There are 24 issues here, across 1941-1944. The content is Third Reich propaganda, but includes items on civilian films of the time, home life, advertisements, Knight’s Cross recipients, and cartoons.
There are informative articles on duties of specialists and photos and action drawings of front-line events.
Items describe activities by fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, training, air-sea rescue, flak, ground actions, paratroops, bomb damage teams and rest homes.
The magazines comprise a window into Germany and the Luftwaffe of the times.
The paper used is that of the 1940s and now is brittle and showing its age.
Some pages are torn.
These will be sold as one batch, price $1,200.00.
Post-free within Australia, by registered post.
Der Adler list of dates:
1941
- 6 May
- 3 June
- 29 July
- 26 August
- ??
- 7 October
- 25 November
- 16 December
- 30 December.
1942
- 16 June
- 1 December
- 15 December.
1943
- 24 August
- 21 September
- 5 October
- 2 November
- 16 November
- 14 December.
1944
- 11 January
- 6 February
- 22 February
- 4 April
- 13 June
- 5 September.
Examples of content.
6 May 1941
Cover:
Drawing of Stuka attack on Belgrade
Content:
- Photos and drawings of the campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece (5 pages)
- Photos from a Storch during an advance
- ‘Bombs on Belgrade’
- Bulgarian flyers
- Article on the African campaign
- Reconnaissance photos of Suez, airfields, the canal, etc
- ‘The quick cannon of Abbeville’, article on flak battery there – 88mm
- Article on cheery Luftwaffe ground crews in supply role and repairing an airfield
- Air recon photo of Benghazi
- Photo essay on a Luftwaffe diver
- Photo essay on recruit training ‘It’s so great to be a soldier’
- Delivery of a he111 before it flies on operations
- Full-page ad: Cologne ford trucks
- Four cartoons
- Article on soldier’s slang
- Photo of Hanna Reitsch after the award of the Iron Cross 2nd Class
- Full-page ad: Ju87 and Ju88
- Cartoon, cross-word, small items
- Full-page ad: Gossen light-meters for photography
- Photo essay, at a Luftwaffe junior ranks rest hostel.
15 December 1942
Cover:
Ofw Klopper, Knight’s Cross holder, showing three fingers to indicate three victories in a single flight; with JG 51.
Content:
- Photos and article on JG Molders – 3 pages
- Sinking a British oil tanker by bombing
- Recon with the FW189 – drawings
- Photos – fun and games at an airfield
- Photo essay on air-sea rescue
- Photo essay ‘Before the first operational flight’ showing Dornier 215/217 crews and aircraft
- Knight’s Cross winners – 13
- Article on Ireland
- Article on Me110 ‘Destroyer’ exploits, drawings
- (page missing)
- Photo essay, mountain climbing
- Photo essay on German culture
- Photo essay, producing fine porcelain
- Photo essay, Berlin dance troupe performs for the wounded
- Full page ad for Junkers
- Half-page ad for Arado AR196
- Continuation of the ‘Destroyer’ article
- Full-page ad for E Merck supporting health in peace and war
- Article on a bomber unit that had flown 5,000 sorties in He111s
- Half-page ad for Pelikan typing paper
- Four ads: Nordland windscreens; Perutz Film; BWM steel; Mauser aircraft cannon
- Four ads: mimosa film gear; Boninger tobacco; Citrovanille medication; Sparkassen
- Continuation on culture article
- Half-page ad: Togal tabletsfor illnesses
- Four ads: Khasana medications; Kaliklora toothpaste; Efasit foot powder; Formamint for coughs, etc in crowds
- Crossword and puzzles
- Ads: Agfa film; Bayer medications
- 7 cartoons on back
5 September 1944
Cover:
Tailgunner in He177 closing his canopy
Content:
- Anti-aircraft action in the north Sea
- Exploding bombs after an air-raid
- Examining a crashed British Horsa glider
- Camouflage on an airfield working detail
- Two new Luftwaffe aircraft: He177 and Me210
- Knight’s Cross winners (13 in all)
- Future of the petrol engine at high speeds
- Plight of the population in northern France
- People’s labour in defence of the Reich borders digging trenches
- Use of radium in medicine
- Examples of works of German artists
- Review of a play about Samurai
- Review of a film about WW1
- Paratroops in action against the British (story with drawing)
- Ads for Seibel 204 and 25 years of production by Junkers
- ‘Giovanni drives bombs for the Germans’ story/photo
- Ads: Bessapan film, Schwarz propellors, Ford and Agfa photos, metal protection in aero engines, Leitz lenses, BMW motors, wheels and trucks, Henkel chemistry products
- Photo of actress Lizzi Waldmuller, crosswords and puzzles
- Ads for shoe leather, hair hygiene, Pelikan typrewriter ribbons, ‘T3’ drink, band-aid equivalent, suntan cream, tooth-paste, health tablets, manuals on technical matters, foot-powder, Mauser, paper, engineer drawing tables, wound bandages, E Merck chemicals, Henschel binoculars
- Photo essay on net-fishing in a lake
