[Information on Nazi Germany (1939)]

The file contains three issues of a typewritten newsletter entitled “Service d’information” and published by Charles Jansen in Strasbourg in 1939 in order to inform the public on the actual situation in Nazi Germany. Written in German, the various issues aim to reveal the contradiction between the economic and social situation in Germany and the official Nazi propaganda. The information is based on anonymous testimonies and observations by German citizens, on official figures and on newspaper articles. Published in July and August 1939, the various issues of “Service d’information” deal with military preparations shortly before the outbreak of World War II, but also with the persecution of Jews and the role of propaganda and war in everyday life. Furthermore, the file also contains the first page of the newspaper “Westfälische Landeszeitung – Rote Erde” published on January 6, 1938.