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In many ways, the things that happened in the former Nazi Germany after its defeat in World War II are just as important to historians as that which happened during the Third Reich.
Hunger, cold, arrests, war trials and the destruction of much of the old Nazi infrastructure in the old Grossdeutschland were things that happened every day. The booming economy in Germany under the western Allies in the 1950s was a direct result of US and British policies in Germany in the last half of the 1940s.

HEUTE (Today) magazines was an important part of the American effort by the Information Services Branch of the US Army in Occupied Germany to present the German population with a dependable source of information and pictures related to current events in Europe and elsewhere. Each big 10-1/2 x 14 inch, 28 or so page twice-monthly issue was crammed with captioned photographs and a relatively small amount of text, sort of like LIFE magazine without the advertising. Even it were not for the history in each issue of HEUTE, the image content is unique and amazing. Seventy years after publication, examples of HEUTE magazine are virtually impossible to find in any condition. We offer FIVE lots of the rare magazines here.

These magazines contain features, photos and articles about the following: Destruction of the Nazi Ehrentempeln in München (Munich), Victims of Nazi SS Medical Experiments, American Women working in Berlin, the Coal Crisis in England, Japan Today, the New Russian Garrison in Potsdam, Berlin New Hampshire USA, Ballet, Border Zones, Stalingrad, Basketball, Warsaw, Abe Lincoln, the White Rose, Leipzig Fair, Bavarian Glass, St. Nicholas, Masks, Snow.

One picture has been snipped out of one magazine, two pictures snipped out of another and two pages missing from another of the magazines. Nice condition.
$ SOLD $.

These magazines contain features, photos and articles about the following: CARE Packages, Women of Berlin, a German-American Wedding, Berlin at Sunrise, the Dutch Painter who cheated Hermann Göring, Manhattan, Stars & Stripes Newspapers, How Democracy Works, Number 10 Downing Street, Palestine, Repatriation of Jap Soldiers, American Sagas, Prefab Houses, Monte Cassino, Living in Berlin, Ships without Harbors, San Francisco.

A few photos have been cut out but overall nice condition.

$35.00 PLUS $8.00 Media Mail in the USA.

Foreign delivery, please inquire.

These magazines contain features, photos and articles about the following: Displaced Persons Centers, Dachau Concentration Camp, Children at Play in the Ruins of War, a Gigantic Thorak Monument for the Reichsautobahn, the New CARE Packages, New Uses for Old War Materiel, American Songs, London in 1947, Occupation Zone Borders, Giant over the Road Trucks, Finland, Admiral Byrd, Paris in Baden-Baden, Iowa, the Future of Germany, East and West Berlin, American Cartoons, the Death of Sculptor Georg Kolbe.

Three pages missing in one issue. Good condition.
$ SOLD $.

These magazines contain features, photos and articles about the following: the Remains of Operation Overlord, General Clay, Portugal, Motor Racing in Germany, Honorary Aryans (Luftwaffe Feldmarschall Erhard Milch), Disabled German Veterans with Artificial Limbs, Building Cars, New Fashions, Cowboys, April in America, Two Years of Peace, Spring in Germany, Fat in the Diet, Faces of Americans (Der Ami), Volunteer Miners in the Ruhr, the New CARE Packet, Buchenwald Concentration Camp Trials, the Potato Express, Ozark Backwoods, Painter Henry Koerner, Sankt Pauli and the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Weimar.

These magazines contain features, photos and articles about the following:

German POWs returning from Russia, Paris after the War, Arizona, Hannover Trade Fair, United Nations, Scout Jamboree, Rhine River Flooding, Cairo, German Scenes, Air Crossroads at Rhein-Main, Quaker Relief, Photos of Ruined Berlin, etc.

Three pages missing, two covers detached. Good condition.


$25.00 PLUS $8.00 Media Mail in the USA. We will be happy to ship abroad at additional cost. Please inquire.