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 some of the material on the German Propaganda Archive. It can be ordered in the United States through Amazon. It is available in French and a bootlegged translation in Iran.
A Chinese translation 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. The book has had some influence on “The Great Translation Movement,” a project by overseas Chinese to put material from internal Chinese media on the Internet. According to participants in that project, my book is “terrifyingly familiar.”
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 |
| Rhetoric by Hitler, Goebbels, Ley, Göring, and Streicher. | |
| Attacks on the Jews. | |
| Posters, caricatures, art, 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-Leninist 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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Last edited 20 March 2025
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