Germany WW2 Propaganda and Military Art: Germany started the Second World War in Europe on 1939 and it ended likewise in Europe on 1945 for the German capitulation.
The history of Germany during World War II closely parallels that of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. He came to power in Germany in 1933. From that point onward, Germany followed a policy of rearmament and confrontation with other countries. During the war German armies occupied most of Europe; Nazi forces defeated France, took Norway, invaded Yugoslavia and Greece and occupied much of the European portion of the Soviet Union. Germany also forged alliances with Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and later Finland and collaborated with individuals in several other nations. The German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 was considered the decisive victory that turned the tide of the war against Germany and her Anti-Comintern allies. The Second World War culminated in Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the death of Adolf Hitler. (Wikipedia)
Germany WW2 Propaganda Posters:
Recruiting:
Wehrmacht: (Regular Army)
1939 Grenadiers!
1940 Officers of Tomorrow
1940 Mountain Hunter at MG-30
1940 The German Soldier
1940 Now we Alsatians also join the European freedom struggle against plutocracy and Bolochewism
1941 Our Infantry
1942 Panzer Your Weapon!
1942 Non-commissioned officer in the army. Your profession!
1943 From Hitler Youth to Army Officer – Your Path!
1943 Volunteers forward! Enlist to the Grossdeutschland Division
1943 Non-commissioned Officer in the Army. Your role model
1944 Enlist for voluntary military service with the Grenadier Regiment ‘Feldherrnhalle’
1944 The Lieutenant
1944 Infantry Queen of All Weapons
Luftwaffe: (Air Forces)
1941 How to become an officer in the Luftwaffe
1941 Help us win as an Air Signals Auxiliary
1942 Our Luftwaffe
1942 Comrade at the wheel. Report to the N.S.K.K. Motorgruppe-Luftwaffe
1943 Come to us! Hermann Göring division hires volunteers!
Kriegsmarine: (Navy)
1941 Deployment of the German Navy
1943 Volunteer for the Navy
1943 Always the Same Enemy! 1673-1943 Fight With Us!
Waffen SS: (Fighting SS)
1939 Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. 1933
1940 Waffen – SS. Entry after 17 years of age
1941 Waffen SS. Join at the age of 17
1941 German men from Elsatz and Lorraine. General SS, Waffen-SS, and Auxiliary Police
1942 German youth volunteers for the Waffen-SS
1942 The SS is calling you
1942 Men of the Reich labor service volunteer for the Waffen-SS
1942 Men of the Reich Labor Service volunteer for the Waffen-SS
1942 SS Police in Frontline Operations. Day of the German Police
1942 Glory and Honor Alsatian Follow this example Get in touch!
1943 You Too
1944 Join us! SS Volunteers – Panzergrenadier Division ‘Horst Wessel’
Waffen SS Foreign Divisions:
1941 Strike Bolshevism In The Frikorps ‘Denmark’
1941 Against Boshevism! Join the Walloon Legion
1941 Join us in North! Norwegian SS Skihunterbattaliion
1941 Front Against Bolshevism. Where do you stand today?
1941 Under the Folds of the Flag. The L.V.F. French Volunteer Legion. Fight for Europe
1942 Your place is still free In the Waffen SS
1942 Everything will be all right – Fight against Bolshevism in the Waffen-SS
1942 Dutchmen For Your Honor and Conscience On! – Against the Bolshevism. The Waffen SS Calls You!
1942 Flemish people! Register with the Waffen SS or the Flemish Volunteer Legion
1942 Join the Fight! for our people, for our fatherland, for Europe in the Dutch Volunteer Legion
1942 Shoulder to Shoulder Against the Common Enemy! French Division of the Waffen SS
1942 The Waffen-SS Calls You. Protect Your Fatherland
1942 With the Waffen-SS and the Norwegian Legion Against the Common Enemy… Against Bolshevism
1942 The Spirit of Kalevipoeg is Incarnated in the Estonian Legion!
1942 We Fight for the Freedom and Culture of Europe – Fight with the Waffen SS
1943 For Denmark! Against Bolshevism!
1943 United Front Against Bolshevism
1943 Waffen SS Landsturm Netherlands
1943 Pride of the Estonian People – Estonian Legionnaire!
1943 You Too Must Fight For Latvia!
1943 SS Brigade Wallonia. Anti-Bolshevik Crusade
1943 At the SS Storm Brigade Langemarck. Join!
1943 You Defend Belgium… By Fighting On The Eastern Front! Come To The SS-Armored Division ‘Wallonia’
1943 Comrade came along. Defend your home against Bolshevism. Fight with the SS Division ‘Viking’
1943 If you want France to live, you will fight in the Waffen-SS against Communism
1943 Ersatzkommando Der Waffen SS
1944 Narva 1219 A Symbol 1944. Also Today Front Towards the East!
1944 For Honor, For Life Italian SS Legion
1944 Our Honor Is Loyalty
Women in Service:
Volksturm: (People’s Army)
1944 For Freedom and Life. Volkssturm
NS Reichskriegersbund: (War Veterans)
1939 Greater German Reich War Veterans Day Kassel 3.5 June 1939
1939 Join in the N.S. Reichskriegerbund
Hitlerjugend: (Hitler Youth)
1939 Youth serves the Führer
1942 Hitler Youth: Germany’s Future
1942 Summer Combat Games of the Upper Rhine Hitler Youth. Strasbourg
1943 In One Formation
Bund Deutscher Mädel: (League of German Girls)
1939 Youth serves the Führer
1940 You too belong to the Führer
Gear and Vehicles:
1939 Mercedes-Benz
1939 Arado Ar 79 ‘…also for glider towing!’
1939 Böhler stainless steels for aircraft construction
1939 dive bomber Junkers – JU 87
1939 Zoellner paints for the aircraft industry
1939 Reliable in any situation and in any weather. Sum carburettor
1939 Mercedes-Benz aircraft engines
1940 Mercedes-Benz
1941 Mercedes-Benz Flugmotoren
Health and Safety:
1940 6th Els-Lothr. Fire Brigade Day
1942 You can arrange this. You are helping the enemy!
1943 air protection
1944 Light of Death!
1944 Hands off! Every unexploded bomb is a threat to life!
Anti-Enemy and Racism:
1939 Polish soldier in captivity
1940 I helped the Norwegians… the Dutch and Belgians too… but I especially helped the French! Who will help me now?
1940 The Eternal Jew
1940 The Eternal Jew
1940 Sweet Jew
1941 If you see this sign… Jew
1941 Behind the enemy powers. the Jew
1942 The Subhuman
1942 The cat won’t stop chasing mice!
1943 He is to blame for the war!
Axis Powers (German Allies):
1939 The Pact of Steel. The Duce. The Führer. v.Ribbentrop. Grae Ciano. Military Pact Germany-Italy
1939 Roma-Berlin. Italia – Deutschland
1941 Postcard made to celebrate the ‘Tripartite Pact’ between Italy, Germany and Japan
1944 With Joint Forces Against Bolshevism. For the Survival of Europe and Hungary!
1944 June 22. On this day, Europe initiated a defensive fight, with Hungary actively involved
1944 One heart, one will. Forward to victory!
1944 The Italians are realists
Fighting and Morale:
1939 Only One Can Win And That Is Us
1939 campaign against Poland
1939 With Hitler in Poland
1939 War Christmas
1940 air victory over Poland
1940 With Hitler in the West
1940 baptism of fire
1940 Always on the enemy. German Air Force against England
1940 The final battle! Air power Germany against sea power England
1940 … because we are going against England
1940 Storm Victory in the West. The Campaign of the Three Capitulations
1940 We from the Western Front
1940 Greetings from Norway
1941 Armed Alpine Homeland
1941 Germany’s European Mission
1941 Germany’s Victory. Europe’s Freedom
1941 Attack on England’s Flanders. The German Air Force in Norway
1941 German Will. From the War Diary of the National Group Greece
1941 Why war with Stalin?
1943 Total war leads to total victory!
1943 Now, people, arise and let the storm break loose!
1943 Greater Germany arose – I did not suffer in vain
1943 1918 vs 1943
1943 All forces are focused! Total war – shortest war!
1943 Hands off! Europe
1943 It’s not you who counts! It’s the front!
1943 Victory or Boschewism
1943 We Will Win If Adolf Hitler Leads Us
1945 A German girl! ‘Germany will endure all suffering and create a new world’
Allied fliers targeting Germans:
1943 6A Paulosa, Soviet leaflet on the encirclement of the 6th Army at Stalingrad
1943 This was the first stroke…
1944 Hand-drawn caricature as a draft for a leaflet illustration of the National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD)
German fliers targeting Allies:
1940 Where Did Tommy Go?
1944 It’s A Long Way To Rome
Production:
1939 Equal Blood. Equal Duty. Equal Honor
1940 You Are Front
1940 The Chicken in the Production Battle
1940 We Working Maidens
1941 The Deployment of German Women in the War
1942 You too can help!
1944 Your work ensures victory!
Finance:
1939 Working people collect, working people give! Collection days of the German Labor Front
1939-44 WHW slogan. During the war, ‘Give double!’
1940 2.War Winter Relief Fund 1940-41. The front soldier looks at your sacrifice
1941 2. War Relief Organization for the German Red Cross. Ready for New Sacrifice
1941 German Police Day 1941 WHW. SS Man. Your Honor Is Loyalty!
1941 German Police Day 1941 WHW. The Police. Your Friend, Your Helper
1941 German Police Day 1941 WHW. The Police. Your Friend, Your Helper
1941 Use War WHW Stamps
1941 2. War Relief Organization for the German Red Cross. Your Thanks – Your Sacrifice
1941 The Frontsolfat looks at your sacrifice!
1941 WHW 1941. SS Day of the German Police. Order Police and Security Police in Wartime Operations
1941 Give to the 2nd War Relief Organization for the German Red Cross
1941 Donations to the German Red Cross War Relief Organization
1941 Donated to the 2nd War Relief Fund for the German Red Cross
1941 The Four-Year Plan
1942 And your sacrifice for the WHW?
Careless Talk:
1939 Beware of spies. Be careful when talking!
1939 Shut Up!
1940 Hans writes his division is coming… shhh! The enemy is listening!
1940 German Be Proud and Be Silent!
1940 I believe all the rumors!
1943 Shame on you, you chatterbox! The enemy is listening – silence is a must!
1943 pst!
1943 pst!
1943 pst! Enemy is listening
1944 pst The enemy is listening!
Home Front:
1939 First win – then travel! Remember. Wheels must roll for victory!
1940 I also help the Führer. Metal donation from the German people on April 20, 1940
1940 The enemy sees your light! Darken it!
1940 Workmate at the control panel! Saving electricity and coal here
1940 Eternal Infantry Exhibition
1940 Politeness is better and faster!
1940 Art of the Front Exhibition by members of Luftgau VII in Strasbourg
1941 … There we want to see each other again, we want to stand in front of the lamppost – like Lili-Marleen once did…
1942 Give You too. Old clothes and textile collection 1942
1942 Hamster, be ashamed of yourself
1942 Exhibition. German Greatness
1942 Educational exhibition ‘The Beautiful City’ Exhibition in the Old Castle
1942 Art for the People
War Time Advertising:
1939 Astra. Light and aromatic smoking more pleasure for you
1939 Hensoldt – Dialyt prisms – field engraving. Extra light
1939 Leica … all over the world
1939 With mouthpiece and yet without. Güldenring
1939 Tobacco Cultivator
1939 Snapped – yes… But where can we quickly get the film developed and the prints made
1939 MM Extra. Small Palm Reading
Magazine Covers:
Der Schulungsbrief:
Nazi Party’s monthly magazine for political education
1942 Der Schulungsbrief. The Reich and Europe Win
1942 Der Schulungsbrief. Struggle and Work – Brothers of Victory
1942 Der Schulungsbrief. Life Requires Struggle
1942 Der Schulungsbrief. With Plow and Sword to Victory
1942 Der Schulungsbrief. Victory of Racial Power
1943 Der Schulungsbrief. Work Leads Us to Victory
Die Wehrmacht:
Official Military Magazine of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
1941 The Wehrmacht. Number 20 Berlin, September 24, 1941. Me – or you!
Signal:
Illustrated Propaganda Magazine of Wehrmacht
1941 Signal 2 Issue October 1941. One of the men
1944 Signal Number 8. In the Balkan Gorges
Der Adler:
Official Propaganda Magazine of the Luftwaffe
1939 Det Adler. Issue 13 Berlin, 5 September 1939. Special issue 20 years of German gliding
1939 Der Adler Issue 19, Berlin. October 31, 1939. Airmen defeat the enemy
1939 Der Adler Issue 20, Berlin. November 14, 1939. Flag victory in 7 seconds
1939 Der Adler Issue 21 Berlin 28 November 1939. ‘Wellington’ on the run
1939 Der Adler Issue 22 Berlin December 12, 1939. France’s deployment unveiled!
1939 Der Adler Issue 23 Berlin 21 December 1939. England Vulnerable From The Air
1940 Der Adler Issue 1 Berlin 9 January 1940. Who called Tommy
1940 Der Adler Issue 12 Berlin 11 June 1940. Collapse in Flanders
1940 Der Adler Issue 21 Berlin October 15, 1940. Major Werner Mölders
1941 Der Adler Issue 10 Berlin May 20, 1941. Collapse in Greece
1941 Der Adler Issue 23 Berlin November 18, 1941. French edition. On the chain
1942 Der Adler Issue 11 Berlin 26 May 1942. The first asymmetrical aircraft
1942 Der Adler Issue 10 Berlin May 19, 1942. French edition. The fastest fighter plane in the world
Die Kriegsmarine:
Official Navy Magazine of the Kriegsmarine
1942 The Kriegsmarine. Issue 4. German submarines off New York!
Illustrierter Beobachter:
Illustrated Propaganda Magazine of the Nazi Party
1940 Illustrated Observer. France’s Guilt
1942 Illustrier Beobacter. Thursday 11 June 1942. The enemy is defeated everywhere
Die Woche:
Illustrated Weekly Newspaper
1940 Die Woche. 9 October 1940 Issue 41. Mussolini accompanied by the German ambassador in Rome, von Mackensen
Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung:
Illustrated Weekly Newspaper
1942 Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung Number 28 July 16, 1942. Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. Laughing victors of Sevastopol
1944 Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. At Monte Cassino. Change of position
1944 Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. V1 – Course London
NS Frauen-Warte:
Official National Socialistic Women’s Magazine
Der Pimpf:
Nazi Magazine for Boys
Germany WW2 Military Art:
Soldiers of the 3rd Reich:
1939 Günther Prien
1940 Paratrooper Major Koch
Art from the Eastern Front by the French/German artist Guy Mouminoux (Zayer):
1942-45 After the battle by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 From the tank firing at aircraft by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 German tanks in the midst of flowering fields of Ukraine by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 Gunners by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 Infantry and tanks by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 Reconnaissance by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 Retreat from Memel in Krantz by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 Self-propelled gun firing at the enemy by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 Tank and infantry in the midst of a snowy field by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
1942-45 Workaround by Guy Mouminoux (Sajer)
Frauen schaffen für euch 1943
Women works for you:
1943 655 The NSV Kindergarten Teacher by Eva Hahmeyer
1943 656 The NSV Helper in the Station Service by Eva Hahmeyer
1943 653 The Train Conductor by Becker
1943 654 The Postwoman by Becker
1943 663 The Postal Worker by Becker
1943 664 The Laboratory Assistant by Becker
1943 665 At the harvest by Becker
1943 666 In the machine factory by Becker
1943 667 The DRK sister by Becker
1943 668 Drivers by Becker
1943 649 The Tram Conductor by Gagelmann
1943 650 The Stenographer by Gagelmann
1943 651 The Supervisor by Gagelmann
1943 652 In the aircraft construction by Gagelmann
1943 657 The technical draftswoman by Gagelmann
1943 658 The Doctor by Gagelmann
1943 659 Uniform tailoring by Gagelmann
1943 660 The DRK helper in the station service by Gagelmann
1943 661 In the ammunition factory by Gagelmann
1943 662 The Telephone Operator by Gagelmann
Various Art from various sources:
Western Front:
1939 The French Fighter plane hit the ground with tremendous force
Eastern Front:
1939 In a fraction of a second, the Stukas beginning a steep dive
1939 Stuka attacks a bunker in Poland
1939 The ten-ton bomb is driven on a special trolley under the fuselage of the dive bomber
African Front:
1941 Messerschmidt ME 110 over the Libyan desert
1943 Shot down – El Alamein
Some interesting 1939-1945 World War II related links: