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Extract from the NSDAP organization book on the Press and Propaganda Office of the Reich Youth Leadership (Hitler Youth), listing 21 publications for different categories of youth and different districts

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NSDAP (Nazi Party as an organization)

Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend)

Date: 1936

Literal Title: Press and Propaganda Office of the Hitler Youth

Defendant: Baldur Schirach, von

Total Pages: 2

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-3349

Citation: IMT (page 2756)

HLSL Item No.: 453091

Notes:At the end of the text the translator adds some information from the 1940 edition of the party manual.

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PS-3349: Description of the organization of the press anp propaganda office of the Reich youth leadership, as of 1936

ORGANIZATION BOOK OF THE NSDAP [Organisationsbuch der NSDAP], 1936 edition, published by the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, Franz Eher Successor, Munich, Pages 452-453.
Press and Propaganda Office of the Hitler Youth In the Press and Propaganda Office of the Reich. Youth Leadership, the entire press and propaganda work of the Hitler Youth is concentrated. Means of propaganda ar^ periodicals,
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newspapers, pamphlets, moving pictures, short films, placards, leaflets, etc.
The editor's offices are connected with the Press and Propaganda
Office of the Reich Youth Leadership.
The Reich Youth Leadership issues:
1. The "Reich Youth Press Service" [ Reichsjugend-Pressedienst, RJP].
2. The Reich Journal, "The HJ", [Reichszeitung, Die HJ].
3. The Leader Organ of the National Socialist Youth, "Will and Power" [Das Fuehrerorgan der nationalsozialistischen Jugend "Wille und Macht"].
4. The periodical for social problems "The Young Germany" [Die Zeitschrift fuer soziale Fragen, "Das Junge Deutschland"].
5. The illustrated periodical "The Fanfare" [Die illustrierte Zeitschrift, "Die Fanfare"].
6. The periodical of the B.D.M. (Bund der Deutschen Maedels), "The German Girl" [Das Deutsche Maedel].
7. The periodical of the Young Folk [Jungvolk], "Tomorrow" [Morgen].
8. The periodical of the deaf HJ, "The Fountain" [Zeitschrift der gehoerlosen HJ, "Die Quelle"].
9. "The Glider Pilot", [Der Segelflieger].
10. "Music and Folk" [Musik und Volk].
11. The Periodical for Blind People, "The Reveille" [Die Blindenzeitschrift, "Der Weckruf"].
The districts [Gebiete] issue: .
1. "The Fanfare", [Die Fanfare] (Districts: Middle Rhine, Kurhessen, Hessen-Nassau, West-Mark).
2. "The Young Elite" [Die Junge Garde] (District 5, Pommern).
3. "The Young Fellowship" [Die Junge Gefolgschaft] (District 18, Franken).
4. "The Outpost" [Der Vorposten] (District 25, Saarpfalz).
5. "Young Will" [Junger Wille] (District 16, Sachsen).
6. "North Borderland Youth" [Nordmarkjugend] (District 6, Nordmark).
7. "Reich-Storm-Flag" [Reichssturmfahne] (District 20, Wuerttemberg).
8. "The Storm Troop" [Der Sturmtrupp] (District 17, Thueringen). .
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9. "The Folk Youth" [Die Volksjugend] (District 21, Baden).
10. "Our Flag" [Unsere Fahne] (District 9, Westfalen). The RJP. is issued daily in an issue A with the supplements "Youth Abroad" [Jugend im Ausland], "Culture and Entertainment", [Kultur und Unterhaltung], "Education" [Erziehung], "The School" [Die Schule], "The Student" [Der Student], "The Hitler Boy" [Der Hitler jungej, "Young Folk" [Jungvolk], "The German Girl" [Das Deutsche Maedel], "HJ. Radio" [H.J. Funk], "Sport Service" [Sportdienst], "Social Work" [Soziale Arbeit], "Technique and Economy", [Technik und Wirtschaft] and, "Country Youth" [Landjugend].
A weekly edition B represents a summary of the daily editions. It is issued weekly on Wednesdays, and another edition, C is issued on the second and 4th Thursday of each month for smaller newspapers.
The work of the Section Young Folk is distributed to all fields .of the office and serves the press and propagandistic representation of the problems of the Young Folk in the public by use of all available possibilities.
The main section, propaganda, is organizationally in permanent relation, through liaison officers, with the Reich Ministry for People's. Enlightenment and Propaganda and with the Reich Propaganda Leadership of the NSDAP.

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