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Title: Volkischer Beobachter (The National Observer), a Collection of Nazi-German newspapers, the Munich edition, 1935-1945
Predominant Dates:1943 -- 1945
ID: RG-76/RG-76
Creator: Central Publishing House of the NSDAP
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Newspapers are arranged chronologically in to sub Record Groups as assigned by the processor
Languages: German [ger]
This is a selected Collection of the publication named Voelkischer Beobachter (The National Observer), an official press organ of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). It is the Munich edition of Voelkischer Beobachter.
Our repository has incomplete issues of the period between 1935 and 1945. The more completed is the period between 1943 and 1945.
Voelkischer Beobachter (the National Observer) was the newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party) from 1920. It first appeared weekly, then daily from 8 February 1923. For twenty-five years it formed part of the official public face of the Nazi party
The "fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany" (Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands) had its origin in the Münchner Beobachter ("Munich Observer"), which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society and in August 1919 was renamed Völkischer Beobachter. The NSDAP purchased it in December 1920 on the initiative of Chase Bauduin and Dietrich Eckart, who became the first editors. In 1921, Adolf Hitler acquired all shares in the company, making him the sole owner of the publication.