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Issue Date: #17 1934/35 (Volume 2)
Contents: The issue includes an article on the
role of women in the Nazi state.
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Issue Date: #22 1936/37 (Volume 5)
Contents: The cover photo of the beaming lad is captioned: "Germany's
youth belongs to the Führer!" It includes a remarkable
poem praising Hitler that faces a drawing of him. There are articles
on the education of the youth, including one on the
new German educational philosophy.
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Issue Date: #20 1937/38 (Volume 6)
Contents: The cover art shows a woman holding a happy child, defended
by a man holding a sword and a farmer plowing the soil. There are
articles on the importance of agriculture, the party's training
schools and fashion.
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Issue Date: August 1938
Contents: The cover caption reads: "Happy families are the
best foundation of our people." A poem titled "My Boy" has a mother saying that she will
live on through her baby son. The first article discusses the importance
of the home. The next is a letter from a mother with many children.
Next follows an article on the importance of play for children.
Another article covers a new marriage law. An illustrated article
discusses a school for brides. There are six pages on fashion and
cooking.
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Issue Date: April 1939
Contents: The cover shows a village May Day celebration with a
decided Nazi face.
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Issue Date: 1st May issue 1939
Contents: A Mother's Day issue.
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Issue Date: June 1939
Contents: The caption under the picture says: "The victory
of life is the meaning of the world!" The lead article is on
health education.
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Issue Date: September 1939
Contents: The cover is on the 1939 Nuremberg Party Rally,
which was to be the "Party Rally of Peace," though
it was canceled when World War II began. The first six pages
cover the rally. The next article is by Gertrud Scholz-Klink,
the head of the Nazi women's organization. It is headed by the
quotation: "The German woman must be able to think politically
so that she can with pride feel, think and sacrifice as the one
who maintains her people." An article discusses the S. A.
Another covers the city of Danzig, captured during the invasion
of Poland. There is fashion news, and a pattern.
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Issue Date: October 1939
Contents: The issue includes a note to the readers explaining why
a women's magazine is necessary during the war.
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Issue Date: November 1939
Contents: The cover commemorates 9 November, the anniversary
of Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. It was the "holiest"
day on the Nazi calendar. There is a speech by Rudolf Hess to
German women. There is also material on fashion and cooking.
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Issue Date: January 1940
Contents: The cover shows a child making a snowball. The lead
article is titled "Life Must Win,"
and is a kind of mediation on the new year. There are articles
on the war effort, and fashion material.
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Issue Date: February 1940
Contents: The cover shows Hermann Göring with his daughter
Edda. The first two pages claim England is responsible for the
war. An article titled "The Expert Housewife of Today"
discusses schooling for women in home economics. There is the
usual fashion and homemaking news.
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Issue Date: March 1940
Contents: The cover shows a house being constructed in conquered
Polish territory. The caption: "Germany is building in the
East." Several articles deal with plans to resettle Germans
in the newly conquered lands. There is fashion and homemaking
news, including information on clothing rationing.
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Issue Date: 1st April issue 1940
Contents: The cover shows a woman plowing, a factory producing,
and a German soldier's head. The point is "We're all in this
together." The first article deals with farming women during
war. There is an article criticizing life in England, and various
material on fashion and homemaking, along with the best use of the
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Issue Date: 2nd May issue 1940
Contents: This was the Mother's Day issue for 1940. I've translated
the lead editorial, titled "Mother's
Day 1940," which claims that National Socialism has done
wonderful things for women, and another piece discussing the Reich
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Issue Date: June 1940
Contents: The cover shows German naval units in action. One article
deals with relations between Germany and recently conquered Denmark.
An article titled "Ready to Die/Ready
to Live" promotes having children, even during war. Another
deals with the experiences of children in camps. And there are articles
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Issue Date: January 1941
Contents: The cover commemorates January 30, the anniversary of
the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. This was a major national holiday
during the Third Reich.
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Issue Date: May 1941
Contents: The caption under the picture says: "The rhythm
of labor resounds again in the factories; A nation has clenched
the fist that will force you, England, to the ground."
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Issue Date: June 1941
Contents: The rather formidable woman on the cover is a BDM leader
from Gau Salzburg. A variety of interior articles cover
women working for the war effort. There is a contest on the theme
"In which lands does the victorious flag of Greater Germany
wave?" Ten pictures of various countries are to be identified.
First prize is 100 marks. There are the usual articles on fashion
and cooking.
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Issue Date: #13/1942 (Spring)
Contents: The cover painting is captioned "Comrades."
A nurse stands in front of two soldiers, one of whom is wounded.
Interior articles deal with the Bolshevist threat, the blessed future
of German children once Germany wins the war, the work
of nurses on the Eastern front, and two pages of Soviet cartoons.
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Issue Date: April 1943
Contents: The cover caption translates as follows: "German
women always know that it is a matter of the existence or nonexistence
of their people. Total war is the demand of the hour. Everybody
help!" This issue appeared after Goebbels' "Total War
Speech" in February 1943, and just before Hitler's birthday.
The lead article, titled "Strength from
Love and Faith," encourages German woman to work hard as
a kind of birthday present for the Führer. Other articles discuss
women in factory work, German youth working in the East, and provide
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Issue Date: December 1943
Contents: The caption under the picture says: "Winter Solstice
1943." It's the Christmas issue, but the Nazis were a little
nervous about putting too much emphasis on Christmas, so they preferred
to look back to pagan celebrations of the change of seasons. The
cover vividly embodies Nazi ideology: A new-born child in the cradle
is surrounded by the family, while in the field soldiers mourn a
dead comrade. The baby will carry on the chain of life.
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Issue Date: Late 1944
Contents: The caption under the picture says: "Despite battle,
war and death, Christmas remains for us the festival of love and
the faithful heart." The issue has considerable material on
Christmas. One article has the words of a soldier to women and children.
There are recipes and suggestions for easily-made Christmas gifts.
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Issue Date: Early 1945
Contents: This is one of the last issues to appear. It contains
several appeals to fight to the end. The lead article concludes
in this way:
"We face reality every day — we see its dangers and
misery —but we have learned to understand it rightly, but
also to understand our opportunities.
We are small and insignificant people in the face of daily events
who know that in the end they will somehow die. But for just that
reason, we want to live each day life gives us ambitiously and
ready for battle, not fearing death.
With the opportunities our hearts give us, we want to be queens
who fanatically believe 'that god will do great things through
us,' as a great German once promised us. The more we live this
faith, the better we will master what we face. It will not defeat
us, but rather we see the day when we will master it.
Whatever the new year may bring, in our work, in our conduct,
in our love and if necessary in our death, we should loudly sing
'Germany, Germany, Above All.'"
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