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Goebbels and the Avus-rennen

Started by duby , Aug 03 2011 18:40

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#1 duby

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 18:40

hellow

read here that Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels was the patronage of the AVUSRENNEN in 1937.

was he at the race ?
is there any photos and Documents about that ?

thanks
duby

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#2 Tim Murray

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 18:52

There's a photo in Hitler's Motor Racing Battles by Eberhard Reuss showing Josef and Magda Goebbels on the Avus podium with Lang and Hühnlein, so he was definitely at the race.

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#3 Vitesse2

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 19:05

Austrian AAZ report:

http://anno.onb.ac.a...m...e=15&zoom=2

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#4 ERault

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 19:45

Vitesse, thank you so much for the link, this looks truly wonderful !

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#5 Vitesse2

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 19:53

Vitesse, thank you so much for the link, this looks truly wonderful !

Yes, more or less a complete run of AAZ, plus some other motoring mags. Sadly, they all cease publication shortly after the Anschluss.

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#6 duby

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 06:16

thank you for all the info

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#7 Paul Parker

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 06:58

hellow

read here that Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels was the patronage of the AVUSRENNEN in 1937.

was he at the race ?
is there any photos and Documents about that ?

thanks
duby

Yes he was and if you can source a copy of the late John Dugdale's fabulous book Great Motor Sport of the Thirties (Wilton House Gentry 1977) you will find coverage of the event and much more of this era. There is/was a copy for sale on Amazon Australia.

Dugdale worked for Autocar magazine in period and his photos were for years held by his friend Karl Ludvigsen but now reside I think with the Collier Collection in Florida.

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#8 duby

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Posted 07 August 2011 - 11:01

Yes he was and if you can source a copy of the late John Dugdale's fabulous book Great Motor Sport of the Thirties (Wilton House Gentry 1977) you will find coverage of the event and much more of this era. There is/was a copy for sale on Amazon Australia.

Dugdale worked for Autocar magazine in period and his photos were for years held by his friend Karl Ludvigsen but now reside I think with the Collier Collection in Florida.

thanks

just made my order for the book !