The Eagle

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The Eagle
The head bar of the "Adler"
description Propaganda magazine
language German , English , French , Spanish , Italian , Romanian
publishing company Scherl-Verlag Berlin ( Germany )
First edition March 1, 1939
Frequency of publication biweekly
Editor-in-chief Georg Böse

The eagle was the title of the propaganda illustrated by the Luftwaffe of the German Reich published by the Berlin Scherl Verlag .

history

On March 1, 1939, the Reich Aviation Ministry had started to publish a magazine specializing in the activities of the Air Force, Der Adler . In terms of content, “Der Adler” relied heavily on material from the Reich Propaganda Ministry and was intended to inspire young people in Germany to serve in the Wehrmacht . As early as February 1939, the "sample issue ...- 1939" appeared.

The editor-in-chief of the Adler was Georg Böse , the editorial office was in Berlin-Charlottenburg . "Der Adler" appeared every 14 days initially only in German, which was already sold abroad. These had the imprint “Price abroad 15 Pfg.” Or “Abroad 15 Rfg”. With No. 23-1940 (setting No. 19-1944) a separate German-language foreign edition for European countries appeared for the first time with additional reports on civil and cultural life in Germany. At its peak, this version was published in the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Holland, Italy, Croatia, Norway, Protectorate, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Hungary. Independently of this, there were French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and English-language editions.

French edition: No. 14-1940 to No. 11-1941 as a bilingual version French / German. From No. 12-1941 to No. 17-1944 only in French. Initially for Belgium, France, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia. Later only for France, Belgium, Switzerland and Portugal.

Italian edition: from No. 13-1940 to 14-1944 as bilingual Italian / German version. It initially reached Italy, Hungary and Slovakia. Later it only appeared for Italy.

Romanian edition: From No. 17-1942 to No. 1944 for Romania.

Spanish edition: from No. 14-1940 to No. 13-1944. It was published bilingually in German / Spanish until No. 11-1941. After that only in Spanish. The output reached Spain and Portugal. Issues No. 14 and 15-1940 were also published in Brazil and Argentina.

English edition: from No. 14-1940 to No. 17-1944. From No. 14-1940 to No. 25-1940 the edition was published bilingual English / German for Denmark, Holland and Sweden. From No. 26-1940 only in English. The country details were missing. However, especially for the USA there were issues No. 1 up to 19-1941 with the imprint "USA 8 Cents". After the United States entered the war in connection with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , this label was omitted.

There is also a rare Arabic-language edition with color pictures.

The number of pages in the issues varies from issue to issue. Due to the war, the pages decreased from 32 to 24 (special issues contained even more pages). However, the foreign language numbers contained more pages due to additional reports.

In addition, free prints were issued in the course of publication: special print or special print not for sale, school edition and edition V. Issue No. 2-1940 was confiscated by the police due to Hermann Göring's work and No. 2a was issued for it. The reason was the illustration of the new Me 110 . Issue No. 2-1940, however, exists in small numbers. Instead of the confiscated edition, No. 2a-1940 appeared with a different cover and content.

In issue 19 of September 12, 1944, the following information can be read on page 277:

“In the course of the concentration measures in the area of ​​the press caused by the total war, the Luftwaffe magazine DER ADLER is discontinuing its publication for the duration of the war with this issue. This frees up additional forces for the Wehrmacht and armaments. We thank our readers and friends for the loyalty they have shown to us. With our confident belief in victory, we combine the hope that we will be able to deliver the ADLER to all our customers in the usual way after the victory. "

Scherl-Verlag also published a series of books based on the magazine Adler-Bücherei , the Adler-Jahrbuch (only existed in 1941/1942), the Adler-Kalender (1941-1944), the Adler-Liederheft and the Adler-Spiele (war games for children).

Issue sequence

Publishing year 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
notebooks 1 to 23 1 to 26 1 to 26 1 to 26 1 to 26 1 to 19
A total of 146 issues were published.

literature

  • Sidney L. Mayer, Masama Tokoi (ed.): The eagle. A selection from the Luftwaffe magazine 1939–1944. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-577-4 .
  • Der Adler, issues No. 1/1939 to No. 19/1944

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