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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z899sd No online items Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner collection Processed by Klaus Kirchner. Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-6010 Phone: (650) 723-3563 Fax: (650) 725-3445 Email: [email protected] © 2012 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved. Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner 2011C59 1 collection Inventory of the Klaus Kirchner collection Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California Processed by: Klaus Kirchner Date Completed: 2011 Encoded by: Machine-readable finding aid derived from Microsoft Word and MARC record by Jill Golden. © 2012 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved. 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..