1939 — 1st edition. Large Broadsheet. 6 pages.63x60cm. Large tri-fold broadsheet, six pages of texttotal, single sided, printed on blue paper. In German and English. The Verein für Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen im Ausland,abbreviated VDA, is a German cultural organisation. During the Nazi era it wasengaged in spying across the whole world, using German minorities living inother countries. The American Service Press Sheet issue nr 1, entitled Propaganda against Bluff. Possibly the only issue of this propaganda sheet printed in Berlin. The English and German columns are written by German-Americans who returned to Nazi Germany; overall, the broadsheet attempts to confer a pluralistic legitimacy upon Nazi Germany, by emphasizing that Germans have a special culture and tradition, and thus argues for an American pacifist and potential pro-nazi political line. The English section was written by an unknown author, who states in his editorial Let us be friends!- that he lived in the United States for 12 years, and that American democracy, though the best for its people, is rife with contradictions, as opposed to Nazi Germany, that of a strong state with supposedly no corruption; the author also mentions his thanks for being friends with so many different northern European peoples while living in America, and generally utilizes the discourse of a liberal, anti-discrimination perspective from the new deal era and grafts it onto the German-American experience, allowing the author to produce various subtle lies such as the immense importance of German-Americans to American culture, the overwhelming amount of German-American farmers, etc. The author of the English section only once points out that his enemy is the jew, and only once proclaims himself a national socialist; overall, a very strange and alarming work of propaganda produced in Berlin, custom-tailored for a pro-nazi and gullible liberal pacifist audience alike. Possibly a work of the Intelligence agency of the SS; undoubtedly distributed on the East coast by pro-nazi Germans. Subjects: NASDAP. Anti-semitism. Propaganda. Not listed on OCLC. Edges extremely fragile, upper corner loss on all pages, affecting text. Fair condition. (LB-5-16A)
