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The Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda or National Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Publicity had a very important role in Nazi Germany. Located in a grand office across the street from Adolf Hitler’s Reichschancellery in central Berlin and headed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, it was officially in control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life and heavily enforced the spread of Nazi ideology. It controlled absolutely every aspect of art, book, magazine and newspaper publication, radio and TV, live theater, movies and music in Nazi Germany.

Unser Wille und Weg (Our Will and Our Pathway) was the Nazi Party monthly magazine for National Socialist enlightenment published by the Reichspropagandaleitung and edited by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. The publication contained articles on the purpose, strategy, methods and effective use of Nazi propaganda. It was published for political leaders of the NSDAP by the Central Publishing House of the Nazi Party, Zentralverlag der NSDAP Franz Eher of Munich.

Few collectors or museums own even a single copy of Unser Wille und Weg. It is exactly the kind of material that was extremely important to the leadership of the Nazi Party, and its destruction following World War II was very important to the Allies in their de-Nazification efforts. Very few examples of Unser Wille und Weg magazines published for NSDAP political leaders survive anywhere in the 21st century.

Every issue of Unser Wille und Weg starts with a chapter called Die Lage which in this case translates as “the situation” or “the state of affairs”. Some of the subjects covered in these 1938 issues of Unser Wille und Weg are: propaganda or agitation - your tasks and borders, the proper rebuttal to anti-German propaganda, the goal of the Nazi culture politics in music, the mobilization of rural youth, critical feedback from radio listeners, tips on how to make Nazi Party meetings more memorable, labor protection in the National Socialist State, economic knowledge every Nazi Party Political Leader should have, planned labor use, film propaganda, national participation in the economy, social benefits for families, the economical and cultural decline in the Soviet Union, technical advancement in the broadcasting industry and how to use it for propaganda purposes, Germany’s right to colonies, the economic value of German colonies in Africa, new foreign propaganda tactics against Nazi Germany, foreign propaganda value of movies, the road from ‘asphalt press’ to the national press of Nazi Germany, improving air raid protection, Nazi propaganda in books, Nazi propaganda for rural German citizens, the development of film censorship, etc.

The red linen hardcover book offered on this USMBOOKS web page contains all twelve issues of Unser Wille und Weg for the year 1938 (Heft 1 - 12, January - December 1938).

The 1938 magazines are bound in a rare special patented custom Third Reich binder called Sammel Mappe which has the title and an eagle and swastika embossed in white blocking on the front cover. The title is embossed on the spine as well above the year 1938.

This 6-1/2 x 9-1/8 inch book has over 380 pages and even comes with an inserted ad / order form for the Sammel Mappe or hardcover protective binder the magazines are in from the seller - the Zentralverlag der NSDAP (Central Publishing House of the Nazi Party). Amazingly, it even has the perforated instructions inside the back cover on how to add the magazines to the custom binder as well as two extra metal pins to secure each individual magazine!

The December issue of Unser Wille und Weg starts with the announcement that in 1939 the magazine will be published in a larger format, on better quality paper and that it will feature more illustrations and that due to these technical changes it will appear 14 days later than normal, in mid January instead of the first of the month.

These bound 1938 examples of Unser Wille und Weg came from the library of the NSDAP Ortsgruppe St. Johannis in Nürnberg, Gau Franken and the July issue had the round rubber stamp of the NSDAP Ortsgruppe St. Johannis on the cover and title page.

In 1938 the size of Nazi Germany grew with the addition of Austria and the new Nazi Gau Sudetenland from the former Czechoslovakia. These issues of Unser Wille und Weg have material to help Political Leaders: the history of the NSDAP in Austria, the influence of Jews in Austria, important knowledge about the economy of Sudetenland, increased Nazi propaganda in Sudetenland, and more.

There are Hitler quotes ‘sprinkled’ through the pages of these issues of Unser Wille und Weg as well as new book reviews, advertising for important Nazi books published by the Central Publishing House of the Nazi Party, etc.

St. Johannis is a section of downtown Nürnberg, the City of Nazi Party Days in Julius Streicher’s Gau Franken. Any prospective purchaser might be interested to know that we acquired this 1938 book in a grouping of a dozen or so rare Third Reich publications that were ‘liberated’ shortly after the end of World War II by an American Army Captain working in an office that had been occupied during the Third Reich by staff of Ortsgruppe Nürnberg-St. Johannis.

Very rare 86 year old Nazi Party Political Leader material in very good condition. The bound magazines in the special custom Sammel Mappe have no unpleasant odor.