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Title: Klaus Kirchner collection
Date (inclusive): 1941-1945
Collection Number: 2011C59
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
German
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: World War II Soviet propaganda broadsides, leaflets and flyers, aimed at German troops and the German population.
source:
Kirchner, Klaus
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2011.
[Identification of item], Klaus Kirchner collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Dr. Klaus Kirchner, a collector of propaganda, is based in Erlangen, Germany. Kirchner created a comprehensively illustrated
set of reference books on World War II leaflets, flyers, pamphlets, and broadsides which was published from 1972 to 2009.
Scope and Content of Collection
The material in this collection is from Klaus Kirchner's "Soviet Central Series." It consists of World War II Soviet propaganda
broadsides, leaflets, and flyers aimed at German troops and the German population. Kirchner wrote the following as an explanatory
note for the collection: "The Soviet Government started to produce and disseminate aerial propaganda leaflets for Germans
on June 22, 1941, the day the German Wehrmacht invaded Russia. The leaflet campaign of the 'Soviet Central Series' continued
to the very last day of World War II, May 8, 1945."
All propaganda pamphlets are numbered; the pamphlet number is placed prominently at the beginning of each entry. Materials
are organized by the same numerical system Kircher used in his published works. Only those numbers listed are found in the
collection.
Kirchner's organizational system, translations, text selection, and notes have retained his original description. A key to
the item descriptions, including number, first words printed, date, size, preservation grade, means of distribution, and description/translation,
begins the container list.
Many of the items are listed or illustrated in Kirchner's books. For more details and reproductions of some "Soviet Central
Series" leaflets, see Kirchner's
Flugblätter aus der UdSSR, Juni-August 1941 (vol. 8),
Flugblätter aus der UdSSR, September-Dezember 1941 (vol. 9), and
Flugblätter aus der UdSSR: Gesamtverzeichnis der strategischen Serie: Bibliographie (vol. 14).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Propaganda, Russian
World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda
Kirchner, Klaus