Signal (magazine)
Signal was a Nazi propaganda magazine which was published from 1940 to 1945 in several European countries.
Development, support
The German -language edition was produced only for Switzerland. In the German Empire itself, they did not appear. A model for the blade was the American magazine Life. 1943 reached the edition of which appeared in different languages and countries issue of the journal, the height of more than 2.4 million copies.
Appearance in different countries
Signal was assumed to be organ of the Wehrmacht and should advertise in German-occupied or allied countries for the alleged European mission of National Socialism. For the Foreign Ministry significant influence became its chief press officer Paul Karl Schmidt " on foreign magazines, signal ' (...). In addition to the glorification of Nazism and the Wehrmacht were the propagation of a 'European bloc economy ' under German management and the fight against the Bolsheviks ' to the preferred Signal' issues. " The reference to the common goal of a struggle against the ideological arch-enemy, the Bolshevism should, integrating effect. Signal appeared in the national languages in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and even in a scaled- English edition, which by means of the V-weapons the channel were transported. Until the entry into the war in December 1941 the English edition arrived in the United States. Overall, published between April 1940 and March 1945, more than hundred regular issues, usually twice a month, each with forty pages and from autumn 1942 in twenty different language editions.
Appearance
Signal was characterized by a prominent for its time print quality. Each issue contained several, usually eight color pages, which was still very unusual. Since the magazine aimed at a foreign audience, efforts were made to make the propaganda more subtle than within the empire. The magazine was published in the German publisher. Editorial office was up to the March 1945 Berlin.
Line
Chief editor of signal were: Harald Lechenperg ( 1940-41 ), Heinz Medefind (1941 ), Wilhelm Reetz ( 1942-44 ), and finally the SS members Gislher Savoy. The staff of signal among the best journalists and Image reporters who were the National Socialist State. Among the photographers who worked for the paper, were Arthur Grimm, Hanns Hubmann, Hilmar Pabel, Benno Wundshammer and André Zucca.