Völkischer Beobachter Front Pages: January 1944

Background: This page is part of a larger project to trace the history of World War II as reflected in the headlines of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party’s daily newspaper.

January 1944 had no good military news for Germany. Headlines reported other matters, often focusing on difficulties in the Allied camp.. Elsewhere on the front page people could read between the lines to see that the war was going poorly on the Eastern Front, but the overall theme was that Adolf Hitler and German soldiers would win in the end.

Völkischer Beobachter: January 1944

	1 /2 January 1944 “Only One Task: To Ruin the Devilish Plans of the Jewish World Arsonists” The Führer’s Appeal to the German People for the New Year
	3 January 1944 Major Defensive Battles in the New Year Undiminished Touch Winter Battles between Witebsk and the Black Sea
	4 January 1944 Just Like the English in France Before.... US-American Troops Demoralize the British Island People Scandalous Incidents Intensity Tensions between USA-Troops and the Locals
	5 January 1944 Fiction and Truth in Anglo-America Raw Reality Drives Away Officially Promoted Optimism The Man in the Street Should Not Learn the Truth about the Course of the War
	6 January 1944 How they Lied to and Betrayed the Italian People The Lying Scoundrels of 1918 Have Not Changed
	7 January 1944 Stalin Scolds Wilkie Moscow Rejects Any USA Meddling in Eastern Europe Pravda Insolently Rejects even a Modest Question from New York
	8 January 1944 We Will Give the Appropriate Answer This Is How They Would Like to Treat Us 75 Years of Jewish-Bolshevist “Oversight” German Schools under Jewish Supervision Note: The article deals with Allied plans for postwar Germany.
	9 January 1944 Western Powers as Vanguards of Bolshevism North Africa in Moscow’s Hands From Giraus and de Gaulle to Bogonolov and Wyschenksi — An Exemplary Path Note: The article’s argument is that the Bolshevists will be taking over North Africa.
	10 January 1944 English Newspaper Proposes: German Children for Forced Labor in the USSR A Devilish New “Educational Plan” Should the Plutocratic-Bolshevist Alliance Win
	11 January 1944 The Eastern Front in the Third Winter Toughest Defensive Battle between Witebsk and the Black Sea
	12 January 1944 An Historic Crime Punished Death Penalty for Traitors to the Italian People Ciano, de Bono, Gottardi, Marinelli, and Pareschi Executed
	13 January 1944 The Biggest Aerial Battle of This War 136 Terror Bombers Destroyed The Gangsters Paid for a Day Attack on Central Germany with the Heaviest Losses of “Four-Motored” Planes
	14 January 1944 The Thieving Powers Proclaim: Harshest Conditions for Betrayed Italy The Laughing Third Party — Bolshevism
	15 January 1944 New Deceitful Maneuver by the USA President Roosevelt Makes Promises That He Has Not Fulfilled for Ten Years
	16 January 1944 An Englishman on England’s Social Conditions “Half the Population is Undernourished” New Variant of the Theme “Freedom from Want” Note: The shadowy figure to the right was part of a propaganda campaign urging people to keep quiet, since spies might be anywhere.
	17 January 1944 Rosenberg Speaks at a Worldview Ceremony in Prague German and European Intellectual Freedom Reckoning with the Enemies of the Reich and Europe
	18 January 1944 The Swindle of Tehran Revealed Stalin Will Not Negotiate about Poland A Painful Slap for London’s Poles and Their Former Protectors
	19 January 1944 The Results of the Strong Rebuff of Poland A Free Hand for Stalin in Eastern Europe Washington Says: Serious Loss of Prestige for the USA and England
	20 January 1944 The British Admit War Guilt Too Late Amidst Hopeless Resignation
	21 January 1944 The Western Powers in Full Retreat Admit Complete Capitulation to Stalin Plutocratic Foreign Policy is Bound by the Betrayal at Tehran
	22 January 1944 Pound Meeting in the Japanese Parliament All Prerequisites for the Victory of Germany and Japan “The German People Offers one of the Most Splendid Perspectives on World History”
	23 January 1944 Our Obligation for the Coming Decision We Want to Produce More than Before! Gauleiter Sauckel’s Appeal to the German People
	24 January 1944 The Criminals Search for an Alibi England Wants to Deny Its Guilt for Terror Even Air Minister Sinclair Must Admit: Germany’s Fighting Morale is Unbroken
	25 January 1944 Surrendering Europe’s North Confirmed After Poland, Finland is Next Moscow: “If Soviet Troops March against Karelia, We Will Not Listen to Offers of Negotiation”
	26 January 1944 British Intelligence Makes a Rare Admission The Soviets Had Already Decided on War against the Reich in 1939 They Signed the Treaty with Us to Win Time for Armaments
	27 January 1944 An Eye Witness from North Africa American Occupation Troops Even Worse Than the British In the Land of “Liberated” French There is Hardly a Frenchman to Be Seen
	28 January 1944 Attlee Is Sent This Time England Vainly Tries to Deny Its Terror Blood Guilt Churchill’s Subordinate Insolently Speaks of “Protecting People and Property”
	29 January 1944 The Dominion at Risk London Attempts to Halt the Decline of the Empire Washington’s Further Penetration Is to be Hindered by a Conference
	30 January 1944 The Dangerous Example by Alfred Rosenberg 30 January was a major day on the Nazi calendar: the anniversary of the 1933 takeover of power. Rosenberg claims that just as the Nazis won in 1933, so they will win the war. The caption below the image: “Only one way! Straight ahead! To Victory!
	31 January 1944 This Battle Will End in the Greatest Victory of the German Reich The Führer Spoke to the German People from His Headquarters