''SS-Leitheft'' ("SS-lead-booklet") was a
Nazi
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...
periodical from 1934 to 1945.
This "SS-leadership magazine", as it is often called, was published in German in
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
from 1934 onward, and in the beginning mostly circulated among professional officers in the
SS. The publisher was the
SS-Hauptamt
The SS Main Office (; SS-HA) was the central command office of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) in Nazi Germany until 1940.
Formation
The office traces its origins to 1931 when the SS created the SS-Amt to serve as an SS Headquarters staff overseeing ...
, the main office of the
Reichsführer-SS
(, ) was a special title and rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 for the commander of the (SS). ''Reichsführer-SS'' was a title from 1925 to 1933, and from 1934 to 1945 it was the highest Uniforms and insignia of the Schut ...
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German Nazism, Nazi politician and military leader who was the 4th of the (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful p ...
, and the printing was done by M. Müller and Sohn in Berlin.
When war came, with need for new recruits, the SS-Leitheft was also published at the
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 in Norwegian; Copenhagen, Denmark in Danish; Brussels, Belgium in Flemish; and Den Haag, the Netherlands in Dutch. There was also an Estonian edition. The normative texts were usually translated from German, but with more room for national diversity as war went on.
Very little is known of the staff work in general, but the writer
Eystein Eggen
Eystein Eggen (5 January 1944 in Oslo – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian writer. Eggen was from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers.
Eggen made his debut with a book about the life and death of general Carl Gustav F ...
has given a detailed description regarding the Leitheft's Norse version, his father being the Norwegian editor-in-chief.
See also
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Das Schwarze Korps
''Das Schwarze Korps'' (; German for "The Black Corps") was the official newspaper of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS). This newspaper was published on Wednesdays and distributed free of charge. All SS members were encouraged to read it. The chief edi ...
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References
External links
German prototype 1940
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Nazi magazines