Signal. H. wartime picture magazine

Signal was the most widely circulated magazine in europe during the Second World War.
Published under the auspices of the Wehrmacht and supervised by Goebbels’ ministry of propaganda, Signal was distributed in twenty languages throughout occupied europe between 1940 and 1945. Its circulation reached a high point of three million in 1943, most of it outside Germany. Signal was meant for the consumption of the peoples of occupied europe to show them the excellent conditions of life in Germany and the power and might of German armed forces in europe and North Africa. Its design and format have been copied by many european publications since the war, as its treatment of action photographs and its collection of color on the war and the home front in the Third R. are incomparable.
Signal is more than a social document. It is the Third Reich’s view of itself. It represents the finest collection of photographs of the Second World War in europe.
Signal was more than H. Wartime Picture Magazine. It is a living record of the force of N..a.z propaganda in a most persuasive, colorful and highly illustrative format the brutal face of life in the Third Reich and Germany at war.