Offered for sale are
12 BOUND 1940/41 ISSUES OF THE CONFIDENTIAL OFFICIAL PERIODICALS FOR NSDAP LEADER
‘DER HOHEITSTRÄGER’
(THE BEARER OF SOVEREIGNTY)
ITS DISTRIBUTION WAS STRICTLY LIMITED TO A SPECIFIC GROUP OF NAZI OFFICIALS
Offered here are twelve (12) 1940-1941 issues of the very hard to find confidential NSDAP leader periodical “Der Hoheitsträger” in very good condition, bound in the original publisher’s binding.
A specific privileged group of the political leaders within the leadership corps of the Nazi party possessed a higher degree of responsibility than others, were vested with special prerogatives, and constituted a distinctive and elite group. These were the so called “Hoheitsträger” (Bearers of Sovereignty) who represented the Party within their area of jurisdiction, the so called Hoheitsgebiet. In the NSDAP manual, the Hoheitsträger is explained as follows:
“Among the Political Leaders, the Hoheitsträger assumed a special position. Contrary to the other Political Leaders who have departmental missions, the Hoheitsträger themselves are in charge of a geographical sector known as the Hoheitsgebiet (Sector of Sovereignty). Hoheitsträger are: the Führer, the Gauleiter, the Kreisleiter, the Ortsgruppenleiter, the Zellenleiter and the Blockleiter. Accordingly, their sectors of sovereignty are: the Reich, the Gau, the Kreis, the Ortsgruppe, the Zelle and the Block. Within their sector of sovereignty, the Hoheitsträger have sovereign political rights. They represent the Party within their sector. The Hoheitsträger supervise all Party Officers within their jurisdiction and are responsible for the maintenance of discipline. The directors of offices, etc., and of the affiliated organizations are responsible to their respective Hoheitsträger as regards their special missions. The Hoheitsträger are superior to all Political Leaders, managers, etc., within their sector. As regards personal considerations, Hoheitsträger are endowed with special rights. The Hoheitsträger are not to be administrative officials but are to move in a continuous vital contact with the Political Leaders of the population within their sector. The Hoheitsträger are responsible for the proper and good supervision of all members of the nation within their sectors.”
The distinctive character of the Hoheitsträger, and their existence and operation as an identifiable group, are indicated by the publication of a confidential 9×12-3/4 inch periodical, entitled Der Hoheitsträger, whose distribution was strictly limited by regulation of Reichsorganisationsleiter (Reich Organization Leader) Dr. Robert Ley to the Hoheitsträger and certain other designated leaders. The inside cover of this exclusive Nazi Party magazine reads as follows:
“DER HOHEITSTRÄGER, the contents of which is to be handled confidentially, serves only for the orientation of the competent leaders. It may not be loaned out to other persons (followed by a list of the Hoheitsträger and other Political Leaders authorized to receive this publication)”
The periodicals contained anti-Semitic and anti-Freemason articles, attacks on Catholicism and the Christian religion and clergy, the need for motorized armament, the urgent need for expanded Lebensraum and colonies, persistent attacks on the League of Nations, the use of the Block and Cell in achieving favorable votes in Party plebiscites, the association between the Wehrmacht and the political leadership, the racial doctrines of Fascism; the cult of “leadership”; the role of the Gaue, Ortsgruppen, and Zellen in the expansion of Germany, among other related matters.
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