''Der Adler'' (literally "The Eagle") was a biweekly
Nazi propaganda
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi polici ...
magazine published by the Scherl Verlag, founded by
August Scherl
August Scherl (24 July 1849 – 18 April 1921) was a German newspaper magnate.
Life
August Hugo Friedrich Scherl founded a newspaper and publishing concern on 1 October 1883, which from 1900 carried the name August Scherl Verlag. He was ...
, with the support of the
Luftwaffe High Command. From 1939 to 1944, 146 magazine issues were published in total. Each magazine had 24 to 36 pages, but the amount of pages was reduced to 12 when the fall of
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
was near.
See also
* ''
Signal
In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. Any quantity that can vary over space or time can be used as a signal to share messages between observers. The '' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing' ...
'' - Army equivalent
* ''
Kriegsmarine
The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with th ...
'' - German Navy equivalent
* ''
Die Wehrmacht'' - Covering all the armed services
References
* Sidney L. Mayer, Masama Tokoi (1978): ''Der Adler. Eine Auswahl aus der Illustrierten der Luftwaffe 1939–1944.'' Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch-Verlag. .
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