SS-Leitheft
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SS-Leitheft was a Nazi periodical from 1934 to 1945.
This "SS-leadership magazine", as it is often called, was published in German in Berlin
from 1934 onward, and in the beginning mostly circulated among professional officers in the SS. The publisher was the SS-Hauptamt, the Main Office of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
, and the printing was done by M. Müller and Sohn in Berlin.
When war came, with need for new recruits, the SS-Leitheft was in addition also published at the Germanische Leitstelle
in Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; Brussels, Belgium; and den Haag, the Netherlands; that is to say in Norwegian, Danish, Flemish and Dutch. There even was an Estonian edition. The normative texts were usually translated from German, but with more room for national diversity as war went on.
The periodical's spiritual leader was Dr. Franz Riedweg, a Swiss physician who had joined the SS and become the head of Germanic Volunteer Recruiting, a division of the Berlin Main SS-Office.
Very little is known of the staff work in general, but the writer Eystein Eggen
has given a detailed description regarding the Leitheft's Norse version, his father being the Norwegian editor-in-chief.
This "SS-leadership magazine", as it is often called, was published in German in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
from 1934 onward, and in the beginning mostly circulated among professional officers in the SS. The publisher was the SS-Hauptamt, the Main Office of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...
, and the printing was done by M. Müller and Sohn in Berlin.
When war came, with need for new recruits, the SS-Leitheft was in addition also published at the Germanische Leitstelle
Germanische Leitstelle
During World War II, Germanische Leitstelle was a department of the SS-Hauptamt under the command of Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger . It oversaw the recruitment and propaganda offices for the Waffen SS in Oslo, Copenhagen, Brussels and The Hague....
in Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; Brussels, Belgium; and den Haag, the Netherlands; that is to say in Norwegian, Danish, Flemish and Dutch. There even was an Estonian edition. The normative texts were usually translated from German, but with more room for national diversity as war went on.
The periodical's spiritual leader was Dr. Franz Riedweg, a Swiss physician who had joined the SS and become the head of Germanic Volunteer Recruiting, a division of the Berlin Main SS-Office.
Very little is known of the staff work in general, but the writer Eystein Eggen
Eystein Eggen
Eystein Eggen was a Norwegian writer.As a novelist Eggen made his debut with a story built on the life and death of general Carl Gustav Fleischer, the Norwegian commander in chief at Narvik 1940. Besides a portrait of the writer Agnar Mykle, his late father-in-law, Eggen has written novels with...
has given a detailed description regarding the Leitheft's Norse version, his father being the Norwegian editor-in-chief.