Propaganda Book from the "West"

[Thälmannpionier]

Hello fellow Collectors,

I want to show you a very interesting book I have found lately.

Written in 1962 from a west german publisher..

"SED Funktionäre in Offiziersuniform"

shows some very nice Photos and the History of all or most NVA Generals and high Officers from the beginnig of the NVA!


So not only the "East" made Propaganda Books of the "West"

[ehrentitle]

It's an interesting book and has been mentioned in this forum before. I have a photocopy of it somewhere that I made from a copy that was in the library of the US Mission Berlin.

[Ralph P]

Hello all - Here are two threads to further assist Andreas' thread. Thanks Andreas...

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=144079

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=82256

[torstenbel]

Hi Andreas, there were quite a few anti-DDR books published in the BRD and particularly in the early 60s...here is another example ... Cheers, Torsten.

[Viktor]

Genossen, .....
The Duty Car has just finished being Winterised, it will be most Unfortunate for these Counterrevolutionaries and Wreckers....

Interesting Book Genossen...

[Ralph P]

Hello Torsten - Thanks for posting this book...Not familiar with the book you posted. Is this book have the same information like the other book?

[torstenbel]

Hello Torsten - Thanks for posting this book...Not familiar with the book you posted. Is this book have the same information like the other book?

Hi Ralph, not sure but I thought I had shown that book on the forum before .... I did show Andreas' book in a thread somewhere ... anyhow here are some more pics of the red book that I showed. It is not the same as the one from Andreas, but it shows a photographic comparison of why the DDR is basicaly just like the Third Reich ... rediculous propaganda really, as the same comparative photographs could be found to 'proof' that any country in the world is just like the Third Reich .... Cheers, Torsten.

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[Ralph P]

Thanks Torsten for the additional pictures. Not taking away that this is a propaganda photograph book, but having this type of book today would be of interest just from the stand point of going through the pictures from the early years.

[Mike G.]

I wholeheartedly agree with Ralph,

From a propaganda aspect the book is rubbish. But the East German photos appear quite interesting. So many are repetitive and the same pictures often appear in several different publications. These photos however all appear to be unique to this particular book.

[speedytop]

Hi,

there are some other books/booklets as "Propaganda Book from the "West".

For example:

- Die Dritte Norm; see the thread about Petershagen/Adam
- ... ins eigene Gesicht; comparative (eastern) photographs, propaganda about West Germany compared wih the reality in the "Sowjetzone"
- Rechts Links; political radicalism in Germany, looking eastwards
- Die Menschenrechte und die SBZ; human rights theoretically and practically
- Wehrpropaganda und Wehrerziehung in der DDR; military education
- Mitten in Deutschland- Mitten im 20. Jahrhundert; about the "Zonengrenze", the zonal border
- Aufstand im Arbeiterparadies; rebellion 1953
- Der Aufstand im Juni; rebellion 1953
- Der grosse Verrat; with 180 Nazi members in policy, science and economy
- Militaristen! Blitzkriegsvorbereiter Revanchisten!; military domination in the DDR
- Deutschland ...drüben; the new "Bezirke" (districts) in the "Sowjetzone"
- Jugend in Mitteldeutschland; the domination of the party
- Verleumdungen Tatsachen; arguments against East German aspersions about the West German defence policy
- Berlin - 13. August; construction of the wall 1961
- Wir kamen durch; successful escape attempts
- Aufmarsch gegen die Freiheit; about the East German propaganda in West Germany
- Bewaffnete Organe in der DDR; about the military and paramilitary organizations
- Die Bewaffneten Organe der DDR; NVA and Kampfgruppen
- Gestohlene Freizeit Vormilitärische Ausbildung bei FDJ und HJ; premilitary training
- Armee der Revanche; participation of the NVA 1968 in the CSSR
- Zu Befehl Genosse Unterleutnant; reports from the everyday life of the NVA
- SED-Funktionäre in Offiziersuniform, see above Post 1 and next
- GST vormilitärische Ausbildung in der DDR; socialist military education
and so on

Regards
Uwe