Neues Volk

Infamous Neues Volk poster, c. 1937: "60,000 ℛℳ is what this person with a hereditary illness costs the Volksgemeinschaft in his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read Neues Volk. The monthly magazine of the Office of Racial Policy of the NSDAP."[1][2]

Neues Volk (German: [ˈnɔʏ.əs ˈfɔlk], "New People") was the monthly publication of the Office of Racial Policy in Nazi Germany.[3] Founded by Walter Gross in 1933, it was a mass-market, illustrated magazine.[4] It aimed at a wide audience, achieving a circulation of 300,000.[3] It appeared in physicians' waiting rooms, libraries, and schools, as well as in private homes.[4]

Dr. Walter Gross wearing a Nazi Party uniform of a Hauptstellenleiter in 1933
  1. ^ "USHMM Artifact Gallery: Poster from Neues Volk". www.ushmm.org.
  2. ^ Robertson, Michael; Ley, Astrid; Light, Edwina (22 October 2019). The First into the Dark: The Nazi Persecution of the Disabled. UTS ePRESS. ISBN 9780648124238 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b "Neues Volk"
  4. ^ a b Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience, p. 117. ISBN 0-674-01172-4.