Our fighter pilots (magazine series)

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Our fighter pilots , subtitled Your life and their achievements in individual representations , was a Nazi propagandistic penny booklet series about well-known fighter pilots of the German Air Force , which can be classified as trivial literature , which was published during the Second World War .

description

The series of magazines, our fighter pilots , appeared in 1943 and was published by the general of the fighter pilots on behalf of Hermann Göring . The individual issues had a size of 48 to 64 pages and contained several photo pages. The title page was kept very simple. The series appeared in the Hanns Arens publishing house in Berlin / Herrlingen , which was actually founded for the publication of literary editions of letters and sources . In addition to relevant journalists and war reporters - including the later theater director Kurt Hübner and the later ZDF director Karl Holzamer - the authors of the individual issues were also authors related to aviation, such as Franz Ludwig Neher and Adalbert Norden (di Adalbert Schultz, 1901–1986) the well-known writers Friedrich Griese and Walter von Molo . The authorship of the South African professor and “air force psychologist ” Paul Robert Skawran (1900–1986) is striking .

List of published booklets

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinz J. Galle: Groschenhefte. The history of German trivial literature. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1988, pp. 137, 187.
  2. ↑ a b List of the individual issues in: Friedrich Griese: Oesau (Our fighter pilots; 2), Berlin / Herrlingen 1943, inside back cover.
  3. ↑ Issue 6.
  4. ↑ Issue 18.
  5. ↑ Issues 3, 4, 8, 16, 27, 32, 33, 36 & 38.
  6. ↑ Issues 1 & 9.
  7. ↑ Issue 2.
  8. ↑ Issue 17.
  9. ↑ Issue 14 & 21.
  10. ↑ cf. Heinz J. Galle: Groschenhefte. The history of German trivial literature. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1988, p. 137.