Pre-1933 Nazi Propaganda

This page is part of the German Propaganda Archive, a collection of translations of propaganda material from the Nazi and East German eras. It focuses on Nazi propaganda during what they called the Kampfzeit, the years when the party was fighting for political power (1919-1933). For further information, see the FAQ. New items are described in the GPA Blog.

I. Material by Joseph Goebbels

• “We Demand”: Goebbels explains what the Nazis want (25 July 1927).
• “Isidor”: An attack on Bernhard Weiss (15 August 1927).
• “Hail Moscow”: Leave the Communist Party and join the Nazis (21 November 1927).
• “Around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church”: Depravity in Berlin (23 January 1928).
• “The World Enemy”: An essay attacking international finance (19 March 1928).
• “Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag?”: Goebbels explains why the Nazis are running for elective office (30 April 1928).
• “And You Really Want to Vote for Me?”: An election satire (7 May 1928).
• “Why Do We Oppose the Jews?” An anti-Semitic article (30 July 1928).
• “When Hitler Speaks”: In praise of Hitler (19 November 1928).
• “Kütemeyer”: Goebbels’s eulogy for a Berlin Nazi killed in street fighting (26 November 1928).
• “Germans: Buy only from the Jew!”: Goebbels attacks the Jews at Christmas (10 December 1928).
• “Toilet Graffiti”: Goebbels responds to attacks on him (7 January 1929).
• “The Jew”: A typical early attack on the Jews (21 January 1929).
• “Der Führer”: Goebbels on the occasion of Hitler’s 40th birthday (22 April 1929).
• “Raise High the Flag!”: Goebbels begins building the myth of Horst Wessel (27 February 1930).
• “One Hundred and Seven”: On the Nazi election victory in September 1930 (21 September1930).
• “Christmas 1931”: Goebbels on Christmas (December 1931).
• “We are Voting for Hitler”: A 1932 election appeal (7 March 1932).
• “The Rising Tide”: After the 10 April 1932 presidential election.
• “Advice for a Dictator”: Goebbels on how to be one (1 September 1932).
• “The Chancellor without a People”: After a disappointing election (7 November 1932).

• Lenin or Hitler: One of Goebbels’s early speeches, given often (1926).
• The Nazi-Sozi: What do Nazis believe? (1927).
• Those Damned Nazis: A widely distributed pamphlet first published in 1929.

• “The Storm Breaks Loose”: A speech in Berlin on 9 July 1932.
• “Make Way for Young Germany”: An election speech in Munich on 31 July 1932.

• Goebbels on propaganda at the 1927 Nuremberg Rally
• “Knowledge and Propaganda”: A 1928 lecture on propaganda, some of Goebbels’ most detailed thinking on the matter.
• “Wille und Weg”: A Goebbels essay from 1931 on the role of Nazi propaganda.
• “The Situation” (August 1931): Goebbels analyzes the political situation.

II. Other propaganda material

• Posters: A collection of posters from 1921-1933.
• Mass Pamphlets
  • Those Damn Nazis: A widely distributed pamphlet from 1929.
  • The Red Plague: An attack on the Social Democrats (August 1930).
  • Human Export is Coming!: Germans to be exported to cover reparations (October 1931).
  • Hitler to Brüning: Hitler’s response to Chancellor Brüning in December of 1931.
  • The Bolshevist Swindle: An early 1932 pamphlet aimed at the Communists.
  • The Newspapers Lie!: An early 1932 pamphlet aimed at the Socialists.
  • Adolf Hitler the German Worker and Front Soldier: A pamphlet from the presidential election
  • Why Hindenburg?: A February or March 1932 pamphlet.
  • Facts and Lies about Hitler: A March 1932 pamphlet
  • Nazi Emergency Economic Proposals: From about May 1932.
  • Bring Down the System!: A pamphlet from summer 1932.
• Hitler re-establishes the NSDAP (1925): Available in my book Landmark Speeches of National Socialism.
• The 1927 Nuremberg Rally: Material from a 1927 Nazi booklet.
• Nazis in Harburg: A 1929 article on Nazi activities in the town of Harburg.
• Anti-Semitic Caricatures from Der Stürmer: 1928-1931: Taken from Julius Streicher’s weekly.
• Cartoons from Brennessel: The Nazi Party humor magazine, founded in 1931.
• A Hitler rally in Gera: A 1931 article from the Illustrierter Beobachter.
• Nazi factory propaganda in Ludwigshafen: An appeal to factory workers (1931 or 1932).
• The Hitler No One Knows: Parts of a 1932 illustrated book on Hitler.
• Flamethrower: A propaganda flyer from June 1932.
• Hitler Over Germany: Hitler’s aerial speaking tour in 1932.
• Rote Erde: Articles from a 27 October 1932 Nazi newspaper.
• Communists!: A 1932 election flyer aimed at communists in Berlin.

III. Material intended for Nazi propagandists

• “Propaganda”: A 1927 guidebook for Nazi propagandists.
• Modern Political Propaganda: A 1930 pamphlet for Nazi propagandists.
• “How I Treat a Local Group Leader”: a 1931 piece from the Nazi monthly for propagandists, discussing problems in the propaganda system.
• “How I Treat a Speaker”: A 1931 piece from the same periodical discussing problems speakers had with local group leaders.
• Rural Propaganda: A 1932 piece on how to reach the countryside.
• An Analysis of Nazi Propaganda: Written after the July 1932 Reichstag election.
• Reaching the Marxists: A late 1932 essay discussing the difficulties in appealing to Marxists.