Live auction - Lot 347
[Periodical - WWII]
Signal. Special edition of the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung.
Berlin, Deutscher Verlag Berlin, 1940-1944
Hammer price: €
280
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
6 vol., 4to (n.c., various conditions).
Orig. publ. cased bindings.
Almost complete series in French with 100 issues corresponding to 101 numb. (of 113 or 115 numb.): 1940 is complete with 17 numb. (n. 1 in duplicate in English) - 1941 and 1942 are complete with 24 numb. (n. 23 & 24 in 1 issue for both years (special issue)) - 1943 is complete with 24 numb. (special n. from the East) - 1944 is incomplete with 12 (of 19) numb. (n. 11 in Dutch).
Signal was a very famous propaganda bimonthly translated in more than 25 languages and published by the Wehrmacht during WWII from April 1940 to March 1945 exclusively in countries outside Germany (in countries under occupation, neutral or adversaries). The editors were Harald Lechenperg (1940-1941), Heinz Medefind (1941) and Wilhelm Reets (1942-1944). The French edition is the most widely distributed and has many variations from the German and other foreign language versions with articles promoting French culture and army, the battle against URSS, etc. Articles from the German version have been deleted in the French edition. This variation can be explained by the search to "rally the French by nourishing the illusion of a collaboration".
Ref. C. Aslangul-Rallo, pp. 56-67 (https://www.cairn.info/revue-materiaux-pour-l-histoire-de-notre-temps-2020-1-page-56.htm).