Deutscher Fichte-Bund

It was founded on 29 January 1914 as the "Reichsbund für Deutschtumsarbeit" (Reich Federation for German Studies) by Heinrich Kessemeier and named after the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a founder of the German Idealist movement.

[1][2] According to a Danish memorandum that existed in the Nuremberg trial against the chief war criminals, the Fichte-Bund was directly subordinate to the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the Third Reich and tried to systematically influence public opinion in favor of the National Socialism.

In 1940 the association also sent “2,278,241 pieces of propaganda material”, which the Foreign Office (Unit D IV) had made available.

In addition, 49,300 daily newspapers and 25,900 kg of material were sent abroad via main distribution points in Hamburg, Vienna, Prague and Biarritz.

For 1940, the source lists a total of 693 transports, mostly of German ships, which brought propaganda material to the countries bordering the Baltic Sea, to Spain, and to occupied France.