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Neues Volk (German:[ˈnɔʏ.əsˈfɔlk], "NewPeople") was the monthly publication of theOffice of Racial Policy inNazi Germany.[3] Founded byWalter Gross in 1933, it was a mass-market, illustrated magazine.[4] It aimed at a wide audience, achieving a circulation of 300,000.[3] It appeared in physicians' waiting rooms, libraries, and schools, as well as in private homes.[4]
The subject matter of the magazine was the "excellence" of theAryan race and the "deficiencies" ofJews,Poles, and other groups.[3] Articles ranged from profiles ofBenito Mussolini, reports onHitler Youth camps, and travel tips, buteugenic andracial propaganda continued throughout it.[5] The first six issues presented solelyethnic pride, before bringing up any topic on "undesirables”.[6] In the next issue, one article presented the types of the "Criminal Jew" surrounded by images of the ideal Aryan, which generally predominated.[6] Such articles continued, displaying such things as demographic charts showing the decline of farmland (with generous Aryan families) and deploring that the Jews were eradicatingtraditional German peasantry.[6]
Neues Volk included articles defendingeugenic sterilization.[7] Photographs ofmentally incapacitated children were juxtaposed with those of healthy children.[6] It also presented images of ideal Aryan families[8] and ridiculedchildless couples.[9] After the inception of theNuremberg Laws in 1935, it urged that Germans to show no sympathy for Jews and presented articles to show Jewish life still flourishing.[10] By the mid-1930s, it had doubled its pages and greatly increased its discussion of Jews.[11] Other articles described the conditions under which Hitler would be a child's godfather,[12] discussed the importance of giving children Germanic names, answered racial questions from readers—marriage between a Chinese man and a German woman wasimpossible, despite the woman's pregnancy, and they had seen to it that the man's residence permit was revoked, and even an infertile German woman cannot marry ahalf-Jew, but a Dutch woman, if she had neither Jewish nor colored blood, was acceptable—praised German farming in contrast to French, declared art was determined by racial world-views, and many other topics.[3] During the war, it published articles about how theforeign workers were welcome but sexual relations with Germans were prohibited.[3]