Parole der Woche

[2] Herf suggests that the Nazi artist Hans Schweitzer was influential in the establishment of Parole der Woche, which began to publish in October 1937.

[4] An article in Unser Wille und Weg, the internal newsletter of the RPL, stated in June 1936: Parole der Woche must not be absent anywhere!

It presents the unified words published by the Reich Propaganda Directorate that refer to the most important prevailing political events ... Parole der Woche must penetrate every last community in the nation.

[9] On the day before the German declaration of war against the United States, Parole der Woche published an issue with a chart showing the supposed international Jewish conspiracy which connected Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

[10][11] Herf argues that to Germans who had no other sources of information, "The image and text of the wall newspaper offered a seemingly compelling explanation of how the Jews, so few in number, could have been so successful in plotting against Germany.

[16] In Spring/Summer 1940, the Nazi Party reported that there were 63,121 orders for the poster: 34,635 from the German Labor Front, 10,940 from doctors' organizations, and 5,960 from the owners of bars, restaurants, and similar businesses.