Artwork Collection – Cities and Buildings

Erich Mercker (1891-1973) – Putzig bei Danzig (1943)

Putzig near Danzig (1943)

 

Georg Friederich (1868-1943) – Der Dom zu Köln am Rhein (1940)

The Cologne Cathedral on the Rhine (1940)

 

Will Tschech (1891-1975) – Winter in der Atstadt Düsseldorf (1939)

Winter in the Old Town Dusseldorf (1939)

 

Otto Hamel (1866-1950) – Stephansdom in Wien (1939)

St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna (1939)

 

Otto Hamel (1866-1950) – Prag (1940)

Prague (1940)

 

Cäcilie Graff-Pfaff (1862 - 1939) – Hohenstaufenburg in Italien (1939)

Hohenstaufenburg in Italy (1939)

 

Friedrich Schüz (1874-1954) – Salzburg (1943)

Salzburg (1943)

 

Friedrich Schüz (1874 - 1954) – Danzig - Krantor

Danzig - Crane Gate (1940)

 

Friedrich Schüz (1874 - 1954) – Nürnberg (1939)

Nuremberg (1939)

 

Karl Leipold (1864 - 1943) – Meißen mit der Albrechtsburg (1942)

Meissen with the Albrechtsburg (1942)

 

Karl Walther (1905-1981) – Platz beim Zeughaus Berlin

Place at the Zeughaus Berlin (1940)

 

Cornelius Wagner (1870-1956) – Hamburger Hafen (1938)

Port of Hamburg (1938)

Postcards Collection – Third Reich Christmas Cards – Part III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Landmarks of the Imperial Capital Berlin

The cityscape of the imperial capital is characterised by classical buildings from the past, but also by the enormous buildings of the present and by numerous large squares that connect the many former individual villages that were later merged to form the city of Berlin:

 

1. View across Hermann-Göring-Straße to the Brandenburg Gate (right) and the Reichstag (left).

 

2 The equestrian statue of Frederick the Great, created by Christian Daniel Rauch, stands between the palace of Kaiser Wilhelm I and the university on the street Unter den Linden.

 

3. The street Unter den Linden leads in an easterly direction to the Berlin Palace on the Spree with its 70-metre-high green dome of the palace chapel.

 

4 The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda on Wilhelmplatz. The monument to Lieutenant General Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, a close confidant of Frederick the Great, can be seen in the foreground.

 

5 View from Potsdamer Platz to the south-west corner of the New Reich Chancellery (corner of Hermann-Göring-Straße and Voßstraße).

                                                                                             

6. The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Auguste-Viktoria-Platz with its 113-metre-high main tower.

 

7. The part of the Spree Island to the north-west of the Lustgarten is called Museum Island and is home to the National Gallery with the equestrian statue of Frederick Wilhelm IV in front of it.

 

8. The street Unter den Linden (from left to right): University, Imperial Memorial, Zeughaus, above which rise the domes of Berlin Cathedral.

 

9 The Kaiser Friedrich Museum is located at the north-western tip of the Museum Island. In front of the entrance stands the equestrian statue of Emperor Frederick III created by Rudolf Maison.

 

10. The largest sports and assembly building in the German Reich: the 20,000-capacity Deutschlandhalle at the exhibition centre.

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 577 – 24 September 1941

USSR. Field Marshal General Walter von Brauchitsch visits units in the south of the Eastern Front.

 

– He is talking to officers, in the centre is the Knight’s Cross recipient, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert.

 

– General von Schobert boards a light aircraft with one pilot, returning to the front. (He was killed on 12 September 1941 in Ukraine when his light observation staff plane landed in a Soviet minefield.

 

– He became the first Colonel General to die on the Eastern Front.

 

Field Marshal General Göring arrives at the headquarters of the Army South Command, he is met by Field Marshal General Walter von Brauchitsch.

 

– In the operational department of the headquarters he is shown the materials of aerial photography.

 

– Göring leaves the headquarters, the soldiers greeted him.

 

The northern section of the eastern front.

 

– Massive raid aircraft “Junkers” Ju-87 on Soviet positions near Murmansk.

 

– Bombardment of the bridge and other strategic objects, bomb explosions (view from the air and from the ground).

 

The southern section of the Finnish front.

 

– Finnish troops in the offensive on Viipuri, an old Finnish port in western Karelia.

 

– Forcing the river under artillery fire.

 

– Fighting on the river bank.

 

– Removal of the wire fence.

 

– Shooting anti-tank guns on the Soviet DZOTs.

 

– Soldiers running on the wreckage of the bridge.

 

Street fighting in the city.

 

– The facade of a burning house, a church.

 

– German soldiers defected to move along the streets.

 

– Destruction and fires in the city.

 

– Broken railway station, a sign: Vyborg (Viipuri).

 

– Finnish flag over the building.

 

Military operations in the area of Lake Ladoga, south of Vyborg.

 

– Crossing motorised infantry on a pontoon bridge.

 

– Views of the area, and again fires by order of Stalin.

 

– Movement of German convoys on the roads leading to Leningrad.

 

German torpedo boats in the Gulf of Finland.

 

– Shelling and sinking of a Soviet patrol ship.

 

– Established the location of the Soviet submarine.

 

– Dropping depth bombs, the explosion shakes the water.

 

– The raid of Soviet bombers and bombarding them with anti-aircraft guns.

 

– Shot down Soviet aircraft.

 

– The return of German boats to the base.

 

Military operations near Leningrad.

 

– Massive raid of German bombers on field fortifications.

 

– Shooting at the target from machine guns from the air.

 

– Fire at fuel depots, black smoke covers half the sky.

 

– The loop around Leningrad is steadily tightening.

 

– German troops are moving along the road.

 

– Broken Soviet bunker, broken tanks.

 

– German assault guns and tanks in the village.

 

– German artillery on the platform firing at Soviet positions.

 

– Heavy German tank breaks fences, collapses the wall of the house.

 

– Tanks are travelling on a muddy road, behind a large tank rides tied behind a toy tank.

 

– Fighting on the outskirts of Leningrad.

 

– Artillery hits the Soviet bunkers, the corrector is pointing at targets.

 

– Views of Leningrad and its surroundings from a distance.

 

– Shoot German guns on Peterhof Heights, known since tsarist times.

 

– Hitler’s generals watching the battle.

 

Military operations near Odessa.

 

– The southern section of the front.

 

– Planes over the Black Sea, below can be seen lines of Soviet fortifications.

 

– Pilots bent over the map, the bombs are flying on the road, the fortifications, the railway.

 

– The aircraft over the sea, throwing bombs on Soviet transports, burning ship.

 

The central section of the eastern front.

 

– Fighting in the area of Kiev.

 

– The map shows the scheme of encirclement of the Soviet armies near Kiev, a large ring covering the cities of Roslavl-Kiev-Dnepropetrovsk, this area is compared to the area between the German cities of Stettin-Cologne-Munich.

 

– The encirclement is carried out by the German tank armies of Colonel General Ewald von Kleist and Colonel General Heinz Guderian.

 

– They made the largest encirclement in the history of wars: 5 Soviet armies found themselves in the cauldron near Kiev. On the 26th of September the battle was over.

 

– More than 600 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army were captured.

 

– Fighting in the area of Kremenchug, a Soviet bridgehead 120 kilometres long.

 

– River Dnieper, firing German artillery.

 

– The guns are in the field.

 

– Burning tank camps on the banks of the Dnieper.

 

– Broken port, near the shore is burning Soviet oil tanker.

 

– In the sky huge clouds of smoke and fire.

 

– Soldiers look across the river at the burning city and port, the Germans in the city.

 

– On the streets can be seen abandoned strongholds.

 

After the capture of Kremenchug on the lower reaches of the Dnieper, the divisions of General-Feld Marshal Gerd von Runstedt are advancing in a northerly direction.

 

– The formations of General-Feldmarschall Fedor von Bock are advancing from Gomel to the south.

 

– They are to close the triangle of encirclement of the Soviet armies.

 

– Wooden small houses, impenetrable mud on the roads.

 

– Soldiers pull out of the mud motorbike.

 

Fighting in the area of Chernihiv.

 

– View of Chernihiv on the Desna River.

 

– After difficult battles, the Germans enter the city.

 

– Anti-tank artillery takes positions on the defence of the southern suburbs.

 

– Soldiers dragging guns, resting, eating.

 

– A young soldier, belted with machine gun belts, smiles.

 

– View of a Soviet propaganda poster calling for defence and partisan struggle.

 

– The ruins of the city.

 

– Fighting in the Chernihiv area.

 

– View from the aircraft on the burnt-out hulks of buildings.

 

– Broken Soviet equipment, guns, dead horses.

 

– Wagons are carrying equipment for the German army.

 

– Endless columns of Red Army prisoners.

 

– The eastern outskirts of Chernihiv.

 

– German soldiers sleeping in the trenches during a respite.

 

– Delivery of hot food from the field kitchen directly in the trenches.

 

Artillery shelling of Konotop, the Soviet position on the Desna, flying shells.

 

– Infantry crossing the river.

 

– Assault Konotop.

 

– Forward detachment stopped, the way blocked by fortifications.

 

– Launch of a signal flare for artillery.

 

– Assault battery in action.

 

– The tanks are going.

 

– The fight at the railway Kiev-Moscow.

 

– A soldier throws a grenade in the station house, then it breaks a shell from the gun.

 

– Fighting continues in the village.

 

– The ring around the four Soviet armies closed.

 

– Movement of German troops across the river on a pontoon bridge.

 

– German infantry, boldly and swiftly overcoming fortification barriers.

 

– Fighting for the western suburbs of Kiev.

 

– Artillery shelling of Kiev.

 

– Panoramic aerial shot of Kiev in great detail.

 

– German convoys moving through the streets of Kiev.

 

– German soldiers in Kiev - one of the largest commercial and industrial centres of the Soviet Union.

 

– Residents of the city on the streets.

 

– All kinds of Hitler’s troops in action on the eastern front.

 

– A montage of short shots of all kinds of troops, symbolising the power of the National Socialist army.

The Struggle for Fundamental Values

 

Source: Attack against the National Socialist World-View - by Dieter Schwarz

 

One is often asked these months by foreigners and even by Germans, why National Socialists still speak of the „struggle“ they must wage. National Socialism has, after all, achieved power in an unprecedented manner, held it for years, and Hitler’s leadership is fully affirmed by the people, as election results have shown again and again. Why still „struggle“? What for and against whom?

 

Indeed, the people posing this question would be right, If National Socialism only sought state power. That would have been accomplished by taking over the state apparatus, occupation of the government position, and control of the legislative branch. The political control of all of these functions would have meant the successful conclusion of the struggle. Then National Socialism would have today already achieved its goal.

 

For when 99% of the folk affirm the government, this is without doubt the most splendid inner security that any government can achieve.

 

But National Socialism is a world-view that is based on certain firm and unchanging, fundamental values: these are leadership, following, race, folk, community, nationalism, socialism and Germandom.

 

As a world-view, National Socialism has given itself the goal of not ending its struggle until the German folk and the German state are thoroughly permeated by these fundamental values in every sphere. This means until its whole public and cultural life - art, theater, film, education, sciences, school and family as well as its economic life and professions - and not least the conduct of life by each individual German, receives form from these fundamental values and is lived new each day.

 

Indeed, not because this is „demanded“, not because a party organization watches and not because some party functionary orders it, rather because each German himself deeply believes in these fundamental values of race, leadership, following, Germandom and community, because they are the self-evident moral guidelines for his action and life, and because he no longer wants to or can act otherwise.

 

If we again ask the question whether National Socialism has already achieved the goal of its struggle, then we certainly see at once that we stand at the beginning of this struggle. The rise to power has merely set the groundwork for this struggle. The election of March 29, 1936 has led the Germans into a great community of good intentions. But it will require the tireless efforts of generations before we have transformed the German life reality into this ideal that hovers above us.

We know that in this struggle there will not be two groups. One of them thinks they are already „genuine, finished National Socialists without blemish or blame“. Like Jewish Pharisees they point to themselves and cry out to the others: „Look at us! You must be like us!“ No! Precisely those who claim to belong to the Führer’s core troop will work with the most passionate zeal to achieve these fundamental values in their own life conduct.

 

For the SS this means that each of its men, wherever life finds him - at the lathe or at a desk, in a factory, behind the plough, at the rostrum or in an office -, his political will, his thought and deed, his work and his life are permeated by these National Socialist fundamental values of folk community, socialism, Germandom and race.

 

The huge effort by human will and spiritual discipline necessary for this is obvious. It is no less difficult to prove the hundreds, perhaps not always intentional, misconceptions and misinterpretations, as well as the falsifications of the fundamental values that occur even after 1933 to our very day. This happens to such a degree that it is worthwhile to gather evidence from the abundance of attempts to undermine National Socialist fundamental values.

 

Three different fundamental processes to undermine or falsify a National Socialist fundamental value can be distinguished.

 

First, the harmless occurrence of a mere misunderstanding, even though its frequency blocks many from a deeper understanding of National Socialist intent.

 

Second, more dangerous is the process whereby hundreds of followers of various world-views, perhaps even with good intentions, try to produce „proof¹ that National Socialism has „adopted“ decisive basics from their world-view or that their views had already always been largely in agreement with those of National Socialism. These are followers of various philosophical or scientific teaching’s of the old party-political basics or other political ideas or even of religions or sects of whatever kind.

 

The basic values of folk community or leadership, the idea of the „Reich“ or „socialism“ or „nation“ etc. obtained an interpretation that on the one hand claimed to be National Socialist, but in reality was anything but National Socialist and instead sought to impose other, totally alien, even hostile concepts and goals upon the National Socialist concepts of Reich, leader or race.

 

The meaning of National Socialist fundamental values had been twisted, falsified and „reinterpreted“.

 

The danger of such reinterpretations of National Socialism is all the greater because the fundamental values of the National Socialist world-view are deeply interwoven. One value supports and supplements the other. The sabotage of one value necessarily puts the others in question. For example, a false concept of race undermines the concepts of the Germanic, the Nordic, the folk and the folk community. A false concept of leadership undermines the concepts of following, personality and freedom.

 

Furthermore, Such „also National Socialism“ was and is promoted by people who possess an intellectual agility developed with a long history, with a world-view/philosophical old methodology and an abundance of concept systems from old world-views.

 

3. There was and is a third process that puts the National Socialist world-view in danger.

 

This is the attack against the National Socialist world-view by direct enemies.

 

One must give them credit that they fully recognize the basic situation and act accordingly, They know that - following the defeat of the enemy organizations and parties by National Socialism - the National Socialist state can no longer be effectively attacked with force and means of power. Instead, they must direct their attack against the National Socialist world-view and its value concepts: race, leadership, following, community, national and social, folk and state. They must create doubt, put them down and falsify them as a threat to European spirit, as the beginning of decline and chaos. For these enemies of the National Socialist world-view know that in the final analysis they strike the National Socialist state, because this state rests upon this world-view.

 

And so the hostile circles abroad, emigrants and Jews at their head, went and continue to go to work. They use this method to pursue the spiritual and world-view surrounding of Germany. They translate their newspapers, pamphlets and books against National Socialist „race insanity“, against National Socialist „Führer dictatorship“, against „boundless nationalism“ that dissolves „European solidarity“ etc. into all European languages in order to call all foreign countries to a „crusade“ against this dangerous, National Socialist world-view.

 

It is more regrettable when political Catholicism and even representatives of bourgeois-reactionary science or of Protestant Groups or even of old federations use the same arguments, although more carefully formulated, to help falsify and undermine the National Socialist fundamental values and thereby become the hacks of foreign enemies.