Der Landser
German fiction magazine
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::summary German fiction magazine ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Der Landser |
| image | Der_Landser_by_Franz_Kurowski.jpg |
| caption | Der Landser work by Franz Kurowski. His narratives in this series appeared under his own name and under pseudonyms Karl Kollatz and Karl Alman. |
| editor | |
| authors | Paul Carell |
Franz Kurowski | | country | West Germany | | language | German | | genre | War story—fiction | | publisher | , a subsidiary of Bauer Media Group | | release_date | 1954 to 2013 | | media_type | Print | | oclc | 313406814 | ::
| name = Der Landser | title_orig = | image = Der_Landser_by_Franz_Kurowski.jpg | caption = Der Landser work by Franz Kurowski. His narratives in this series appeared under his own name and under pseudonyms Karl Kollatz and Karl Alman. | editor = | authors = Paul Carell
Franz Kurowski | cover_artist = | country = West Germany | language = German | series = | genre = War story—fiction | publisher = , a subsidiary of Bauer Media Group | release_date = 1954 to 2013 | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | oclc = 313406814 | preceded_by = | followed_by = Der Landser (literally private, common soldier) was a West German pulp magazine published by Pabel-Moewig and featuring mostly stories in World War II settings. The magazine was founded in 1954
History
The magazine asserted that its war stories were true and that their underlying message was one of peace. In fact many of their stories came with disclaimer reminding the reader of the horrors of war. Critics, however, dismissed such claims as pure lip service to avoid getting indexed by West Germany's Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons which started to index several of their editions in the 1950s.
The publisher of the magazine was Pabel Moewig, a subsidiary of Bauer Media Group.
Criticism
From its founding, the magazine was criticized for glorifying war and delivering a distorted image of the Wehrmacht and Nazi Germany during World War II. The content of novels was accurate regarding minor technical details, but its descriptions were often not authentic and withheld important contextual information from the reader. Antisemitism, German war crimes, the repressive nature of the German government, and the causes of the war were not mentioned. Germany's leading news magazine Der Spiegel described Der Landser once as the expert journal for the whitewashing of the Wehrmacht ("Fachorgan für die Verklärung der Wehrmacht").
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References
- Jack Ewing. (13 September 2013). "German Magazine Said to Glorify Nazis Will End". The New York Times.
- Corinna Bochmann: ''[http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bmfsfj/generator/bpjm/redaktion/PDF-Anlagen/bpjm-aktuell-jugendgefaehrdende-medien-im-rechtsextremismus-aus-sicht-der-bpjm-aus-02-06,property=pdf,bereich=bpjm,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf Jugendgefährdende Medien im Rechtsextremismus aus Sicht der BPJM (PDF)]''. S.1. Jahrestagung 2006.
- Torben Fischer, Matthias N. Lorenz: ''Lexikon der "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in Deutschland: Debatten- und Diskursgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus nach 1945''. transcript Verlag 2007, {{ISBN. 978-3-89942-773-8, p. 116 ({{Google books. 1-nQ4CzC95YC. online copy
- [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-7955989.html?name=Kampferprobte+Verb%26auml%3Bnde ''Kampferprobte Verbände'']. In DER SPIEGEL 32/1998 3 August 1998, p. 28
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