Shield booklets

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Schild-Hefte - Komaden im Kampf was a war booklet novel series by Schild-Verlag .

series

In the years 1953 to 1954 , 16 booklets were published in this booklet romance series , each with a length of 32 pages. In contrast to Landser , Fliegergeschichten or SOS , simple soldiers were the focus of the novels. According to the publisher's advertising, the novels heralded "the deeds that German soldiers performed on all fronts for their fatherland."

The design of the Schild books resembles the war library of the German youth produced in the Nazi state .

While in later series such as SOS and Fliegergeschichten the navy and air force were glorified as places of chivalry and, according to editorial estimates, negative war literature appeared in Landser , the Schild-Verlag was still following old ideas. It went so far that in the text of volume three, a novel about a German Foreign Legionnaire, even with almost the same sentences ("... German boy, always protect yourself from such a merciless fate. ...") as before the First World War before the Foreign Legion warned and fought against Bolshevik sabotage troops in another volume in Estonia .

Track list

#	author	actual name	title
01	Erich Kern	Erich Kernmayr	Signals in the swamp
02	H. von Derp	Johannes von der Planitz	The devil is going on in Sudan
03	Erich Kern	Erich Kernmayr	The eerie fort
04	Horst Thate		One tank and five men
05	Andreas Weinberger		The fooling light
06	HE Laturna		Mines off Gaeta
07	Werner Niehaus	Werner Niehaus	Hell dance in the sky
08	Count Anton Bossi Fedrigotti	Anton Bossi Fedrigotti von Ochsenfeld	Why is Bunker 403 silent?
09	Robert Rix		Shots in no man's land
10	Wolfgang Siegfried		Rammed
11	Rudolf Krohne		Pirate trip criss-crossing the seas
12	Hanns von Kunow	Johannes von Kunowski	Wolf the mine dog
13	Will Heilmann		Where is the yellow six?
14th	Claus Katschinski	Claus Katschinski	Comet from the north
15th	Erich Kern	Erich Kernmayr	Home in the fire
16	Claus Katschinski	Claus Katschinski	Question mark around Toulon

Authors

For a number of the authors, activities for Nazi and / or Wehrmacht propaganda can be proven. Before 1945 Andreas Weinberger published a large number of copies in the Franz-Eher-Verlag in the series “Soldiers - Comrades!”. Johannes von Kunowski 1943, published at the instigation of the High Command of the Army: "Eichenlaubträger Leutnant Hein" in the series "Knight Cross Bearer of the Army". The novel "Standschütze Bruggler", written by Count Anton Bossi Fedrigotti, was published in 1943 as a special edition "Wehrmacht edition, not available for the range" in Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag and Paris: Zentrale der Frontbuchhandlung . From 1939 Erich Kernmayr was Head of the Gau Press Office in the Gauleitung Vienna.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norbert Hethke, Peter Skodzik: General German Roman price catalog . New expanded 8th edition. Norbert Hethke Verlag , Schönau 2003, ISBN 3-89207-999-4 , p. 451 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels . Volume 1, The Post-1945 Boom . 2nd revised edition. Dieter von Reeken, Lüneburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-940679-21-5 , p. 278 .
3. ↑ Dirk Wendtorf: Adolescent Wehrmacht Soldiers in Post-War Youth Literature : Victims or Perpetrators? Autobiographical explanations for motivating adolescent soldiers . Peter Lang, 2006, p. 34.
4. ↑ Klaus F. Geiger: War novels in the FRG . Contents and functions (=  studies by the Ludwig Uhland Institute at the University of Tübingen . Volume 35 ). Tübingen Association for Folklore e. V., Tübingen 1974, DNB  750971797 , p. 323 .
5. ^ Jörg Weigand : pseudonyms . A lexicon. 3rd improved and enlarged edition. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft , Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6906-X , p. 535 .
6. ↑ reissued as "Hans" (sic!) V. Kunow: Comrade Wolf, the mine dog, Der Landser # 243, Pabel 1962
7. ↑ Compare the list of rows in the catalog of the German National Library
8. ↑ Compare the list of rows in the catalog of the German National Library
9. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library