Background: The Nazi Party depended heavily on speakers to get its message across. Those speakers needed to be informed. This is a collection of translations from the Redner-Schnellinformation, irregular bulletins sent to Nazi speakers with instructions on how to handle particular issues. They were issued by the Reichspropagandaleitung, the Party’s propaganda office.

Source: Incomplete runs of these are available at the Bundesarchiv in Berlin and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Leipzig. The last issue I have seen is dated mid-February 1944.

Speaker Express Information (1941-1944)

• Explaining Soviet resistance: Advice from September 1941.
• What to say about the USA: (February 1942).
• Frostbite, typhoid fever, and Soviet POWs: Speaker advice (February 1942).
• On cuts in food rations: Speaker advice (March 1942).
• The Allied press and using the word “propaganda”: Advice from May 1942.
• Avoid building false hopes of quick victory: Advice dated 25 August 1942.
• Even Americans think Germany can win the war: Advice dated 30 September 1942.
• No armistice with the USSR: (23 October 1942).
• On a speech by Wendell Willkie: (3 November 1942).
• Enemy plans to annihilate Germany: (6 November 1942).
• Submarine warfare: A bright spot after Stalingrad (Feb.-March 1943).
• Our Life Style Need Not Become Primitive: Women can still look good (17 March 1943).
• On the Jews: Spreading anti-Semitic hatred (5 May 1943).
• On a reduction in meat rations: Explaining an unpopular measure (12 May 1943).
• “Twilight of the Jews”: Even more vehement rhetoric (18 May 1943).
• The End of the African Campaign: Another lost battle (18 May 1943).
• Building confidence in victory: Germany will win (August 1943).
• On Allied bombing: Win first, then rebuild (September 1943).
• On treasonous Italy: The Allies are giving Italy what it deserves (September 1943).
• The Eastern Front: Germany, supposedly, is winning (September 1943).
• Re-activating the Nazi Party: Increasing the war effort (October 1943).
• On Lord Vansittart and Carpet Bombing: On British plans for Germany (Mid-February 1944).

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