Hilf Mit! - Third Reich Newspaper for Nazi School Children

Hilf Mit! - Third Reich Newspaper for Nazi School Children
Single desirable issue! - Hilf Mit! or Help! (Subtitle: Illustrated student newspaper ) was the most important Nazi newspaper for schoolchildren in the Third Reich . It was not a school newspaper by students for students, but a newspaper with educational and propagandistic intentions. Help! was published by the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB). It was published from October 1933 to September 1944, before the start of World War IImonthly, then more irregularly, at longer intervals and was printed by the publishing house HA Braun and Co. in Berlin. The 32-page booklets, 16 pages during the war years, initially cost 10 pfennigs, but were then distributed free of charge. [1] From 1937 Henrich Hansen was the chief editor . The magazine had a circulation of up to five million copies per issue and reached nearly all students aged 10 and over. [2]Help! and other high-circulation newspapers for schoolchildren, such as the Deutsche Jugendburg , made a significant contribution to the ideological influence of the younger generation in the Third Reich. The teachers were asked to distribute this newspaper exclusively. [3] Contrary to its subtitle school newspaper , Help! a magazine and as such not primarily designed for private reading, but rather as a " teaching tool ". [4] To use Help!In order to optimize the students themselves in the classroom beyond the private reading, posters for the classroom were published on some of the topics, which served as a "teaching show sheet". [5]