Third Reich Book - "Signale der neuen Zeit" by Dr. Joseph Goebbels
A hardbound volume titled "Signale der neuen Zeit" ("Signals of the New Age"), a collection of twenty-five selected speeches by Joseph Goebbels. The title page identifies the work as the 7th edition, 41st-45th thousand print run, dated 1939, and published by Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachfolger, Munich, with the party eagle emblem of the publishing house printed above the imprint. The cloth binding carries the title in stylized red and white lettering on the front board and spine.
Franz Eher Nachfolger served as the official publishing house of the NSDAP, and this compilation of Goebbels's speeches reflects the propaganda literature produced under its imprint during the late 1930s.
Joseph Goebbels served as Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until 1945, directing the NSDAP's control of press, radio, film, and public messaging, and was among the regime's most prominent orators. Franz Eher Nachfolger, based in Munich, functioned as the party's central publishing house, producing Mein Kampf and a wide range of official NSDAP literature alongside speech collections such as this one. The high print run indicated on the title page reflects the scale of distribution such propaganda works achieved within Germany in the years preceding the Second World War.
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A hardbound volume titled "Signale der neuen Zeit" ("Signals of the New Age"), a collection of twenty-five selected speeches by Joseph Goebbels. The title page identifies the work as the 7th edition, 41st-45th thousand print run, dated 1939, and published by Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachfolger, Munich, with the party eagle emblem of the publishing house printed above the imprint. The cloth binding carries the title in stylized red and white lettering on the front board and spine.
Franz Eher Nachfolger served as the official publishing house of the NSDAP, and this compilation of Goebbels's speeches reflects the propaganda literature produced under its imprint during the late 1930s.
Joseph Goebbels served as Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until 1945, directing the NSDAP's control of press, radio, film, and public messaging, and was among the regime's most prominent orators. Franz Eher Nachfolger, based in Munich, functioned as the party's central publishing house, producing Mein Kampf and a wide range of official NSDAP literature alongside speech collections such as this one. The high print run indicated on the title page reflects the scale of distribution such propaganda works achieved within Germany in the years preceding the Second World War.