An issue of ‘Frauen Warte’ a Nazi magazine marketed to women, 1940. Frauen Warte (or “Women’s Worth” at least when translated using Google) was a women’s interest magazine put out by the Nazi party starting in 1935. Published twice a week Frauen Warte was full of recommendations and “advice” on how to properly raise children so they would be strong enough to “defend their fatherland with their lives,” how to clean and maintain their homes, and fashion advice that fell within the Führer’s tastes of respectability. Frauen-Warte even went so far as to include specific sewing patterns for clothing for women to make for themselves and their children. In more than one issue during the magazine’s run, a school set up by the Nazi party called the Reich Brides’ and Housewives’ School in Husbäke in Oldenburg was discussed in great, rather enthusiastic and misogynistic detail. A page from ‘Frauen Warte’ detailing the activities at the Brides’ and Housewives’ School in Husbäke in Oldenburg. Brides and aspiring housewives (according to Nazi doctrine a woman’s place was to get married, have children and care for their family) would attend the school for a...
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War is hell, and tragedy, and terrible, terrible posters.
German Nazi politician and minister of propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels with his wife Magda and their children, Helga, Hildegard, Helmut, Hedwig, Holdine and Heidrun, 1942. Also present is Harald...
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Daily Express foreign correspondent Sefton Delmer , making a propaganda broadcast to Germany from the BBC, 1st November 1941. Delmer worked for the Special Operations Executive organizing 'Black...
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BU 6911. Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce known as Lord Haw Haw lies in an ambulance after his arrest by British officers at Flensburg Germany on 29 May 1945
