Propaganda
was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The
German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material
produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people
understand the two great totalitarian systems of the twentieth century
by giving them access to the primary material. For
further information, see the
FAQ. New items are described in the GPA Blog.
My book titled Bending Spines: The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic (Michigan State University Press, 2004) provides an analysis of much of the material on the German Propaganda Archive. It can be ordered in the United States through Amazon. It is also available in a French translation. A Chinese edition appeared in July 2012 but was almost immediately banned by the Chinese government. It was apparently “unbanned” for a while, but I have been told that it is again banned.
NOTE: Some of the pages on the GPA go back to the earlierst days of the Internet (1996). I'm gradually updating the HTML coding, which sometimes results in unintended consequences. If you encounter a garbled page, please drop me an email (bytw@calvin.edu).
Nazi Propaganda |
The theory and practice of propaganda |
| Pre-1933 Material | Essays by Goebbels, posters and other material |
| 1933-1945 Material | Propaganda of the Third Reich |
| Speeches by Hitler, Goebbels, Ley, Göring, and Streicher. | |
| Attacks on the Jews. | |
| Posters, caricatures, and photographs | |
| The war from the Nazi perspective | |
| A variety of Nazi propaganda | |
| What Nazi propagandists were reading | |
| Links to sites relevant to Nazi propaganda | |
East German Propaganda |
Marxist propaganda: 1945-1989 |
| Speeches on the Berlin Wall and more | |
| A variety of GDR propaganda | |
| Wall propaganda material and posters | |
| What GDR propagandists were reading | |
| Links to other East German propaganda sites |
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This site is maintained by Randall Bytwerk. Contact me.
Professor Emeritus, Calvin University
Affiliate Professor, LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania