The Black Corps

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The Black Corps (1937)

The Black Corps with the subtitles Newspaper of the Schutzstaffeln of the NSDAP - Organ of the Reichsführung SS was considered the battle and advertising sheet of the SS . The SS sheet was published by Franz-Eher-Verlag , which also published the Völkischer Beobachter .

This newspaper appeared in the open every Wednesday and every SS man was obliged to read it and to ensure that it was distributed. The editor was SS leader Gunter d'Alquen .

The paper was hostile to the Church , and numerous articles also hounded against Freemasons and Jews .

Mainly, however, the SS was glorified and there were numerous articles that proudly reported on the work of the SS-Totenkopfstandarten in the concentration camps ; For example, the article KZ and its inmates (Issue 7 of February 13, 1936, p. 10) reports on the Esterwegen concentration camp .

The first edition of the Black Corps appeared on March 6, 1935 with a circulation of 70,000 copies. In November of the same year 200,000 and by the end of 1944 around 750,000 were launched. The last issue appeared in April 1945.

The newspaper was published in close cooperation with the SS's own secret service, the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD). All reports and news were discussed with him, so the SD regularly supplied the newspaper with new articles.

The responses to the rubric "Readers' letters with a request for comments / information" were sent immediately to the security service and could possibly be. This could result in the direct arrest of an accused because these reports or letters to the editor were handed over to the Gestapo .

literature

  • Jan Brandt : Strictly maintaining the form. The management of the SS magazine "Das Schwarze Korps" , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 105, May 7, 2005, ( HTML; 25 kB ( Memento from July 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Helmut Heiber / Hildegard von Kotze (ed.): Facsimile cross-section through the Black Corps . Scherz, Munich 1968, ( facsimile cross-sections through newspapers and magazines 12).
  • Hilde Kammer / Elisabet Bartsch: Youth Lexicon National Socialism. Terms from the period of tyranny 1933–1945 . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-16288-1 , ( rororo manual, Rororo 6288).
  • Christian Kositza: 'The Black Corps. The newspaper of the protection squadrons of the NSDAP. Organ der Reichsführung SS 'on Judeozid , Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-2882-9 .
  • Mario Zeck: The black corps. History and shape of the organ of the Reichsführung SS. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-484-34051-0 , ( Media in Research + Teaching Ser. A, 51), (At the same time: Tübingen, Univ., Diss. , 2000).
  • Philip Kovačević: The Balkans from the perspective of the SS. Reception and construction of the Balkan area in the SS magazine “Das Schwarze Korps”, AVM, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86924-843-1 .
  • Sebastian Winter: Gender and sexuality drafts in the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps: a psychoanalytical-social-psychological study . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8379-2289-9 .

Web links

Commons : Das Schwarze Korps  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Illustration in Günter Morsch : From Sachsenburg to Sachsenhausen. Berlin 2007, p. 245.
  2. ^ Hilde Kammer and Elisabeth Bartsch: Jugendlexikon Nationalozialismus , 1st edition, article "Das Schwarze Korps", p. 43/44, ISBN 3-499-16288-1 .