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WESTFRONT-ILLUSTRIERTE Nr. 1-17 + Special Edition
[Original]

 
 
 
 
 
Westfront-Illustrierte
A military magazine for the German troops in France
 
Complete Series Collection
Nr. 1-17 including Special Edition Nr. 7
Nr. 4 (anti semitic content) as individual edition
 
 

Published:

Nr. 1 on October 10.1940 - Nr. 17 - 1941 April 

(always on the 1st, 11th und 21st of each month), 

 

Editer: Propaganada-Company of the Army Von Reichenau

Format: 27,1 x 35,9 cm

Pages: Standard 32 Pg, (Sometime many more pages), 

 

Edition:

The magazine was marked "WI” or sometimes "W-I".

At the top left corner of each cover the Command Flag of the Chief of the Army Group was placed.

 

Content was military, politics, the history of France, jokes, photos, texts written by soldiers etc.  Many of the combat drawings, reports and descriptions of the entertainment was done by soldiers at the front. The magazine gave a good overview of the Western Front and the Atlantic Wall.

 

Edition Nr. 17 (April 1941) was the 112-page edition "Morgen marschieren wir...” (Tomorrow we march). Reichenau’s 6th Armee would soon leave France to take part in the new campaign in the East.