SD public opinion reports
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The SD public opinion reports, officially Meldungen aus dem Reich ("Reports from the Reich"), were secret reports on public opinion in Nazi Germany prepared by the Security Service (SD) between 1939 and 1944 and distributed to high-ranking Nazi leaders.[1] They are considered one of the most valuable sources on public opinion in Nazi Germany and have been described by historian Randall Bytwerk as "relatively objective as Nazi sources go".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Welch, David (1993). "Manufacturing a Consensus: Nazi Propaganda and the Building of a 'National Community' ( Volksgemeinschaft )". Contemporary European History. 2 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1017/S096077730000028X.
- ^ Bytwerk, Randall L. (2005). "The Argument for Genocide in Nazi Propaganda". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 91 (1): 37–62. doi:10.1080/00335630500157516.
Further reading
[edit]- Kitterman, David Harold (1972). National Diary of German Civilian Life During 1940: the SD Reports (PhD thesis). University of Washington.
- Kulka, Otto Dov; Jäckel, Eberhard (23 November 2010). The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16858-7.
- Unger, Aryeh L. (1965). "The Public Opinion Reports of the Nazi Party". Public Opinion Quarterly. 29 (4): 565. doi:10.1086/267360.