUTSCHE Soldat... 1942 August 1782 Scope and Content Note 10x21 cm - 4 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [10 commandments which every soldier has to know. Remember! The order of the Council of the Peoples Commissars of the USSR guarantees all POWs their life, good treatment, information of relatives and the return home after the war... It is always helpful to have a Russian leaflet. If you don't have one just raise your hands and speak loud and clear "RUSS, SDAIUS!"] 6 drawings by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Papi ist tot. Klag Hitler an! Der hat es getan! Zögere keinen Augenblick!... 1942 1790 August Scope and Content Note 22x15 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Daddy is dead. Accuse Hitler! He did it! Do not hesitate a minute! Tomorrow it will be too late!]. Photomontage.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 99 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Nie wird Vater wiederkommen: Hitler hat ihn uns genommen! Soldat, vergiss das 1791 nicht!... 1942 July Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Daddy will never come back. Hitler has taken him from us! Soldier, do not forget that! Offensive means: DEATH...]. Photomontage, see leaflet code 1722.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 188 1942 August 1792 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 188... Letter to sergeant... The despair of a German mother...]. Photomontage: [The soldiers fall. The stocks are rising]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 56 1942 August 1793 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 56... Three German fighter pilots desert to the Russians... Their aircraft had enough gasoline and was in good order... Declaration of the German pilots... A letter of a German soldier has reached his relatives...] Photograph: [German POWs in Russian captivity are playing chess...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 218 1942 August 1798 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 218... Mighty offensive of the Red Army... Heavy losses of the Germans at the river Don...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : 12. August 1942. An die Kameraden der 161. Inf. Division, der 14... 1942 August 1799 Scope and Content Note 17x25 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: The leaflet is handwritten it contains a three-page-list of facsimile signatures of German POWs. [Dear Comrades! I am sure you are thinking about us, who had been taken prisoner... We have been treated well· especially by the Commissars...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 189 1942 August 1800 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 189... What have the AEG worker and what have the employers won by this war?... The best goods are for the Plutocrats...] Caricature: [Goering: yes, war is hard business]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 214 1942 August 1801 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 214... Declaration of the commander of the American troops in Europe... Successful fights of the Yugoslav partisan army... People's revenge take the lives of Hitler's and Gestapo men... After the murder of Heydrich the chief of the Gestapo in Agram was killed... French partisans are fighting Hitler fascists in Paris...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : SONDERMELDUNG EINE BEGEGNUNG VON WELTHISTORISCHER... 1942 August 1802 Scope and Content Note 17x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement. A meeting of world historic importance. The three biggest world powers agreed on the strategic and complete destruction of Hitler...Telegram of Churchill to Stalin...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 100 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 215 1942 August 1823 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 215... Russia, England and the USA reached an agreement on the strategic offensive against Germany... 50000 armed French partisans are ready to fight Hitler...]. Photograph: [English 16-ton-tanks, type Valentine. They are the equipment of one of the many English tank divisions]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 220 1942 August 1825 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 220... The Soviet air force attacked Danzig, Königsberg and Tilsit] Photograph: [On the Eastern front: German soldiers surrender and save their lives.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 221 1942 August 1826 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 221... A complete German company is surrendering... Soldiers find ways and means to get away] Three portrait photographs of German pilots having flown into Russian captivity.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Der Dank des Führers... 1942 August 1830 Scope and Content Note 14x16 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Read, about the fate of a soldier's family...]. The soldier's mother informs him how his wife was not able to work on the farm alone and tried to commit suicide. Her life is saved but she is turned over to an insane asylum and was sterilized there. Facsimile of letters describing the drama and sterilization of the wife of a German soldier.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Die Wahrheit über die Fliegerangriffe auf deutsche Städte DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN!... 1833 1942 August Scope and Content Note 14x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about air raids on German cities... The Soviet air force attacked cities and industrial centers in East Prussia, Upper Silesia and Poland... The Soviet air force lost not one single airplane...]. Drawing: Hitler and Goebbels attack Soviet airplanes with printers ink.
Box/Item No.: 3 : 10 FRAGEN UND ANTWORTEN Warum werfen wir gleichzeitig Bomben und Flugblätter 1834 ab? 1942 August Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [10 Questions and answers 1. Why do we disseminate bombs and leaflets at the same time? Because we want to destroy your armament industry and because we want to tell you the truth about the war...]. Note: Dissemination of leaflets are rarely mentioned on leaflets themselves.
Box/Item No.: 3 : SONDERMELDUNG des... Die Sowjettruppen im Vormarsch... 1942 August 1837 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of the Bureau of Information of the Soviet-Union. Soviet troops are advancing... In the region of Kalinin...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 101 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 222 1942 August 1847 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 222. Offensive of the Red Army on the Middle and Kalinin front... German officers are leaving Hitler's army... 542 German airplanes had been destroyed... A German pilot deserted by flying over to the Red Army...] Photograph: [German POWs captured during recent fighting]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was lehrt die Landungsaktion von Dieppe? 1942 August 1848 Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! LASST EUCH RATEN: RUFT DEN RUSSEN... 1942 August 1850 Scope and Content Note 23x16 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Take our advice: Call out to the Russians: "SDAIUS TOVARISCH, NE STRELAITE"...] Photomontage and poem by Erich Weinert: [Do not wait longer]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 60 1942 September 1853 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 2, edge damaged. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 60... He is looking at the picture of his beloved child. He knows: as soon as the war is over...]. 9 photographs: German POWs are well cared for in Russian captivity.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 216 1942 September 1855 Scope and Content Note 17x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 216... Brazil declared war on Germany... 50,000 armed French partisans are ready to fight Hitler...] Photograph: [English 16-ton-tanks, type Valentine. They are the armament of one of the many English tank divisions.]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Es langt nicht mehr - nicht hin, nicht her! Deutsche Männer und Frauen!... 1942 1856 September Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [It's not enough by far! German men and women! At the price of hundred thousands of German soldiers Hitler succeeded to advance in the Southern part of the Eastern front ... Write your relatives at the front to surrender...]. Dissemination was intended inside Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...]. The leaflet was printed without a safe conduct.
Box/Item No.: 3 : AUSLÄNDER NEHMEN DEINEN PLATZ EIN! 1942 September 1857 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of pornographic leaflet: [Foreigners take your place... Some of them have all possible types of venereal disease... It could happen to you coming home and being met by a black haired bastard. You would have the pleasure to raise this child...]. Two drawings by Erich Weinert: [While you sit in a bunker your wife is having fun with a foreigner.]. See also leaflet code 1910.
Box/Item No.: 3 : An die deutschen Rüstungsarbeiter im Waffenrock! 1942 September 1858 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [To the German workers in armament factories in uniform!... In the face of death think about this... The war is for the rich. The soldiers provide the corpses.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 102 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 191 1942 September 1870 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 191... The German people want peace... Acts of sabotage in Germany... Mass executions in Berlin. Anti-war demonstrations in a cinema in Berlin ] Drawing: [Down with Hitler! Down with the war...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wann ist der Krieg zu Ende?... 1942 September 1876 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [When will the war end?...]. Dissemination was intended inside Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...], without a safe conduct.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 217 1942 September 1892 Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 217 Greece Yugoslavia... France Belgium Norway...]. Map: [Yugoslavia in August 1942...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Du denkst, wenn du gefangen bist, Dann... 1942 September 1899 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [You think if you are in captivity, you cannot write to your mother...] Poem by Erich Weinert. Two-language safe conduct on reverse.
Box/Item No.: 3 : WIE SIE WIRKLICH DENKEN (Aus dem Tagebuch des Obersten Schilling... 1942 1902 September Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [How they really think. From the diary of Colonel Schilling...]. Excerpts and facsimile of a diary. This is a forgery by the Soviet propagandists, i.e. a "black" propaganda leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 3 : DEUTSCHLAND OHNE DEUTSCHE Deutsche Soldaten! Während Ihr... 1942 September 1910 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of pornographic leaflet: [Germany without Germans. German soldiers! While you are perishing in far away countries the German cities and villages are populated by foreigners... Foreigners take your place in the work shop, in the fields. Foreigners are sleeping with your women and make them children, infect them with venereal disease. The luck of your family is gone...]. Two drawings by Erich Weinert: [While you sit in a bunker your wife is having fun with a foreigner.] See also leaflet code 1857, different text.
Box/Item No.: 3 : 73 deutsche Divisionen im Sommer 1942 an der Ostfrontvernichtet... 1942 1911 September Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [73 German divisions destroyed in summer 1942 at the Eastern front ... You will not escape a new winter in Russia! You will not escape your decline...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wen die Kugel verschont, den packt der weisse Tod. Deutsche Soldaten! 1942 1931 September Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Those who are being spared by the bullet will be caught by death ... Think about the Russian winter in 19411... The retreat in 1942 will bring you a catastrophe...] Two photomontages: soldiers dying in the snow.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 103 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wer ist Hitler? Frontsoldat! Du weisst nicht, was heute in der Heimat... 1942 1932 September Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Who is Hitler... You don't know what is known at home... Germany will rise, down with Hitler!...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 61 1942 October 1950 Scope and Content Note 14x18 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 61... German soldiers! Your officers and the Goebbels propaganda feed you with impertinent lies about Russian captivity. Read and see how your comrades are being treated in Russian captivity...]. Six photographs: German POWs in Russian captivity.
Box/Item No.: 3 : EINE NEUE HITLERLÜGE Soldaten! Hitler lügt, wenn er in seiner Rede... 1942 October 1953 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [A new lie of Hitler. Soldiers! Hitler is lying... when he tells the soldier: "You can be assured. Behind you is your home town which will never let you down." What an impertinent cynical lie...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : FÜR RADIOSTATIONEN UND - LAUTSPRECHERANLAGEN... Was treibt die SS?... 1942 1962 October Scope and Content Note 12x23 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [For radio stations and loudspeaker installations... What is the SS up to?... Poem by Erich Weinert. What does Hitler need the SS for?... Letters from Germany about the SS… News from foreign countries...]. Note: This is not a leaflet! The text was used for vocal communication only. The Soviet Government used, together with its leaflets, radio broadcasts and also sent messages by loudspeaker trying to influence German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Wie sorgt Hitler für die Kriegsinvaliden?... 1942 October 1971 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [How Hitler is caring for the war invalids... In Germany only 45 of 100 wounded soldiers can continue to serve in the Wehrmacht. The others die or remain cripples... Hitler does not care about the war cripples...]. Drawing: the cripple is not allowed in a restaurant.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Eine ernste Warnung. DEUTSCHE... 1942 October 1977 Scope and Content Note 10x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [An important warning. On 4th October, 1942 Goering declared: "The loss of the war means annihilation for the German people. The Nazi big wigs feel their unavoidable decline coming. They intend to tie their own fate to that of the German people...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 218 1942 October 1978 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 218... In front of Stalingrad hundred thousands of Germans have died... General Guderian died at the Eastern front... German soldiers and officers deserted from Hitler's army... Massive unrest in France...]. Photograph: [Mass production of airplanes in the USA.].
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Box/Item No.: 3 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 193 1942 October 1989 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: - [What is happening in Germany? No. 193... Lübeck was turned to a heap of rubble... What the soldier on furlough can expect at home... Wiesbaden, Mainz and Schierstein in flames...]. Drawing.
Box/Item No.: 3 : Ihr kamt zwar nach Russland hinein... 1942 October 2001 Scope and Content Note 21x13 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [It was possible for you to enter Russia but you will not leave it alive!... Many wanted to conquer Russia but all these undertakings ended with the destruction of their armies... The lesson of history is: Russia cannot be defeated...]. Five drawings by Erich Weinert, caption: [Winter is coming, 50 degrees, Your DEATH, SOLDIER!]
Box/Item No.: 3 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 223 1942 November 2016 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 223 ... Stalingrad frustrated Hitler's plan for this summer... The battle for Stalingrad is the turning point of the whole war...]. Caricature: [Hitler is getting nervous about Stalingrad...]
Box/Item No.: 3 : ROMMELS ARMEE AUFS HAUPT GESCHLAGEN. Die nordafrikanische Küste von... 1942 2047 November Scope and Content Note 13x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Rommel's army hit on the head. The North African coast occupied by English and American troops…the complete Mediterranean sea in the hands of England and America...]. Map of North Africa.
Box/Item No.: 4 : WAS HAT STALIN GESAGT? Die Ziele der Sowjetunion im Kriege gegen Hitler... 1942 2082 November Scope and Content Note 17x13 cm - paper: blue, paper: green - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Excerpts from Stalin's speech on the 25th year of the Bolshevik revolution. [The aims of the Soviet-Union in the war against Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : WAS HAT STALIN GESAGT? Zwei Koalitionen - zwei Programme... 1942 November 2083 Scope and Content Note 17x13 cm - paper: red, paper: rose - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Excerpts from Stalin's speech on the 25th year of the Bolshevik revolution. [Two coalitions - two programs...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : WAS HAT STALIN GESAGT? Zusammenbruch des strategischen... 1942 November 2084 Scope and Content Note 17x13 cm - paper: blue, paper: rose - 2 - preservation: 1- 11.1942 - description: Excerpts from Stalin's speech on the 25th year of the Bolshevik revolution. [Breakdown of Hitler's strategic plan...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : DEUTSCHE MATROSEN! Eure unfähige Leitung hat sich bitter verrechnet... 1942 2088 November Scope and Content Note 12x18cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German sailors! Your incompetent leadership made a severe mistake. They told you the USA would never be able to transport its troops across the ocean...]. Note: Leaflets addressed directly to sea or air men are rarely seen, it is difficult to reach them.
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Box/Item No.: 4 : Der englisch-amerikanische Vormarsch in Afrika ist das Vorspiel zur... 1942 2096 November Scope and Content Note 12x15cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The English-American advance in Africa is the overture for the Second Front. What happened in Africa...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 195 1942 November 2097 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 195... The SS is ruling in Germany… The SS is Hitler's weapon against the German Army..]. Poem and caricature: [What is an SS-man?...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Der Sturz des Hitlerstaates ist Eure Rettung... 1942 November 2098 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [The deposal of Hitler's state will save you... What did Hitler's state bring you?...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : ERFOLGREICHE OFFENSIVE DER SOWJETTRUPPEN IM RAUM VON Stalingrad... 1942 2100 November Scope and Content Note 11x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Successful offensive of the Soviet troops in the area of Stalingrad?... In three days of fighting 12,000 prisoners had been brought in... The offensive will be continued...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Rettet Euch, ehe es zu spät ist!... Im Raum von Stalingrad ist die Rote Armee zur... 2108 SOLDATEN DES MITTELABSCHNITTS... 1942 November Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Save yourselves before it is too late!... In the area of Stalingrad the Red Army has started its offensive... To the soldiers of the middle part of the Eastern front...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Rettet Euch, ehe es zu spät ist!... Im Raum von Stalingrad ist die Rote Armee zur ... 2109 SOLDATEN DER NORDGRUPPE... 1942 November Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose or green - preservation: 1. Description: [Save yourselves before it is too late!... In the area of Stalingrad the Red Army has started its offensive... To the soldiers of the Northern group of the Eastern front...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Rettet Euch, ehe es zu spät ist!... Im Raum von Stalingrad ist die Rote Armee zur... 2110 SOLDATEN DES SUDABSCHNITTS... 1942 November Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Save yourselves before it is too late!... In the area of Stalingrad the Red Army has started its offensive... To the soldiers of the Southern part of the Eastern front...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG DIE OFFENSIVE DER SOWJETTRUPPEN IM RAUM VON STALINGRAD 2113 WIRD FORTGESETZT... 1942 November Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement… The offensive in the area of Stalingrad will be continued... 24,000 POWs taken so far...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 106 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : An die im Raum von Stalingrad eingekesselten... 1942 November 2117 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [To the surrounded German troops in the area of Stalingrad...] Map: Area of Stalingrad.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Offensive der Roten Armee dauert an... 1942 November 2118 Scope and Content Note 10x13 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The offensive of the Red Army continues... in the area of Stalingrad...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG DER VORMARSCH DER ROTEN ARMEE... 1942 November 2126 Scope and Content Note 11x13 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement. The offensive of the Red Army in the area of Stalingrad continues. During 25th November...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 26. November DER VORMARSCH DER ROTEN... 1942 November 2127 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 26th November. The offensive of the Red Army in the area of Stalingrad continues. During 26th November... 63000 enemy soldiers and officers have been taken prisoners]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Hitlerarmee vor STALINGRAD... 1942 November 2133 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's army in front of Stalingrad destroyed... 70,000 soldiers and officers on the Stalingrad front are now in Russian POWs camps]
Box/Item No.: 4 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! LASST EUCH RATEN: RUFT DEN RUSSEN ZU... Gefangenschaft 2134 ist Eure Rettung!... 1942 November Scope and Content Note 23x16 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Take our advice: Call out to the Russians: "SDAIUS, TOVARISCHI, NE STRELAITE"... Captivity will save your life...]. Photomontage, see also leaflet code 1850. Map: Stalingrad.
Box/Item No.: 4 : "Lebensraum im Osten." Weihnachtslied DES LANDSERS... 1942 November 2137 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: ["Living space in the East" /Christmas carol for the German soldier. Sad night, horrible night! Everybody is sleeping, lonely watching is the German soldier in the icy wind... 70,000 of your comrades surrendered in the last week of November...]. Poem by Erich Weinert on reverse.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Ein neuer Schlag gegen die deutsche Armee die Offensive der Roten Armee an... 2142 1942 November Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [A new blow against the German army. The offensive of the Red Army on the middle front began...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 29. November DER VORMARSCH DER SOWJETTRUPPEN DAUERT 2149 AN. Im Raum von Stalingrad... 1942 November Scope and Content Note 11x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 29th November. The offensive of Soviet troops is continuing. In the area of Stalingrad...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 107 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung 30. November 1942 Die Truppen der Roten Armee rücken weiter 2154 vor... 1942 November Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 30th November. The troops of the Red Army continue to advance. In the area of Stalingrad...]. Map: Stalingrad area.
Box/Item No.: 4 : 70,000 DEUTSCHE UND RUMÄNISCHE SOLDATEN RETTETEN SICH DURCH DIE... 1942 2171 November Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [70,000 German and Rumanian soldiers saved their lives from the Stalingrad bone crusher by becoming Russian POWs.... You can choose: LIFE or senseless DEATH].
Box/Item No.: 4 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Am 6. November sagte Stalin: "Die zweite Front..." 1942 2173 November Scope and Content Note 10x13 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! On 6th November Stalin said: "The Second Front is coming!" On 8th November Americans and Englishmen landed in Africa...]. Drawing: Comparison of German and Allied armed forces.
Box/Item No.: 4 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Den Krieg gewinnt nicht, wer am Anfang des... 1942 2174 November Scope and Content Note 10x13 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! The war is not won by the one who is successful in the beginning but...]. Drawing: Comparison of armed forces...
Box/Item No.: 4 : Henker Himmler, Hitlers Herzblättchen... 1942 November 2175 Scope and Content Note 10x13 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hangman Himmler, Hitler's darling; Hitler's state is not the state of the German people. NO! This is the state of the Gestapo and the SS...]. Drawing.
Box/Item No.: 4 : MACHT ES WIE EURE 70,000... Was ist bei Stalingrad geschehen? Bei Stalingrad... 2177 1942 November Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Do as your 70,000 comrades did!... What happened near Stalingrad?...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : DIE LEHRE VON STALINGRAD... 1942 November 2178 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The lesson from Stalingrad... 70,000 of your comrades jumped out of the war. All of them are feeling well...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : 70,000 DEUTSCHE UND RUMÄNISCHE SOLDATEN RETTETEN SICH DURCH DIE... 1942 2179 November Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper rose - preservation: 1. Description: [70,000 German and Romanian soldiers saved their lives from the Stalingrad bone crusher by becoming Russian POWs.... You can choose: LIFE or senseless DEATH]
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Box/Item No.: 4 : Wie die Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetrussland leben Nr. 63 1942 November 2188 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [How the POWs are living in Soviet Russia No. 63... Christmas, the holidays of love and peace...]. 4 photographs: German POWs are well cared for in Russian captivity and celebrate Christmas.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 13. Dezember KRIEGSBEUTE DER... 1942 November 2203 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 13th December: Booty of the Soviet troops and losses of Hitler's army. 1. Stalingrad...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 20. Dezember Offensive der Sowjettruppen... 1942 December 2242 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 20th December. Offensive of the Soviet troops at the river Don...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung, 20. Dezember 1942. Am mittleren Lauf des Don geht... 1942 2246 December Scope and Content Note 10x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 20th December 1942. Continued offensive of the Soviet troops at the river Don...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung 22. Dezember 1942. Neue Erfolge der Offensive der Roten... 1942 2255 December Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement 22nd December 1942. New successes of the Red Army at the river Don...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : An unsere Kameraden im Kessel von Stalingrad! Wir richten an Euch dieses... 1942 2265 December Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [for our comrades in the pocket of Stalingrad...]. German POWs are addressing their comrades still fighting in Stalingrad. The declaration is typewritten and includes about 100 facsimile signatures.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 24. Dezember 1942... 1942 December 2268 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement 24th December 1942. The offensive of the troops of the Red Army at the river Don continues...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Gruss AUS RUSSISCHER... 1942 December 2272 Scope and Content Note 14x18 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Greetings from Russian captivity... German soldiers! 33 of your comrades, countrymen greet you... These are just a few of about 150,000 soldiers of the German army... Stalingrad... Follow their example!...]. Five photographs of German POWs.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 109 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : An die deutschen Soldaten der Mittelfront! Kameraden! Wir sind im August... 1942 2273 December Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [for the German soldiers of the middle Front... The Russian offensives at the same time in Stalingrad, at the Don and in Caucasia are proof of the enormous power...]. Names and addresses of German POWs are provided.
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 25. Dezember 1942. DIE OFFENSIVE DER... 1942 December 2285 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 25th December 1942. The offensive of the Soviet troops at the river Don continues...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Nr. 3244 VERZEICHNIS der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der UdSSR... 1942 2289 December Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Register of German POWs in the Soviet-Union. German soldiers! Use the addresses given here to inform the relatives of your comrades that they are feeling fine in Soviet captivity...]. Note: providing addresses and urging the finder of the leaflet to do his "duty" and informing relatives resulted quite often in conflicts for recipients. The German Wehrmacht could at best report the soldier as missing in action - but on the other hand many of the soldiers on these lists had been dead a long time ago.
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG 26. Dezember 1942. Die Offensive der... 1942 December 2291 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement 26th December 1942. The offensive of the Soviet troops at the river Don continues...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 28. Dezember 1942. Der Vormarsch der... 1942 December 2296 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 28th December 1942. The advancement of the Soviet troops in the South of Stalingrad...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : An die im Raum von Stalingrad eingekesselten Offiziere und Soldaten der... 1942 2301 December Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [To the officers and soldiers of the German Wehrmacht in the pocket of Stalingrad...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 29. Dezember 1942... 1942 December 2303 Scope and Content Note 7x11 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 29th December 1942 Kotelnikowo taken by Soviet troops...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Ergebnisse von sechs Wochen Offensivkämpfen der Truppen der Roten... 1942 2306 December Scope and Content Note 20x26 cm - 4 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Results of six weeks of offensive of the Red Army in the area of Stalingrad...]. Map of Stalingrad and area.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 110 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 1. Januar 1943. Welikije Luki von der Roten Armee... 1942 2311 December Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 1st January 1943 Welikije Luki taken by Soviet troops...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geschah im Süden Russlands? Soldaten der Mittelfront! 1943 January 2331 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 1.1943 description: [What happened in the South of Russia?...]. Map: Stalingrad far away from the front line.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 5. Januar 1943... 1943 January 2334 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 5th January 1943. Maltschik... taken by Soviet troops...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Nr. 3245 VERZEICHNIS der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der UdSSR... 1942 2336 December Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Register of German POWs in the Soviet-Union German soldiers! Use the addresses given here to inform the relatives of your comrades that they are feeling fine in Soviet captivity...See also leaflet code 2289.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Katastrophe der Hitlerarmee hat begonnen. DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! 1943 January 2337 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [The catastrophe of Hitler's army has started...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die haben weitergekämpft und wurden vernichtet!... 1943 January 2338 Scope and Content Note 19x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [They continued to fight in Velikie Luki and were destroyed. They laid down their arms and will return home. What happened in Velikie Luki?...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Wahrheit über Welikije... 1943 January 2341 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about Velikie Luki...]. List and facsimiles of signatures of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 6. Januar... 1943 January 2342 Scope and Content Note 10x12 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 6th January 1943 144,150 soldiers and officers of the German Army have surrendered in the area of Stalingrad...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was hat Roosevelt gesagt?... 1943 January 2349 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The American President Roosevelt promised on 7th January, 1943 to produce within one year: 48,000 aircraft... 56,000 tanks... 670,000 machine guns and bring the strength of the US Army to 7 million men...]
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Box/Item No.: 4 : Sondermeldung vom 11. Januar 1943 Georgijewsk, Mineralnye Wody... 1943 January 2350 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 11th January 1943 Georgijewsk, Mineralnye Wody... have been taken by the Red Army...]. Map of the Caucasian region.
Box/Item No.: 4 : IHR WERDET UM DIE SCHLAGE (sic) DER ROTEN ARMEE NICHT... 1943 January 2356 Scope and Content Note 12x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [You will not escape the blows of the Red Army...]. Drawing: [Soldiers! It will be also your turn!]. German soldiers sitting in a bunker will also be flushed out by Red Army troops.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wie war es?... Die Delegation der... 1943 January 2358 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [How did it come about?... The delegation of the German soldiers agree with the Russians to become POWs...]. Photograph: German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wie war es?... Eine Gruppe deutscher... 1943 January 2359 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [A group of German soldiers is surrendering...]. Photograph: German soldiers.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wie war es?... Deutsche Soldaten geben... 1943 January 2360 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [How did it come about?... German soldiers are surrendering...]. Photograph: German soldiers. Soldaten! Auch an Euch kommt die Reihe!
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 16. Januar 1943 1943 January 2364 Scope and Content Note 19x26 cm - 4 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 16th January, 1943. German defence line near Voronezh broken. Liquidation of German troops in the Stalingrad pocket to be ended...].
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 18. Januar 1943. Die Blockade Leningrads von der Roten 2370 Armee... 1943 January Scope and Content Note 13x16 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 18th January, 1943. The Red Army broke the blockade of Leningrad ...]. Two maps.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wie sieht es an der sowjetisch-deutschen Front aus? Aus den Mitteilungen... 1943 2373 January Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [What is the situation at the Soviet German front? The blockade of Leningrad is broken...]. Map: Kharkov-Stalingrad.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Befehl des Obersten Befehlshabers der Roten Armee... J. Stalin... 1943 January 2376 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin order... 25th January, 1943]. Map: Kharkov - Stalingrad. [Frontline 25th January 1943.]
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Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 26. Januar 1943 Die Liquidierung... Stalingrad... 1943 January 2378 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 26th January, 1943. Liquidation of the Fascist German troops in the pocket of Stalingrad almost completed...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Englisch-amerikanisches Kommuniqué 1943 January 2379 Scope and Content Note 10x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [English-American announcement. On 27th January... Meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Casablanca... Offensive against Germany and Italy will start in 1943...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Warum weinst du, Mutti? 1943 January 2380 Scope and Content Note 19x15 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Mama, why do you cry? By Erich Weinert]. Photomontage, poem, commentary [In the last three months the Red Army destroyed 112 fascist German divisions... 700,000 dead and 300,000 soldiers captured..]
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 29. Januar 1943 1943 January 2381 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 29th January, 1943. Successful offensive of Soviet troops near Voronezh...]. Map: Kharkov-Stalingrad. [Frontline on 29th January 1943]
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 3. Februar 1943 1943 January 2392 Scope and Content Note 11x14 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 3rd February, 1943. The Red Army occupied the towns Krasny Liman...]. Map: Kharkov-Stalingrad. [Frontline on 3rd February 1943.]
Box/Item No.: 4 : An das deutsche Volk!... Generalfeldmarschall Paulus... 1943 January 2393 Scope and Content Note 24x16 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [To the German people... General Field Marshal Paulus carried two revolvers and poison while in Stalingrad... As shown here, General Field Marshall Paulus is in Russian captivity and he is feeling well and healthy...]. Photograph: Interrogation of Generalfieldmarshal Paulus by a Russian Marshal and a General.
Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 6. Februar 1943 1943 January 2399 Scope and Content Note 11x16 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 6th February, 1943. Soviet troops continued their offensive on all fronts...]. Map: Kharkov-Stalingrad.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Generalfeldmarschall Paulus in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft... 1943 January 2400 Scope and Content Note 14x12 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Generalfieldmarshal Paulus in Russian captivity...]. Photograph, see also leaflet code 2393.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Sowjettruppen besetzten Kursk und nähern sich Charkow... 1943 January 2401 Scope and Content Note 11x16 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The Soviet troops occupied Kursk and approach Kharkov...] Map: Dnjepropetrowsk - Stalingrad.
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Box/Item No.: 4 : SONDERMELDUNG vom 12. Februar 1943 1943 January 2404 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: green or rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Special announcement of 12th February, 1943. Soviet troops occupied the towns of Krasnodar, Schachty, Woroschilowsk and Krasnoarmejskoje...]. Map: Dnjepropetrowsk-Stalingrad.
Box/Item No.: 4 : 24 deutsche Generäle in russischer Gefangenschaft... Was ist vor Stalingrad... 1943 2405 January Scope and Content Note 21x27 cm - 2 - paper: brown - preservation: 1. Description: [24 German generals in Russian captivity... What happened near Stalingrad?...] 26 portrait photographs of German POW generals, two drawings.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Warum ist Grossadmiral Raeder gegangen? Deutsche Matrosen! Am 30. Januar 1943 2408 hat Hitler den... 1943 February Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Why did Admiral Raeder go? German sailors!... More than half of the German fleet has been sunk or is not serviceable...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt [Nr. 1 Februar 1943] 1943 February 2414 Scope and Content Note 18x24 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No.1 February 1943], running number and date are not printed on the leaflet: [German soldiers! Of the 330,000 soldiers in the pocket of Stalingrad 91,000 have saved themselves by becoming Russian POWs...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 196 1943 February 2415 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 196... Hitler is sending 15 year olds to the front... The fate of a German family... German workers are forced to work 14 hours daily...]. Photomontage: Mama, why do you cry? Drawing by Erich Weinert: [Air raid shelter]
Box/Item No.: 4 : WAS HAT STALIN IM BEFEHL Nr. 95... 1943 March 2417 Scope and Content Note 19x15 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [What did Stalin say in his order No. 95?... Does the Red Army really intend to destroy Germany?
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 220 1943 March 2420 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 220... Another German strong point taken... 1943 is the year of the two-front-war... The Italian-German block is tumbling...]. Caricature: [Are these the reserves of Hitler?]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 224 1943 March 2422 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 224 . Situation on the Soviet-German from on 10th March 1943 The fortress of Demiansk is liquidated... Successes of Soviet troops in the South...]. Map: Königsberg-Moscow.]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 114 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 197 1943 March 2424 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 197... Enormous destructions in Berlin... Hamburg bombed... Attack on Saarbrücken... What a German soldier on furlough found at home...]. Drawing, German civilians are fleeing a bombed city.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 2 1943 March 2426 Scope and Content Note 18x24 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [German POWs in Soviet Russia. No.2 March 1943], running number and date are not printed on the leaflet: [German soldiers! Contrary to the lies of the Goebbels propaganda, it is a fact hundred thousands of your comrades are feeling well in Russian captivity... An officer is speaking. Lieutenant Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, a great-grandson of Bismarck says: "The Russians fight not against defenseless men. They respect the human rights of each POW."]. Four photographs.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was ist vor Stalingrad geschehen? DEUTSCHE MÄNNER UND... 1943 March 2432 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: Dissemination was intended in Germany, see addressee [German men and women!...]. The leaflet is printed without a safe conduct. German civilians are being told about the debacle of the German Wehrmacht suffered in Stalingrad.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Alles mal herhören! Das letzte Aufgebot der Führung heisst jetzt:... 1943 March 2433 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [You all listen!...]. Dissemination was intended in Germany, see addressee [German women and girls!...]. The leaflet is printed without a safe conduct. German women are being told what total mobilization will mean for them. Text and poems by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 198 1943 March 2438 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 198... Soldiers' children are left alone...]. Drawing: Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 4 : "Ist nicht Vati!" 1943 March 2439 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm 2 - brown - preservation: 1. Description: [This is not my Papa! ...]. A child sees a German soldier and is disappointed it is not her father. Photomonage.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 225 1943 March 2440 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 225 ... The situation on the Soviet-German front on 20th March 1943... Spring 1942-Spring 1943... Smolensk in danger...]. Two photographs: "cemetery" of destroyed German tanks, German POWs in Stalingrad.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Entlarvte Lügen des DNB... 1943 March 2446 Scope and Content Note 14x23 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Lies of the German News Agency are detected... The German counterfeiters will continue...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 115 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : So begann Frau Reisinger ihren Brief. Da klingelte es...Erst am nachsten Tag konnte 2447 sie den Brief fortsetzen. Hier folgt... 1943 March Scope and Content Note 12x13 cm - 4 - paper: red, yellow - preservation: 1. Description: this pornographic leaflet tells the detailed story of a soldier's wife and how an SS-man was having intercourse with her, infects her with venereal disease and ridicules her and her husband. The leaflet is made to cause anger in the mind of the reader against Nazi officials. On page four just one short sentence asks: [What will happen now?]. Two drawings.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was haben die Deutschen vom Frühjahr und Sommer zu erwarten? 1943 March 2448 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [What can Germans expect from spring and summer 1943?... It is evident the German army will get weaker and the Soviet army will get stronger...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 199 1943 April 2451 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 199... Who is in Hitler's Germany the lucky and who is the unlucky one?... The total mobilization is the ruin of the middle classes...]. Photomontage: [The fate of a German family.]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 221 1943 April 2452 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 221... Rommel's army in retreat...]. Map: Tunisia.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Ergebnisse des Winterfeldzugs der Roten Armee... 1943 April 2453 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Results of the winter campaign of the Red Army... Enemy losses from 10th November 1941 to 31st March 1943: 343,525 POWs, dead more than 850,000 soldiers and officers...]. Map: Russia, territory liberated.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Denkt einmal nach! DEUTSCHE... 1943 April 2455 Scope and Content Note 10x14cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Think about it!... What is the total result?]
Box/Item No.: 4 : DIE GERETTETEN VON Stalingrad. Ganz Deutschland, Front und... 1943 April 2456 Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The saved from Stalingrad... Against Hitler's order 91,000 German soldiers and officers found their way from the Stalingrad pocket to life... Who are the lucky ones?... Don't hesitate a moment and send the message of joy to all concerned...]. A list of German POWs and their home addresses is published on the leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 4 : 10 Antworten an Goebbels... 1943 April 2457 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose or green - preservation: 1. Description: [10 answers to Goebbels...]. A fictitious German soldier is answering Goebbels who had asked rhetorically the German people if they wanted total war. Author of the text is Erich Weinert. Photomontage.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 116 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Jeder "total mobilisiert" auf seine Weise... 1943 April 2459 Scope and Content Note 21x19 cm - 2 - paper: yellowish - preservation: 1. Description: [Everybody is "mobilizing totally" in his own way.] Goebbels has many women at his disposal, on the other hand elderly women have to work in a factory. Photomontage: Goebbels in the company of women. Photograph: old women at work.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 3 1943 April 2460 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper. German POWs in Soviet Russia No.3 April 1943. They escaped the hell of war. You can see their suffering... But soon they show a happy smile...]. Six photographs, POWs are having a good time.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Hitler verdammt Euch zum sicheren Untergang. Matrosen der deutschen U-Boot 2468 Flotte! 1943 April Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler condemned you to a certain decline... Hitler's army has already lost the war. The war will end with the sinking of your fleet and you own decline!]. The leaflet is printed without a safe conduct, a sailor on a U-boat had been hardly able to use one.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 200 1943 April 2479 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 200... Himmler has ordered this... SS-men can make babies everywhere...]. Two drawings by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 222 1943 April 2482 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 222... North Africa - the start for the Second Front in Europe... Munich looks like a war scene...]. Map: German cities bombed by British and Soviet airplanes.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Toten an die Lebenden... 1943 April 2485 Scope and Content Note 15x24 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [The dead to the living "Comrades! Where ever you are... we step in front of you, we, the shadow of Stalingrad! ... Believe, what we did not believe!... Believe this voice, comrades!" The shadows of Stalingrad are speaking to you!...]. No safe conduct! Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 4 : 10 Gebote die jeder deutsche Soldat... 1943 April 2489 Scope and Content Note 10x22 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: Ten commandments every German soldier has to know. Keep in mind, how you can save yourself... Watch out for traitors, informers and SS-men...]. Ten drawings by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Lasst Euch STALINGRAD eine Lehre... 1943 May 2490 Scope and Content Note 14x21cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Let Stalingrad be a reminder to you!. .. Now they tell you the crisis at the Eastern Front has passed... Do not give in to illusions... These are the lessons from Stalingrad... You can go a different way..'].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 117 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : STALINS Maibefehl. Deutsche Soldaten! Der Oberste Befehlshaber der... 1943 May 2491 Scope and Content Note 14x20cm - 4 - paper: rose, printing: red - preservation: 1. Description: Stalin's order No. 195 on the occasion of May first... Preconditions for victory over Hitler have been set... Hitler's clique is in a heavy crisis and at the edge of a catastrophe... Stalin says: ["The Hitlers come and go but the German people, the German state will remain."]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die zweite Front kommt! DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! SAGTEN WIR EUCH... 1943 May 2494 Scope and Content Note 14x20cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: The Second Front is coming!... Didn't we tell you... So it happened...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 4 1943 April 2495 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No.4 May 1943. POWs in the Soviet-Union are not convicts but state prisoners and are treated accordingly...]. Five photographs: POWs are at work.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 223 1943 May 2496 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 223... The blows against Germany from the East and the West have been united... America is producing 100 000 airplanes per year...]. Caricature: The Allies are crushing Mussolini and Hitler.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auf jeden Dezember folgt wieder... 1943 May 2501 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Every December is followed by the month of May... With the help of this song they consoled you last winter, and what happened in May?... Make contact with comrades who have also enough of this war...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die zweite Front kommt! DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! SAGTEN WIR EUCH... 1943 May 2504 Scope and Content Note 13x19cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The Second Front is coming!... Didn't we tell you... So it happened...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 226 1943 May 2505 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 226... losses of the German air force at the Eastern front...]. Photomontage: [Germany is becoming a war zone. Today in the air. Tomorrow on the land]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 224 1943 May 2514 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 224... The Allies will land in Europe very soon... The Nazis are afraid of the coming of the Second Front..]. Caricature: Hitler is being crushed by the Allies [The Second Front is coming]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Soldaten fallen... 1943 May 2516 Scope and Content Note 21x19cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Soldiers die; Generals surrender... What the generals can do, you can do also, soldier!...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 118 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 227 1943 May 2517 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 227... We will never live through the third Russian winter... Massive air attack on Duisburg... The end of Hitler's adventure in Africa...]. Caricature: [The commander of German troops in Africa is caught by the Allies. Rommel fled from Africa and is rewarded by Hitler with a special knight's cross.]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Es gibt einen Ausweg für Euch... 1943 May 2518 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [There is a way out for you... You did much harm to the Russian people... Break this devilish spider's web... The soldier who surrenders on his free will takes away from him and his family the responsibility for Hitler's war and the misdeeds of the Hitler bandits...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : So war's gedacht für die zu Hause... 1943 May 2521 Scope and Content Note 21x20 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [This is the way those at home should see it (Stalingrad) ... This is the way it really looked like...]. Note: Soviet propaganda maintained the German Wehrmacht never had even entered Stalingrad. Poem by Erich Weinert on reverse of leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 4 : AFRIKA IST DIE VORSTUFE ZUR ZWEITEN FRONT... 1943 May 2523 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Africa is the stepping stone to the Second Front... Soldiers! Do you know what happened in Africa?... . What does Hitler's defeat in Africa mean? ..]. Map: North Africa.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 225 1943 May 2528 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 225... Germany in a ring of fire... Partisan warfare in Europe...]. Caricature: [1940 - Hitler: where can we land best (in England)? 1943 - Hitler: where will they land?]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wer ist der Starkere? Soldaten! Ein ehernes Gesetz des Krieges lautet… 1943 May 2529 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Who is the strongest?... The Russian winter offensive has shown, the Germans have become weaker but the Russians have grown stronger...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was hat Churchill gesagt? Soldaten! Mitte Mai fand in Washington eine... 1943 May 2531 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [What did Churchill say?... We have met here to start preparations to fight our common enemy in Europe without losing one day...]. The leaflet is reporting on a meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill in Washington.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Der Führer sagte...Eure Offiziere haben Euch befohlen, auf alle Flugblätter das Wort 2533 FEINDPROPAGANDA zu schreiben... 1943 May Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The Führer said... Your officers ordered you to inscribe all leaflets with the word ENEMY PROPAGANDA. As you can see we did that for you already. This leaflet contains Hitler's words. Evidently every word is a blatant lie. Enemy propaganda is: he who lies to his own people is an enemy...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 119 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die zweite Front kommt!... 1943 June 2537 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The Second Front is coming! /...Didn't we tell you, Hitler would not win his Blitzkrieg in Russia?...]. Caricature: Hitler is being crushed by the fists of the Allies.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Toten an die Lebenden... 1943 June 2538 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [The dead to the living. "Comrades! Wherever you are... we step in front of you, we, the shadow of Stalingrad!...]. No safe conduct! Photomontage, see leaflet code 2485, different text.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 5 1943 June 2547 Scope and Content Note 18x23 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No.5 June 1943. German generals captured in Stalingrad are enjoying their good health... German soldier! Your generals and officers who demand your death in battle are the first to break with Hitler and surrender. What your generals do, you can do also!] Eight photographs of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wohin? Mit Hitler Ohne Hitler Was bringt der Sommer 1943? Das fragst... 1943 June 2549 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Where to? With Hitler Without Hitler. What will the summer 1943 bring? Don't you ask yourself the same question?... It depends on you!... Hitler's downfall, Germany's liberation, your rescue! Again: all this depends on you and your decision!]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 4 : 10 FRAGEN UND ANTWORTEN... 1943 June 2550 Scope and Content Note 14x18 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [10 questions and answers. Why do we drop bombs and leaflets at the same time? Bombs - as an answer to Hitler's assault on our homes and to destroy his war machine. Leaflets - to tell you the truth about the war... Do the Russians intend to destroy the German people and the German state?... What shall German soldiers do now? Take action. Get up to fight against the war...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 6 1943 June 2551 Scope and Content Note 18x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No.6 June 1943. German soldiers! These German generals and officers lied to their soldiers, they told them they would be killed in Russian captivity. They themselves did not believe such lies. Taking the first chance they capitulated and became Russian prisoners. Have a look how they live in their officer's camps...]. Six photographs of officer POWs.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 228 1943 June 2557 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 228 ... Decisive blows of the Soviet, English and American air force ...]. Drawing: [Increasing English and American "deliveries" to Germany.]. Goebbels, shown as usual as an ape, covered his head with a kitchen pot. He and an SS-general are taking cover in an air raid shelter.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 120 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 226 1943 June 2558 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 226. All hopes of the German High Command for a victory has been smashed… The hope to win the U-boat war is lost...]. Caricature: [Hitler: where will the Allies land?]. Goebbels, shown as usual as an ape, is watching sitting on a lamp.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 202 1943 June 2559 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 202... The German armament industry is being destroyed by aerial bombardment... Total mobilization led to a decline of productivity...]. Caricature: Goebbels is hiding behind Hitler.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Zwei Jahre Ostfeldzug DEUTSCHE... 1943 June 2560 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Two years of campaign in the East. German soldiers! What brought two years of war in the East for you? One word says it: "STALINGRAD" is a symbol... Denounce Hitler your obedience...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : WER IST SCHULD an Stalingrad... 1943 June 2562 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Who is the guilty one for Stalingrad... You!... Not you!... Adolf, the defeated! Hitler is leading you to total destruction...]. On a "green table" Hitler is debating with himself who is the guilty one.
Box/Item No.: 4 : "Wo stehen wir?" So fragt Ihr Euch besorgt... 1943 June 2563 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Where are we? This is what you are asking yourself after two years fighting in the East?... Get out of foreign countries!... Spread the slogan: "We want to go home!"... Prove by your action you are against Hitler! If you want to save your life go into captivity...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : WAS BRINGT EUCH DAS DRITTE KRIEGSJAHR IN RUSSLAND?... 1943 June 2566 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 6.1943 - description: [What will bring you the third year of war in Russia?... Somber thoughts occupy you... Hitler is not Germany...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 7 1943 June 2568 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No.7 June 1943. German soldiers and officers! Look at these pictures and convince yourself that the horror stories put out by the German command are nothing but mean lies...]. Eight photographs about the life of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 203 1943 June 2569 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 203 ... German towns terribly destroyed by air raids... We cannot longer tolerate the situation today...]. Two photomontages: [The ones can go for a walk... The others are forced to produce shells]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 121 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : WARUM KOMMEN KEINE KRIEGSGEFANGENENBRIEFE AUS... 1943 June 2576 Scope and Content Note 22x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Why no letters of POWs arrive from Russia? Hitler! He is guilty of this unjust sacrifice!...]. Note: Neither Germany nor the Soviet-Union delivered letters of POWs. The leaflet is reporting how Russian propaganda leaflets used POW-letters, see photomontage above, showing leaflets with lists of POWs: [Sergeant Kleinfeld sent one of our leaflets to the address of POWs from the town of Rostock. The answer of the letter he received is reprinted on the photomontage reproduced above: "Dear Werner! I have done some research on the POWs from Rostock mentioned on the leaflet you sent me... One POW I could not locate, his house was burnt down and nobody knew where his wife is... The house of the other POW was also destroyed but his parents were most pleased to hear from their son. They recognized his handwriting... The parents thanked me again and again and told me to thank you for sending the leaflet."]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Deutschland hört mit! 1943 June 2577 Scope and Content Note 12x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Germany is listening! Mrs. Schön, the wife of a German pilot received the message he did not return from a flight to Stalingrad. Sad and mourning she ordered a mass to be said in church for her dead husband on Monday next at 10 o'clock… Listening to her radio she suddenly heard the name of her husband. He was mentioned on Radio Moscow which was reporting about German POWs in Russian captivity... On Monday she went to church as if nothing had happened but nobody turned up for the service for her husband. The priest came up to her and said: "I think we should not have this mass, I have heard it too..!" All over, Germany is now listening to Radio Moscow...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 8 1943 June 2579 Scope and Content Note 22x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No.8 June 1943. German soldiers! Those who surrender on their free will receive preferential treatment...]. Three photographs: life of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 227 1943 June 2580 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 227... Sinister perspectives of the Axis nations... North Africa is a jumping board to Europe...]. Caricature: Mussolini's fate is tied to Italy.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Siegen wird, wer stärker ist!... 1943 June 2581 Scope and Content Note 16x26 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Victorious will be the one who is stronger... The power of the Allies is insurmountable, but the power of Germany will decline...]. Photomontage: [The armament industry of the Anti-Hitler-Coalition is producing each hour...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : ZWEI JAHRE VATERLÄNDISCHER KRIEG... 1943 June 2583 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Two years of Patriarchal War of the Soviet-Union...].
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 9 1943 June 2586 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - paper: green, red - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No.9]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 122 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 229 1943 June 2587 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 229... German soldiers and non-commissioned officers!...]. Photograph: [German deserters... Work under instruction of a Russian in a vegetable garden.]
Box/Item No.: 4 : FÜR RADIOSTATIONEN UND LAUTSPRECHERANLAGEN... 1943 June 2590 Scope and Content Note 10x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [For radio stations and loudspeaker installations... What did you get for two years of war in the East?... Stalingrad!... There is a way out! Stalingrad and Tunis have shown it...]. Note: This is not a leaflet! The text was used for vocal communication.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 10 1943 June 2592 Scope and Content Note 22x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper. German POWs in Soviet Russia No. 10.]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 204 1943 June 2594 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 204... German soldiers! Read, what total mobilization does to your families... Children of soldiers are being treated badly... Inhuman working conditions...]. Photograph: [Woman mourning, her child has died]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 230 1943 June 2596 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 230... What is the price of Germany's war in the East?...]. Drawing: [Every day Hitler's armed forces are losing at the Eastern front. Soldiers and officers...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : SOWJETGESETZE ÜBER... 1943 June 2598 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Soviet laws about POWs... In the face of future battles in summer each of you is thinking: What is in store for me - death?... Your officers have told you POWs are at the mercy of the Russians. All are lies and deceit...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Hitler ist bankrott... 1943 June 2603 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is bankrupt... Do not believe Hitler... A defaulter at the head of a state means: ruin of the people, ruin of the nation, ruin of the state...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Glaubt Ihr dem Führer?... 1943 June 2606 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 4 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Do you believe the Führer?... Hitler said… Take your courage and come over to the Russian side…]. Collage of German newspapers.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 123 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 4 : Auslands-Nachrichten Nr. 229 1943 July 2607 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from Foreign Countries No. 229... The European hinterland is getting more dangerous for Germany... The block of Axis power is disintegrating...]. Hitler caricature: The Allies are chipping away at the tree of the Axis powers.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 205 1943 July 2608 Scope and Content Note 17x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 205 ... Heavy blows against the coal industry in the Ruhr area. .. Destruction of Möhne dam... Sabotage of foreign workers in German factories...]. Photomontage: British airplanes attack German cities.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Eine neue Gemeinheit Hitlers… 1943 July 2613 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [A new nastiness of Hitler. To all officers and soldiers of the German Wehrmacht! Comrades! Our division laid down our arms in the pocket of Stalingrad... Hitler's new nastiness is to declare we all had died in Stalingrad… He needs this lie of our death for his propaganda... Do a good turn and tell our relatives we are alive... He who goes with Hitler will perish at the front. He who breaks with Hitler and comes to the Russians will be far from the front in complete safety...]. Names and addresses of former members of the 44th Infantry Division are given, officers are mentioned on top of the list.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Gebt Euch freiwillig gefangen! Deutsche Soldaten! In letzter Zeit geben sich... 1943 2618 July Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Go to captivity on your free will!... In recent times more and more German soldiers went into captivity of the Red Army...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was geht in Deutschland vor? Nr. 206 1943 July 2620 Scope and Content Note 16x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 7.1943 - description: [What is happening in Germany? No. 206... German soldiers! Read, what the SS-men do in the German hinterland... The SS is in the hinterland, soldiers die at the front ... Himmler is favoring sexual excesses... SS is plundering the property of bombed out families... SS is making fun of soldier's wives...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die deutsche Offensive in Raum von Kursk und die Gauner aus dem... 1943 July 2621 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The German offensive in the Kursk area and the swindler from Hitler's headquarters... The offensive of the Germans which started in July 5th has had no success so far...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 11 1943 July 2622 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Illustrated Paper German POWs in Soviet Russia No. 11... This is the way they looked when they surrendered at Stalingrad. This is the way they look now in Russian captivity...]. Six photographs: German POWs on their way from capitulation to the safety of their camp and their activity to influence their comrades still fighting for Hitler.
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Box/Item No.: 4 : DAS NEUE ABENTEUER HITLERS ZUM SCHEITERN VERURTEILT... 1943 July 2625 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's new adventure will fail... On July 5th Hitler started his new offensive near Kursk with 15 tanks, one mechanized, and 14 infantry divisions... losses are unbelievable and the result is zero...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : ACHTUNG! Ein neuer Betrug! DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Tag für Tag… 1943 July 2626 Scope and Content Note 10x13 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Attention! A new fraud!... Day for day they tried to tell you in the last months: "Time is working for us!" That was a lie and a fraud!...]. Note: On July 5th Hitler started his new offensive near Kursk.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Illustriertes Blatt Nr. 12 1943 July 2629 Scope and Content Note 16x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of [Illustrated Paper No. 12. German POWs in Soviet Russia.] Six Photographs: Note: POWs eating on tables covered with white linen and being served by a young Russian girl.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Erklärung eines deutschen Oberleutnants, der auf die Seite der Sowjettruppen 1943 2637 July Scope and Content Note 20x27 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: First Lieutenant Hans Frankenfeld gives a curriculum vitae and his observations in Russian captivity. Portrait photograph.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Vor Kursk haben die Illusionen der deutschen Soldaten ihr Grab gefunden… 1943 July 2638 Scope and Content Note 11x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [In front of Kursk the illusions of German soldiers have found their grave... The break down of the German summer offensive - is the decisive defeat of the German army...]. Note: On July 5th Hitler started his new offensive near Kursk.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Warum ist die neue Offensive Hiders zusammengebrochen? Am 5. Juli 1943... 1943 2642 July Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Why broke the new offensive Hitler's down?!... Because the time for Hitler's successes is over.]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Zwei Sommeroffensiven Am 5. Juli begann Hitler die General offensive auf... 1943 2644 July Scope and Content Note 20x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Two summer offensives. On 5th July Hitler began his general offensive in Kursk. In 10 days the Germans lost 1,392 airplanes, 2,818 tanks (more than 700 "Tiger"), and about 100,000 soldiers and officers dead. Without the slightest success Hitler was pushed to the defensive... On 12th July began the Russian offensive in the Orel area...]. Two photographs.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Die Geschichte wiederholt sich Juli 1943 - Juli 1918 DEUTSCHE... 1943 July 2645 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [History is repeating itself… July 1943 - July 1918... Exactly 25 years ago, in July 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm tried also to start a last desperate offensive...]
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Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 231 1943 July 2646 Scope and Content Note 17x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 231... The price of the new Hitler adventure... A cemetery of "Tiger" tanks...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Aus ist's mit dem Sommer für die deutsche Armee! Offiziere und Soldaten!... 1943 2648 July Scope and Content Note 11x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The summer for the German army is over... Instead of summer new defeats have arrived. What will come are autumn and winter and the unavoidable catastrophe of the German army...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Achtung! Wichtig für jeden Soldaten an der Ostfront... 1943 July 2649 Scope and Content Note 11x16 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Attention! Important for every soldier at the Eastern front!... To prove, you have lost this war already is self-evident. After Stalingrad and Tunis...].
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wenn deutsche Soldaten und Offiziere sich ergeben... 1943 July 2650 Scope and Content Note 14x10 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: ["If German soldiers and officers capitulate the Red Army makes them prisoners and saves their lives."... Stalin...]. Safe conduct with special conditions promised for those capitulating on their free will. The leaflet is propagating desertion.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Angriff oder Verteidigung? Deutsche Offiziere und... 1943 July 2651 Scope and Content Note 19x18 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Attack or defence?... In Kursk Hitler had tried to attack. Near Orel the Germans were in the defence...]. Two photographs, one photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Frontnachrichten Nr. 232 1943 July 2653 Scope and Content Note 21x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description of leaflet newspaper: [News from the Front No. 232... The Soviet troops are advancing... Where German "Tigers" did not get through Russian tanks did... German soldiers surrender with their lorries... Russian artillery is destroying "Tigers"...] Photomontage: Destroyed German tanks.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Befehl des Obersten Befehlshabers an General der Armee Genossen... 1943 July 2658 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Stalin is promoting some of his generals.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Er ist der Schuldige! Sterben muss er! Sonst gibt es bald kein Deutschland... 1943 2665 July Scope and Content Note 22x15 cm - 2 - blue - preservation: 1. Description: [He is the guilty one! He must die! Otherwise Germany will soon cease to exist... Soldier, your child is calling you... Soldier follow the call of your child: Save yourself for your child, for your family. ..]. Photomontage.
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Box/Item No.: 4 : Österreicher! Soldaten der... 1943 July 2666 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - red - preservation: 1. Description: [Austrians! Soldiers of the 2nd, 8th, 12th tank division and the 262th Infantry Division!... The war is coming closer to Austria... Austrians are in the majority on this sector of the front, an armed majority in Hitler's army... After the war you will return to your home in an Austria which will no longer be subjected by Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Italiens erster Sieg. Mussolini. DEUTSCHER SOLDAT!... 1943 July 2676 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Italy's first victory. Mussolini (his name is crossed out). German soldier! Read again the latest news...]. Caricature.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Befehl des Obersten Befehlshabers der Roten Armee an Generaloberst... 1943 2684 August Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 8.1943 - description: Stalin is promoting some of his generals.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Liquidierung des Order Aufmarschgebietes der Deutschen und Einnahme... 1943 2690 August Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Liquidation of the German attack and occupation of Orel and Belgorod...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1943 August 2696 Scope and Content Note 11x14 cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 1. Description: [Did you read the booklet of the "840"? ..]. NOTE: Under the headline "Surrender voluntarily!" ("Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!") the Soviet Government produced and disseminated series of miniature different illustrated leaflets. The following codes were used: 2696, 2698 to 2704, 2706, 2857 to 2860, 2886 to 2893.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wohin? Mit Hitler Ohne Hitler. WÄHLE! Mit Hitler - das ist der alte Weg... 1943 2711 August Scope and Content Note 15x10cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Where to? With Hitler or without Hitler...]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Warum weinst du, Mutti? Warum ich weine? Mein armes Kind... 1943 August 2712 Scope and Content Note 16x11 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Why do you cry, Mama? ..]. Photomontage, see also leaflet code 2380, poem by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 4 : ERICH WEINERT DENK AN DEIN KIND! Wohl diese Nacht... 1943 August 2713 Scope and Content Note 11x15cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: poem on reverse [Think about your child! It is dreaming of you! Your child is asking for you: Mother, is father not yet here?...]. Photomontage and poem by Erich Weinert.
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Box/Item No.: 4 : Willst nach Hause du gelangen... 1943 August 2714 Scope and Content Note 11x15cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: If you want to come home, Turn to Russian captivity. [Encouragement: Listen, soldier. Remember well! If you want to see again child and wife, don't be discouraged!]. Drawing and poem by Erich Weinert.
Box/Item No.: 4 : LETZTE WARNUNG! Geht zurück... 1943 August 2715 Scope and Content Note 12x15cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Last warning! Retreat, before it is too late!... Remember well, what we tell you: the longer you stay on our land the more will your guilt grow... The soldiers of the Red Army]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Was bedeutet die Evakuierung von Berlin... 1943 August 2716 Scope and Content Note 14x19cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What does the evacuation of Berlin and Hamburg mean?... Do away with Hitler - he is guilty of this war, he has condemned your families to death and the war will be over!]
Box/Item No.: 4 : Wer drückt sich rum in der Etappe... 1943 August 2718 Scope and Content Note 15x11 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Who is hiding in the hinterland.. Who is amusing himself with the fiance of the soldier...SS. The sooner the better! German soldiers! While you risk here your life, at your home your family is breaking apart. The SS and their fellow rogues approach your brides and wives... Don't wait until your luck is broken. Save, what can be saved. Leave the front...] Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 4 : Als er Abschied nahm... Als er wiederkam... 1943 August 2721 Scope and Content Note 11x15cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [When he took leave... When he returned... This song was found in the possession of a German soldier who had died at the Eastern front...]. Photomontage and song.
Box/Item No.: 4 : KRIEGSKALENDER 1943 AUGUST 8. August 1918. DER SCHWARZE TAG der... 1943 2726 August Scope and Content Note 14x17cm 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [War calendar 1943 August 8th... Ludendorff: "August 8, 1918, was the decline of the ability to fight... To fight the war took the character of playing hazard... The war had to be ended..."]. The code 2627 is printed erroneously on this leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Verluste der faschistischen deutschen Truppen an der sowjetisch-deutschen... 1943 2727 August Scope and Content Note 10x15cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Losses of the fascist German troops on the Soviet German front from 5th July to 20th August 1943...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : KRIEGSKALENDER 1943 AUGUST. Vor 185 Jahren, am 25. August... 1943 August 2737 Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [War calendar 1943. August 185 years ago, on 25th August 1758... Frederick the Great: "An army which should try to invade Russia further than Smolensk is doomed."]
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Box/Item No.: 5 : Nach CHARKOW... 1943 AUGUST 30 MONTAG Operationsbericht vom... 1943 August 2739 Scope and Content Note 14x18cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [After Kharkov. 1943 August. Report on operations of the Red Army on 30th August...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : KEINE ILLUSIONEN... DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! Nach Stalingrad... 1943 September 2740 Scope and Content Note 14x17cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [No illusions... After Stalingrad they tried to console you... It was evident the Germans can no longer attack in summer... They are not even able to defend themselves...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Das "siegreiche" Viergespann am Scheidewege. Deutsche Offiziere und... 1943 2742 September Scope and Content Note 15x11 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - paper: yellow - description: [The "victorious" four-horse carriage at the decision... German officers and soldiers! This is the way the Hitler block is presenting itself. Only a blind man does not see that Hitler's case is lost... Put down your weapons! Go into captivity voluntarily...]. Drawing similar to leaflet code 3196, only one "horse" i.e. Hungary, has remained.
Box/Item No.: 5 : "Der Sturz Mussolinis ist eine innere Angelegenheit Italiens"... 1943 September 2743 Scope and Content Note 11x16cm - 2 - yellow - preservation: 1. Description: ["The toppling of Mussolini is an internal affair of Italy" or: Mussolini's today is Hitler's tomorrow. German officers and soldiers! After the Italian people had ousted Mussolini Hitler's propaganda did not have much to say... Put down your arms! Go to captivity voluntarily...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : "Ruhe und Ordnung herrschen in Deutschland"... 1943 September 2744 Scope and Content Note 11x15cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: ["Quiet and order rule in Germany" or HIMMLER is appointed interior minister. Hitler has sent you to Russia to perish. Your families have been turned over to Himmler the henchman...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Hinter der Kulisse... 1943 September 2745 Scope and Content Note 12x15cm - 2 - yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [Behind the scene...]. The leaflet is reporting on a diplomatic note of the Allies to neutral countries warning them not to grant asylum to Nazi politicians. [German officers and soldiers! Hitler is completely bankrupt. Now he and his helpers are looking for a hideout in neutral countries...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : KRIEGSKALENDER 1943 SEPTEMBER 1943. Vor vier Jahren, am... 1943 September 2747 Scope and Content Note 14x17cm - 2 - preservation: 1
Box/Item No.: 5 : Aus dem Befehl des Obersten Befehlshabers der Roten Armee vom 8... 1943 2751 September Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: A Stalin order and a report of German losses.
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Box/Item No.: 5 : KRIEGSKALENDER 1943 SEPTEMBER 5-7 September 1812... 1943 September 2752 Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [War calendar 1943 September. 5th to 7th September 1812. Battle at Borodino, victory of the Russians and destruction of Napoleon's army... Napoleon: "It is possible to invade Russia but you cannot get out of it."]
Box/Item No.: 5 : DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! LASST EUCH RATEN: RUFT DEN RUSSEN... 1943 October 2774 Scope and Content Note 23x16 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [German soldiers! Take our advice: Call out to the Russians: "SDAIUS, TOVARISCHI, NE STRELAITE".]. Photomontage, see leaflet code 1850. Reverse: [Have a look at the map!...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Vom 19. bis zum 30. Oktober 1943 tagte DEKLARATION über die Verantwortlichkelt... 2793 1943 October Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [From 19th to 30th October 1943 a conference took place in Moscow... Declaration about the responsibility of the Hitler-Fascists for committed bestialities... Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.]
Box/Item No.: 5 : ERGEBNISSE des Sommerfeldzugs der... 1943 November 2794 Scope and Content Note 14x20cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Results of the summer campaign of the Red Army... losses of the enemy during the summer campaign more than 2,700,000 dead, wounded and POWs...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Vom 19. bis zum 30. Oktober 1943 ... DEKLARATION über Italien... 1943 November 2795 Scope and Content Note 14x20cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [From 19th to 30th October 1943 a conference took place in Moscow... Declaration about Italy...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Englisch-sowjetisch-amerikanisches Kommunique über die Konferenz... 1943 2796 November Scope and Content Note 14x20cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [English-Soviet-American communique on the conference of the three ministers in Moscow. From 19th to 30th October 1943 a conference took place in Moscow... The Ministers declare the independence of Austria.]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Vom 19. bis zum 30. Oktober 1943... DEKLARATION über die Verantwortlichkeit... 2804 1943 November Scope and Content Note 16x23 cm - 2 - paper: blue, red - preservation: 1. See part description: [From 19th to 30th October 1943 a conference took place in Moscow... Declaration about the responsibility of the Hitler-Fascists... Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.]
Box/Item No.: 5 : VIER GEBOTE, um der Vergeltung zu entgehen... 1943 November 2809 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Four commandments to avoid retaliation... We want to send you this warning: Everybody, taking part in crimes committed by Hitler-Fascists will be dealt with severely... He who wants to avoid retaliation should heed the following four commandments: 1. Do not commit murder! 2...]. Illustration of four commandments.
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Box/Item No.: 5 : Und wo steht Euer nächster "Ostwall"?... 1943 November 2815 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [And where is your next "East Wall"? ..]. Hitler is promising since 1942 a wall in the East but German troops have been retreating ever since. Hitler caricature: "East Wall."
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN SPRICHT Die Hitlerarmee ist nicht mehr... 1943 November 2820 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1 - 11.1943 - description: [Stalin is speaking. Hitler's army is not what it was...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN SPRICHT Hitlerdeutschland vor der... 1943 November 2821 Scope and Content Note 17x20 cm - 2 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin is speaking. Hitler Germany is facing a catastrophe...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN SPRICHT Festigung der Antihitlerkoalition... 1943 November 2823 Scope and Content Note 14x24 cm - 2 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin is speaking. Consolidation of the anti-Hitler coalition. Disintegration of the fascist block...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Russen über den Dnjeper!... 1943 November 2827 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [The Russians are crossing the Dnieper river...]. Map: Russian gains until November 1943.
Box/Item No.: 5 : "Zu Befehl!"... 1943 November 2828 Scope and Content Note 19x21cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 1. Description: ["Yes. Sir!"... Blind obedience is the duty of a soldier...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Worauf rechnet Ihr noch? Soldaten!... 1943 December 2833 Scope and Content Note 16x22cm - 2 - blue - preservation: 1. Description: [What are you counting on? .. Are you counting on a compromise peace? .. Are you counting on wonder weapons... Even on your retreat a Russian bullet is waiting for each of you...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Konferenz der Leiter in Teheran...DEKLARATION DER DREI MÄCHTE... 1943 December 2835 Scope and Content Note 18x23cm - 2 - blue, red - preservation: 1. Description: [Conference of the leaders of the three united powers... Declaration of the three powers... Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill]. Flags of the three powers.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Vom 19. bis zum 30. Oktober 1943... DEKLARATION über die Verantwortlichkeit… 2842 1943 December Scope and Content Note 16x23cm - 2 - blue, red - preservation: 1. Description: [From 19th to 30th October 1943 a conference took place in Moscow... Declaration about the responsibility of the Hitler-Fascists... Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.]
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Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1943 December 2857 Scope and Content Note 11x14 cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 1. Description: life of German POWs. NOTE: Under the headline "Surrender voluntarily!" ("Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!") the Soviet Government produced and disseminated series of miniature and different illustrated leaflets. The following codes were used: 2696, 2698 to 2704, 2706, 2857 to 2860, 2886 to 2893.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Erzwungene Eingeständnisse des Generals Dittmar SOLDATEN!... 1944 January 2873 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: a German military commentator is describing the situation at the fronts in his speech on the New year 1944.
Box/Item No.: 5 : DER KRIEG IST ZU HITLERS PRIVATSACHE GEWORDEN... 1944 January 2875 Scope and Content Note 10x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The war turned to be Hitler's private affair. Soldiers, speak up, do you want to perish for that?...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Wer wird zermürbt und wer zermürbt?... 1944 January 2881 Scope and Content Note 14x22 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Who is being worn down and who is doing this?... The end of the war has already been decided...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : "Durchhalten!" WOZU? Deutsche Soldaten... 1944 January 2882 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: ["Hold out!" What for? ... Since Stalingrad you hear the same "Hold out!"...In the end "holding out" led to bloodletting of German troops...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gebt Euch freiwillig gefangen, ehe es zu spät ist! DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN!... 1944 2884 January Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 4 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Go into captivity before it is too late!...]. The leaflet provides a sample identification card promising special treatment for those POWs who surrendered voluntarily, i.e. to desert.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gebt Euch freiwillig gefangen, ehe es zu spät ist! DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN!... 1944 2885 January Scope and Content Note 17x25 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Map of the Russian offensive. The German High Command (OKW) maintains the Wehrmacht shortens the front line by retreating. But the map shows the frontline is 700 km longer than before...]. Note: the red front-line is drawn in the silhouette of several Russian tanks, model T-34.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2886 Scope and Content Note 15x11 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [This is going to be a snowman...]. Three photographs of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2887 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [A Christmas tree is being decorated...]. Two photographs of German POWs.
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Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2888 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [''Winter-battle''] with snowballs. Three photographs of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2889 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: Christmas tree in a camp. Two photographs of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2890 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: Writing letters home. Three photographs of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2891 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [We celebrate Christmas]. Three photographs of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2892 Scope and Content Note 15x11 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: Celebrating Christmas. Two photographs of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gib Dich freiwillig gefangen!... 1944 January 2893 Scope and Content Note 15x11 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Soon the war will be over...]. Three photographs of German POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gebt Euch in geschlossenen Einheiten gefangen! 1944 January 2895 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Surrender in complete units! German soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers! Hitler has lost the war - this is a fact which cannot be changed...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : 5 Vergünstigungen für Offiziere und Soldaten, die sich freiwillig... 1944 January 2897 Scope and Content Note 6x10 cm - paper: yellow - preservation: 1. Description: A ten page foldout illustrates the five advantages which are provided for German deserters. [5 advantages for officers and soldiers who surrender voluntarily... (i.e. desert)]. Five photomontages. Note the markings between the illustrations: "Hier falten!" [fold here]. These instructions are provided to help in hiding the long leaflet from detection by authorities.
Box/Item No.: 5 : 5 Vergünstigungen für Offiziere und Soldaten, die sich freiwillig... 1944 January 2900 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [5 advantages for officers and soldiers who surrender voluntarily (i.e. desert). [Now or never! German soldiers! The hour has arrived... Remember: He who surrenders of his free will is free of responsibility for crimes committed by Hitler's clique...]. Note: this is a remarkable statement! Four photographs.
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Box/Item No.: 5 : Stalingrad - eine Warnung! DEUTSCHE... 1944 January 2904 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalingrad - a warning!... On 2nd February 1943 the battle for Stalingrad ended... 2nd February 1943 is the blackest day in the history of the German Wehrmacht!... The ominous shadow of Stalingrad is cast over the total German Eastern front...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Russen sind nicht nur an Zahl, sondern auch an Material überlegen!... 1944 2909 February Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The Russians are not only superior in numbers but also in material.. German machine guns did not function when the new (Iron) cartridges had been used...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Euer Schicksal ist in Eurer Hand, Soldaten! 1944 February 2913 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Your fate is in your hands, soldiers! The Red Army is attacking... Surrender to the Red Army. Or surrender to the partisans! They will transfer you to units of the Red Army...
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die im Raum von Korsun-Schewtschenkowski eingekesselten deutschen... 1944 2920 February Scope and Content Note 16x24 cm - paper: rose or green - preservation: 1. Description: [German troops in the area of Korsun-Schewtschenkowski destroyed... The German troops in the pocket left 52,000 dead on the battle field, 11,000 men surrendered...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Wahrheit über das neueste Hitlerverbrechen. Deutsche Offiziere und… 1944 2922 February Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The truth about Hitler's latest crime . Hitler turns the complete German army from death candidates to prospective suicides... Hitler is executing all sons of Germany…]
Box/Item No.: 5 : ERGEBNISSE EINES MONATS RUSSISCHER OFFENSIVE AN DER… 1944 February 2924 Scope and Content Note 11x21 cm - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Results of the one month long offensive at the Leningrad and Wolchov front...]. Map: Leningrad - Pskov.
Box/Item No.: 5 : NACH STALINGRAD - KORSUN-SCHEWTSCHENKOSKI! Deutsche… 1944 February 2925 Scope and Content Note 16x25 cm - preservation: 1. Description: [After Stalingrad - Korsun-Schewtschenkowski... What happened there?... Why did 55,000 Germans have to die? Because they believed in Hitler...]. Map: pocket Korsun-Schewschtschenkowski.
Box/Item No.: 5 : BEFEHL des Obersten Befehlshabers der Roten Armee 23. Februar 1944... 1944 2927 February Scope and Content Note 19x25 cm - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin's order No. 16 23rd February, 1944... Death to the German occupants...]. Stalin's order on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the founding of the Red Army.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 134 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Komödie in Hitlers Hauptquartier. Am 3. Februar gab das Oberkommando... 1944 2928 February Scope and Content Note 16x26 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Comedy in Hitler's Headquarters... The Hitler-Fascists try to hide the second Stalingrad...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN WORTE Offiziere und Soldaten der... 1944 March 2939 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin's words...]. Quotes from Stalin's order No. 16.
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN WORTE DEUTSCHE OFFIZIERE UND SOLDATEN! 1944 March 2940 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin's words...]. Quotes from Stalin's order No. 16. The code "2490" was printed erroneously on the leaflet.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Hitler ist bankrott! Soldaten! Hitler wollte Russland, das ein Sechstel des... 1944 2943 March Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is bankrupt! Hitler wanted to conquer Russia, which occupies one sixth of the earth, in six weeks...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN über die Zukunft des deutschen Volkes Deutsche Offiziere... 1944 March 2948 Scope and Content Note 12x19 cm - 2 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin on the future of the German people...]. Quotes from Stalin's order No. 55, 1942.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Heeresgruppe Süd zertrummert! 1944 March 2952 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Army Group South destroyed... The offensive of the Red Army is continuing relentlessly...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gefangen - gerettet! In den zwei... 1944 April 2978 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Captured - saved! In the last two months, February-March 1944 the Red Army destroyed in Southern Russia 361,410 German soldiers and officers which resisted... 75,409 German soldiers and officers who laid down their arms had been taken prisoners...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : LUXEMBURGER! ELSÄSSER... 1944 April 2983 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: green - preservation: 1. Description: [Luxemburger! Alsatians! Lorrains!..]. The leaflet is in the German and French language and addressed to the nations named serving in the German Wehrmacht.
Box/Item No.: 5 : HITLER hat den Krieg verloren Das beweisen die katastrophalen... 1944 May 3010 Scope and Content Note 11x16 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler lost the war. The proof of this are the decisive defeats of the German troops suffered at the Eastern front...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 135 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gefangenschaft ist keine Schande (Handle so wie sie!) DEUTSCHER... 1944 May 3027 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Captivity is no disgrace. Do as they did! ... Many of the leaders of Germany had been POWs in WWI... Dozens of generals, thousands of officers and hundred thousands of ordinary soldiers, your comrades, have capitulated in this war...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Wer braucht die Verhingerung des Krieges? Deutscher Soldat! Jetzt ist es... 1944 3029 May Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Who is in need of prolonging the war?... Now, it is evident for everybody, Hitler has lost the war...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : DIE ZWEITE FRONT! Wann? Deutsche Offiziere und Soldaten!... 1944 May 3030 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The Second Front! When?... The invasion army, millions strong, ready to fight, is on the British Isles...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die englisch-amerikanischen Truppen landeten in Frankreich 1944 May 3038 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [English-American troops landed in France... The German fleet and air force could not prevent the Allied attack.. German troops could nowhere prevent the Allied landings...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : DIE LANDUNG IN EUROPA HAT BEGONNEN. Hitlerdeutschland im... 1944 June 3042 Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The landings in Europe has begun. Hitler's Germany in an iron ring. German sailors!... Refuse to leave ports for you certain death! Damage the machines of your ships and you don't have to go to sea! Avoid the ships of the Allies!...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : 1941/42 NIEDERLAGE HITLERS vor Moskau... 1944 June 3045 Scope and Content Note 22x14 cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 1. Description: [...Defeat Hitler's in front of Moscow. 1942/43. Defeat Hitler's in front of Stalingrad, in the Caucasus, at the Don, in Africa, loss of Sicily, bombardment of Germany... Spoiling Hitler's calculation... Hitler's last hope spoiled - the hope to prolong the war, the hope for a dissent between the allies...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : WIR SAGTEN STETS DIE WAHRHEIT Deutscher Soldat! Am 6. Juni... 1944 June 3046 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [We always told the truth... How can you avoid death? Listen to the voice of truth, soldier, and you will find the answer... You see, soldier, all we have said in the past has come true...].
Box/Item No.: 5 : 12 Ratschläge für die deutschen Soldaten, wie man... 1944 June 3047 Scope and Content Note 10x16 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [12 advices for the German soldier on how to become a POW... You see, soldier, all we have said in the past has come true...]. 12 drawings by Erich Weinert, Heinrich Vogeler? Note: the leaflet contains the advice to murder: [Finish off those who intend to keep you from surrendering i.e. deserting...].
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 136 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN ÜBER DIE ERFOLGREICHE... 1944 June 3051 Scope and Content Note 12x18 cm - 2 - paper: red - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin on the successful landing of the Allies in France... Now you will be beaten from the East, the West and South...].
Box/Item No.: 5 : Fünf brennende Fragen des deutschen Soldaten... 1944 June 3056 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Five important questions of the German soldier. The conclusions of three years of war against Russia... Why has Hitler attacked Russia?...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : DREI JAHRE VATERLÄNDISCHER KRIEG DER SOWJETUNION... 1944 June 3060 Scope and Content Note 20x26 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Three years of the people's war of the Soviet-Union (Military and political results) ...]. Map: territory liberated.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Jagd die Nazibande raus - Und der Krieg ist morgen aus! SOLDAT!... 1944 June 3067 Scope and Content Note 22x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Chase the Nazi-bandits away - And the war is over tomorrow! Soldier! Look at the pictures on the reverse side. Both are Germans. But you are in the trenches at the front and he is sitting at home... You and he - today you are enemies...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 5 : "Neue Waffe" 1944 June 3068 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: ["New weapon" - old propaganda swindle... Again Hitler's propaganda is talking about a "new weapon", the "winged bomb"... in 24 hours only 120 tons of explosives was dropped on London...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Führerbefehl = Tod! Kapitulation = Leben! Deutsche Offiziere und... 1944 June 3069 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's order = Death! Capitulation = Life!... The pocket near Vitebsk capitulated... This reasonable step saved the lives of 10,000 German soldiers. A soldier who capitulates in a hopeless situation is not committing a crime but an act of reason... He who believes further in Hitler and his orders is destined to perish...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Deutsche! Hört die Wahrheit! Am 30. Juni 1944 veröffentlichte das... 1944 July 3070 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Germans! Listen to the truth! On the 30th June 1944... In seven days of the offensive the German Wehrmacht in Vitebsk and Mohilev have destroyed... In the West the Allies are clearing the Normandy area and occupied Cherbourg...]. Map: Vitebsk - Warsaw.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Warum hat Hitler Urlaubssperre verhängt? Weil Hitler jetzt gezwungen ist... 1944 3072 July Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Why has Hitler ordered a ban on leave? Because Hitler is now forced to fight on three fronts at the same time and is being defeated... Because Hitler is without reserves... Many German officers and soldiers do not want to die for Hitler's lost cause. They take their leave themselves: they surrender in masses...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 137 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Eure einzige Rettung ist die Gefangenschaft... der Heeresgruppe Mitte... 1944 July 3073 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Your only rescue is captivity. German officers and soldiers of army group "Mine"... A catastrophe, never seen before, has reached you... Everything broke down...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Völlige Zerschmetterung der Heeregruppe Mitte... der Heeresgruppe Süd... 1944 July 3074 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Complete destruction of army group "Mitte"... German officers and soldiers of the army group South!...What is good for generals is good for soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Völlige Zerschmetterung der Heeregruppe Mitte... der Heeresgruppe Nord... 1944 3075 July Scope and Content Note 13x17 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Complete destruction of army group "Mitte"... German officers and soldiers of the army group North!...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Deutsche Generale gehen nicht in den Tod... 1944 July 3077 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German generals don't die, they go into captivity... German generals do not want to die: they prefer to save themselves in Russian captivity]. Two photographs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Deutsche Generale gehen nicht in den Tod... 1944 July 3078 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: as above, but two different photographs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Generale weisen Dir den richtigen Weg... 1944 July 3080 Scope and Content Note 13x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [These generals show you the way... The only secure way to safety show you your generals themselves... Captivity is not dishonorable...]. Two photographs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Zögere nicht länger! Nimm Dir ein Beispiel... 1944 July 3081 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Do not hesitate any longer! Take an example from these generals! German soldier! Who knows the hopeless military situation of Germany? The German generals!... What do German generals? There are the ones who sacrifice their soldiers and lead them to death. Others break with Hitler, leave the doomed Hitler's army and go into captivity...]. Photograph: German general Gollwitzer and his chief of staff Schmidt after their surrender to the Russians.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Hitler trägt den Krieg nach Deutschland! DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN! 1944 July 3082 Scope and Content Note 10x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler carries the war to Germany... At the Eastern front the Red Army is less than 200 km away from the East Prussian border...]. Photograph: German general Gollwitzer and his chief of staff Schmidt after their surrender to the Russians.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 138 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : 19 deutsche Generale haben sich den Russen gefangengegeben!... 1944 July 3085 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [19 German generals surrendered to the Russians!... During the first two weeks of the mighty Russian offensive in Belorussia the German army group "Mine" have been smashed...]. List of the 19 German generals in Russian captivity.
Box/Item No.: 5 : 1944 Folgst Du Hitlers Befehlen, gehst Du zugrunde! Gibst Du Dich... 1944 July 3088 Scope and Content Note 20x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [If you follow Hitler's orders you are doomed! If you go into captivity you will return home! The soldier's fate. It depends on you what will happen to you now...]. Photomontage.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Generale weisen Dir den rettenden Weg. Was sagen gefangene... 1944 July 3089 Scope and Content Note 22x15 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The generals show you the way to safety. What German generals are saying in captivity?... What happened now is surpassing everything imaginable, being senseless, criminal presumption and lack of talent...]. Two photographs of German generals.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Generalleutnant Müller hat vernünftig gehandelt Deutsche Offiziere und... 1944 July 3091 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Lieutenant General Muller acted sensibly... Rapid maneuvers enabled the Red Army to encircle strong German units. The Russian command sent an ultimatum which was accepted by Lieutenant General Muller. The German soldiers obeyed the order of their general and laid down their arms. They surrendered and saved their lives...]. Photograph and facsimile.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Auf dem Wege in die Gefangenenlager durchzogen Moskau... 1944 July 3093 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [On their way to POWs camps 57,600 German soldiers and officers crossed Moscow on 17th July 1944... Who is the guilty one?... Hitler and his clique!...]. Two photographs: German soldiers and generals parading through the streets of Moscow.
Box/Item No.: 5 : ERKLÄRUNG des kriegsgefangenen deutschen Generalleutnants... 1944 July 3094 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [Declaration of the German prisoner of Lieutenant General Hoffmeister to the High Command of the Red Army...]. Hoffmeister giving critical observations on the break down of army group "Mitte", erroneous leadership of Hitler and the suspicion of German generals in Hitler's ability to lead. Portrait photograph of Hoffmeister.
Box/Item No.: 5 : 20 deutsche Generale haben sich den Russen gefangengegeben... 1944 July 3097 Scope and Content Note 22x29 cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 1, slight damage on edge, no loss of text. Description: [20 German generals surrendered to the Russians... Generals see and know, the German Wehrmacht is lacking tanks, artillery and munitions... The generals know, under these circumstances resistance is senseless and to no avail...]. Twenty portrait photographs.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 139 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Warum wurde Generaloberst Lindemann abgesetzt? Offiziere und Soldaten... 1944 3109 August Scope and Content Note 13x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Why was Major General Lindemann deposed? Officers and soldiers of the Army Group North!... Because he did not want to obey Hitler's orders... Do not follow Hitler's and his representatives' orders! ...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Folge ihnen und Du bist gerettet! Soldat! Während der Sommeroffensive... 1944 3117 August Scope and Content Note 20x29 cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 1, slight damage on edge, no loss of text. Description: [Follow them and you are safe... You see here the pictures of 26 generals (General Hauffe is wounded and in a hospital) ... 27 German Generals have surrendered to the Russians...]. 26 portrait photographs and German generals in captivity.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Aufruf des Generalfeldmarschalls Paulus. An die kriegsgefangenen... 1944 August 3119 Scope and Content Note 20x13 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Deklaration of Fieldmarshal Paulus to the German officers and soldiers in Russian captivity and to the German people... Germany must dissociate itself from Hitler and give itself a leadership...]. Facsimile of declaration.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Aufruf des Generalfeldmarschalls Paulus. An die kriegsgefangenen... 1944 August 3134 Scope and Content Note 15x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: Text as above but different layout and portrait photograph of Paulus. Facsimile of declaration.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Deutsches Volk in Waffen! Unser Vaterland treibt immer schneller... 1944 August 3136 Scope and Content Note 20x27 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German people in arms! Our fatherland is drifting faster and faster to the precipice...]. Declaration of Fieldmarshal Paulus and generals in Russian captivity to the Germans under arms...]. Facsimile of declaration.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gruesse aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft... 1944 September 3138 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Greetings from Russian captivity... with relatives living in East Prussia... Try to get our lists of POWs! Inform the relatives of POWs!]. These lists of German POWs consist of about 80 names and addresses of relatives of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Gruesse aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft... ihre Angehörigen in Breslau... 1944 3145 September Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Greetings from Russian captivity... with relatives living in the city of Breslau... Try to get our lists of POWs! Inform the relatives of POWs!]. These lists of German POWs consist of about 70 names and addresses of relatives of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Rumänien, Finnland und Bulgarien haben mit Hitler gebrochen... 1944 September 3148 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Rumania, Finland and Bulgaria have broken their ties with Hitler... Germany has lost Italy, Germany has lost France. Now Romania, Finland and Bulgaria have left Germany too...]
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 140 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Der einzige Weg zur Rettung ist der Bruch mit Hitler Deutsche Offiziere... 1944 3152 September Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The only way to safety is to break with Hitler... Hitler's fate is certain... Hitler has led Germany to total isolation... The fear of Hitler is gone... Hitler is frightening you with the "Horror of Bolshevism"]
Box/Item No.: 5 : An die Generale, Offiziere und Mannschaften der 9. Armee. Wir, Generale... 1944 3153 September Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [To the generals, officers and soldiers of the 9th Army. We, generals of the 9th Army want to tell you about our experiences...]. Facsimile of declaration.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Offiziere und Soldaten! Am 22. JULI wandten sich 17 kriegsgefangene... 1944 3159 September Scope and Content Note 19x25 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Officers and soldiers! On 22nd July 17 German generals... On 27th August 33 generals wrote another similar declaration... Here we publish another declaration of 11 other German generals recently taken prisoner. To the German people under arms and at home! We generals...]. Facsimile of declaration. The code "3160" was printed erroneously on the leaflet
Box/Item No.: 5 : Wie sich die Rumänen und die Finnen vor der Katastrophe retteten... 1944 October 3168 Scope and Content Note 9x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [How Rumanians and Finlanders saved themselves from the catastrophe... What proves the ceasefire of Romania and Finland...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : DER BANKROTTE PROPHET "Ich bin so oft Prophet gewesen in..." 1944 October 3169 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The bankrupt prophet "I have been often a prophet in my life" (Hitler) ... Examine Hitler's prophecies of the past... Each of Hitler's word is a lie. This is your "Führer"...], see also leaflet code 3188.
Box/Item No.: 5 : STALIN ÜBER DIE DEUTSCHEN UND ÜBER DEUTSCHLAND... 1944 October 3178 Scope and Content Note 14x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Stalin on the Germans and on Germany... The Nazi-propaganda is trying to frighten you with the stupid fairytale that the Red Army intends to extinguish the German people and the German state. This is a blatant lie...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Der bankrotte Prophet Deutsche!... 1944 October 3186 Scope and Content Note 16x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The bankrupt prophet. We publish here sayings of your "Führer"... You can see each of Hitler's words is a lie...]. 11 photographs of Hitler.
Box/Item No.: 5 : "Euer Gefreiter kann nicht weiter!" 1944 November 3188 Scope and Content Note 13x16 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Your corporal does not know how to continue further!. .. After the Russian blow in East Prussia... Balance of the disaster-Adolf. The Corporal Hitler promoted himself to field marshal. After the battle for Moscow was lost he promoted himself to Supreme Commander... The result: the war is lost…] Drawing.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 141 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Im Führerhaupt- quartier nach... 1944 November 3189 Scope and Content Note 14x17 cm - 2 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [In the Führer's headquarters after 20th July (after the attempt on Hitler's life)... The "ironclad" Führer. Hitler does not trust his generals. He is replacing them, some die suddenly...]. Drawing.
Box/Item No.: 5 : WOHIN NUN?... 1944 November 3190 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - paper: blue - preservation: 1. Description: [Where to now?... Dissociate with the moribund Hitler-clique. Hitler and his accomplices feel their end is near... This is why the Hitler-clique started the "Volkssturm" as a last resort... They want to win time to prepare their flight. German officers and soldiers! Men of the "Volkssturm"... Make an end to the war! This is your last resort...]. Drawing.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Himmlers "Volkssturm" 1944 November 3191 Scope and Content Note 13x16 cm - 2 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [Himmler's "Volkssturm". "Come on out, whatever is crawling and flying…" The mightiest wonder weapon of the German Reich will be employed: the Volkssturm"...]. Drawing, a poem, a parody on Volkssturm, on reverse.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Generalfeldmarschall PAULUS an das deutsche Volk Deutsche! Anfang... 1944 3193 November Scope and Content Note 15x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Fieldmarshal Paulus to the German people. Germans! At the beginning of August.. ']. Portrait photograph of Paulus.
Box/Item No.: 5 : "Wir stehen nun wieder ganz allein an der... Der Karren ist festgefahren." 1944 3196 November Scope and Content Note 17x14 cm - 2 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [''Now, we are completely alone at the front fighting our enemies," Hitler. The cart has broken down...]. Drawing, see similar leaflet code 2742. Here only one "horse" i.e. Hungary, is remaining.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Was sagt Generalfeldmarschall Paulus über den "Volkssturm"? 1944 November 3200 Scope and Content Note 12x17 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What General Fieldmarshal Paulus says about the Volkssturm? Germans! Hitler and his clique know very well they have lost the war. No measures taken can change that...]. Portrait photograph Paulus.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Was sagt Generalfeldmarschall Paulus über die russische Kriegsgefangenschaft? 3201 1944 November Scope and Content Note 11x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What General Fieldmarshal Paulus says about Russian captivity?... Each of you know Hitler has lost the war... Do not believe the Nazi-lies that Russians are treating their POWs inhumanely... POWs are not forced with a whip and a shot in the neck to do propaganda against their fatherland...]. Portrait photograph Paulus, see above.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 142 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Generalfeldmarschall Paulus weist dem deutschen Volke den Weg! 1944 November 3202 Scope and Content Note 11x16 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [General Fieldmarshal Paulus is showing the German people the way!... All of you have this question burning in your hearts: What is the way out of this war Hitler has lost, what is the salvage?... Nazi-propagandists want to frighten you with the terror of defeat... Paulus says:... There is only one way out... Parting from Hitler and ending the war!...]. Portrait photograph of Paulus, see also leaflet code 3200.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Schauermärchen der Hitlerfaschisten über angebliche Greueltaten der 3205 Sowjettruppen... 1944 November Scope and Content Note 9x17 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler Fascists spread alleged horror stories of war crimes committed by Soviet troops... Hitler Fascists intend to incite soldiers and civilians to continue the war... Nobody will believe Hitler's henchmen from Katyn, Babi-Yar and Maidanek...]. The leaflet is reporting on a film project Hitler-Fascists are producing. The title is "Greueltaten der Sowjettruppen in Ostpreussen" [Atrocities of Soviet troops in East Prussia]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Der 27. Jahrestag der Grossen Sozialistischen Oktoberrevolution... 1944 November 3206 Scope and Content Note 20x25 cm - 8 - preservation: 1. Description: Stalin's report on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Russian Revolution... [On the fortification and enlargement of the anti-German coalition. Questions of peace and security...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Öffentliche Erklärung deutscher Generale... 1944 November 3218 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Public declaration of German generals and officers about living conditions of German POWs in Soviet Russia. Because the German government is refusing to accept mail from German POWs in Russia, it is erecting an artificial wall between POWs and their relatives. Everything said in Germany about alleged mistreatment of German POWs is a lie...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Das Jahr ununterbrochener Niederlagen... 1944 November 3219 Scope and Content Note 11x15 cm - 4 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The year of Hitler's unrelenting defeats...]. Quotes of passages of Stalin's report on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Hitlerdeutschland von zwei Fronten umklammert Deutsche Offiziere und Soldaten! 3220 1944 November Scope and Content Note 17x13 cm - 2 - paper: blue, rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler-Germany encircled on two fronts...]. Quotes of passages of Stalin's report on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Hitlers letzte Karte ist geschlagen Deutsche Offiziere und Soldaten! Alle... 1944 3221 November Scope and Content Note 17x13 cm - 2 - paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler played his last card...]. Quotes of passages of Stalin's report on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 143 collection Soviet Central Series 1941-1945
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Hitlerclique hat alle Völker der Welt gegen Deutschland aufgebracht... 1944 3222 November Scope and Content Note 17x12 cm - 2 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler's clique mobilized all nations of this world against Germany…]. Quotes of passages of Stalin's report on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Tage des Hitlerschen Blutregimes sind gezählt. Deutsche Offiziere und Soldaten! 3223 Hitlers... 1944 November Scope and Content Note 14x11 cm - 2 - paper: red, paper: rose - preservation: 1. Description: [The days of Hitler's blood regime are numbered...]. Quotes of passages of Stalin's report on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Worauf hofft Ihr noch? 1944 December 3234 Scope and Content Note 13x18 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [What is it you are hoping for? To incite you to spend your blood uselessly Nazi propaganda is raising false hopes. See the value of these hopes yourself. Volkssturm?... Wonder weapons?... Insurmountable walls?... Quarrels among the Allies?... Remember: Only he can save himself who ceases to believe in Hitler, he who is breaking with Hilter]
Box/Item No.: 5 : DEUTSCHE GENERALE ÜBER DIE RUSSISCHE KRIEGSGEFANGENS 1944 December 3236 Scope and Content Note 13x19 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [German generals on Russian captivity... Draw your own conclusions from what your generals in Russian captivity tell you. Follow their call!...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Grüsse aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft... ihre Angehörigen in Berlin... 1944 3239 December Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Greetings from Russian captivity... for relatives living in the city of Berlin... Try to get our lists of POWs! Inform the relatives of POWs!]. These lists of German POWs consist of about 70 names and addresses of relatives of POWs.
Box/Item No.: 5 : TEHERAN UND SEINE FOLGEN Was wurde in Teheran beschlossen?... 1944 December 3242 Scope and Content Note 19x13 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Teheran and its results. Which decisions had been reached in Teheran?...]. Two maps of Germany.
Box/Item No.: 5 : An Volk und Wehrmacht Moskau, 8. 12. 1944. Deutsche! Aus tiefer Sorge... 1944 3252 December Scope and Content Note 17x25 cm - 4 - preservation: 1. Description: [To the people and Wehrmacht. Moscow, 8.12.1944...]. Declaration of German generals in Russian captivity. Typewritten text. Facsimiles of signatures.
Box/Item No.: 5 : An Volk und Wehrmacht Moskau, 8. 12. 1944. Deutsche! Aus tiefer Sorge... 1944 3253 December Scope and Content Note As above, but 2 pages, different layout and photograph instead of facsimiles.
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Box/Item No.: 5 : Generalsworte, die in Erfüllung gingen Offiziere und Soldaten! Im Juli... 1944 3261 December Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Words of generals that came true...]. The leaflet compares words of German generals from July 1944 with the military situation at the end of 1944.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Soldat! Du willst wissen; Zu welchem Zweck hat Hitler den Krieg... 1945 January 3280 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Soldier! You want to know: 1. For what reason Hitler began the war? 2. Is there a slightest sign of hope Hitler can escape defeat? 3. Why does Hitler continue the lost war? 4. Will Germany perish if it ends the lost war? 5. What is the way out?...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Volkssturmmänner! Viele von Euren Kameraden sind schon nicht mehr am... 1945 3284 January Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - 1.1945 - description: [Men of the Volkssturm! Many of your comrades are already dead. Thousands of German Volkssturm men perish uselessly every day...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : An die Offiziere und Unteroffiziere der deutschen Wehrmacht... 1945 January 3285 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [To the officers and non-commissioned officers of the German Wehrmacht... It would be ridiculous to ignore the enormous superiority of the Red Army and the complete impotence of the German Wehrmacht... Capitulation and imprisonment! There is no other way!...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Rette Dich, ehe es zu spät ist! Soldat! Von der Wolga his zur Oder sind es... 1945 3300 January Scope and Content Note 10x15 cm - 2 - paper: yellow - preservation: 1. Description: [Save yourself before it will be too late! The distance from the river Volga to the river Oder is 2000 kilometers, from the Oder to Berlin 75 ... The Red Army has occupied all fortifications... and crossed the Oder river, she will also occupy the last fortification: Berlin... Don't wait until the Russians, British and Americans have destroyed the last pocket...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Soldat! WEISST DU schon etwas über die Krim-Konferenz? Anfang Februar... 1945 3301 February Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [...What do you know about the Crimea-Conference?... Do you know what was decided at the Crimea-Conference about Germany and the German people?... Soldier, have you thought what your fate will be?...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Aus ist es mit allen Illusionen! Soldat! VOR KURZEM NOCH fütterten... 1945 February 3303 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Not long ago the Nazis told you the illusion about alleged discrepancies among the Allies. Now these illusions have vanished...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Hitler ist Dein Feind! Mach Dich los von ihm! Soldat! Hitler ist Dein Feind... 1945 3304 February Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hitler is your enemy! Free yourself from him!... He has brought the war to the heart of Germany... He has torn you from your family...]
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Box/Item No.: 5 : BLICK AUF DIE KARTE! SIE HAT DIR VIEL ZU SAGEN, SOLDAT!... 1945 February 3305 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Have a look at this map! It will tell you a lot, soldier! One month of the unchecked offensive of the Red Army..]. Map: frontline 12 January to 12 February 1945.
Box/Item No.: 5 : ERKLÄRUNG DER FÜHRER DER DREI VERBÜNDETEN MÄCHTE... 1945 February 3306 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - paper: blue, red - preservation: 1. Description: [Declaration of the three leaders of the United Nations. In the first half of February a conference took place in the Crimea... Cease resistance... Any other way will lead to your extinction.]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Russen im Vorgelände von Berlin. DEUTSCHE OFFIZIERE UND... 1945 February 3310 Scope and Content Note 14x21 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Russians are approaching Berlin. German officers and soldiers! You all should know what the Supreme Commander of the Red Army, Marshal Stalin, said on February 25, 1945... We have made our way to the approaches to Berlin... The complete victory over the Germans is quite near... Lay down your weapons and go together into captivity. This is the only way to your safety!...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Wir haben die Kriegspläne der... 1945 February 3312 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: blue, red - preservation: 2, crinkled, discolored. Description: [''We have agreed on the war plans for the final destruction of the common enemy..."]. Quote from the declaration of the Crimea conference.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Zu unseren Zielen gehört nicht die... 1945 February 3314 Scope and Content Note 10x14 cm - 2 - paper: blue, red - preservation: 1. Description: ["It is not our aim to annihilate the German people. Our irrevocable aim is to annihilate German militarism and Nazism and guarantee that Germany will never again be able to disturb the peace of the World"...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Denk an Deine Familie! Soldat! Jetzt... 1945 March 3318 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Think about your family! Soldier! Now your wife and your child are at risk. Where are they today?... Who is responsible for their suffering? Hitler!...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : DER STAND DER FRONTEN Zur Zeit der Teheraner Konferenz... 1945 March 3319 Scope and Content Note 20x14 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [The situation at the fronts. At the time of the Teheran Conference. At the time of the Crimea Conference]
Box/Item No.: 5 : UNNÜTZE HOFFNUNGEN!... 1945 March 3320 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Hopes are in vain! Unnecessary dread! Soldier! Hitler's war is lost without hope. You see that yourself. Why do you continue your resistance?... Unnecessary dread: the German people will not be annihilated. Only Nazism and the German militarism will be annihilated... Think about it: Time is running out! The Russians are at the doors of Berlin...]
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Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Russen im Vorgelände von Berlin... Stalin über die Ergebnisse des... 1945 March 3324 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Russians in the approaches to Berlin...], see also leaflet 3310, different layout.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Kapitulation der einzige Weg zur Rettung! Soldaten! Wenn ihr noch nicht... 1945 3328 March Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Capitulation, the only way to safety! Soldiers!... Force your officers to capitulate immediately or discuss captivity among fellow soldiers...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Was sagen Eure Generale über die russische Kriegsgefangenschaft?... 1945 March 3329 Scope and Content Note 30x22 cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 2, edge damaged, no loss of text. Description: [What do your generals say about Russian captivity?...] Eight photographs of generals in Russian captivity.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Organisierte Kapitulation Eure Rettung... 1945 March 3333 Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Organized capitulation is your safety...]. Photograph of German POWs after the capitulation of Bunzlau garrison.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Volkssturmmänner! Tausende deutscher Volkssturmmänner, alt und jung, gehen 3334 täglich... 1945 March Scope and Content Note 15x23 cm - 2 - preservation: 1 - paper: rose - description: [Men of the Volkssturm! Thousands of German men of the Volkssturm, old and young, perish every day senselessly... What is the use of all the the Nazis tell you, you are defending Germany. This is a lie! It is too late now to defend Germany... The Nazis tell you, the Allies would annihilate the German people. This is also a lie!... The Nazis tell you, you are defending your future. This is also a lie!... Today it is possible tomorrow it might be too late!...]. Photograph of Volkssturm men in Russian captivity.
Box/Item No.: 5 : Die Wahrheit über die Lage in den von der Roten Armee besetzten... 1945 3339 Scope and Content Note 15x22 cm - 2 - preservation: 2, folded worn. Description: [The truth about the situation in the areas occupied by the Russian Army... The Hitler propaganda started an intensive hate campaign for the dissemination of lies about the conduct of the Russian Army in occupied German areas... What is really happening in German towns and villages occupied by the Red Army?...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : 1945 Weg mit dem Bankrotteur! Deutsche! HITLER IST EUER FEIND!... 1945 3346 Scope and Content Note 15x21 cm - 2 - brown - preservation: 1. Description: [1945 - Away with the defaulter! Germans! Hitler is your enemy... Hitler's days and the days of his Nazi-clique are numbered... Cease all resistance against the Red Army! This will help to better the situation for you and your home country...]
Box/Item No.: 5 : Warnung der Regierungen der Sowjetunion, der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 3356 und Grossbritanniens... 1945 Scope and Content Note 14x20 cm - 2 - preservation: 1. Description: [Warning of the government of the Soviet Union... In the name of all United Nations at war with Germany... to all German commanders, guard personnel and men of the Gestapo... Stalin... Truman... Churchill]
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Miscellaneous leaflets series 1941-1945 Physical Description: 5 Scope and Content Note Contains German propaganda leaflets addressed to Russian soldiers and Soviet leaflets addressed to Finnish, Italian, and Romanian soldiers
Box: 5 German propaganda leaflets for Russian soldiers 1941-1945 Scope and Content Note Five leaflets in Russian
Box: 5 Soviet propaganda leaflets 1941-1945 Box: 5 For Finnish soldiers Scope and Content Note Five leaflets in Finnish
Box: 5 For Italian soldiers Scope and Content Note One leaflet in Italian
Box/Folder: 5 For Luxembourg Scope and Content Note Two leaflets in Russian and French
Box/Folder: 5 For Romanian soldiers Scope and Content Note Two leaflets in Romanian
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