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Signal (1940-5), German fortnightly propaganda magazine published in twenty languages, for occupied and neutral countries, by the Foreign Bureau of the Wehrmacht. With a circulation of c.2.5 million (including 800, 000 in France alone), it was notable for exceptionally high- quality monochrome and colour graphics and photographs. Editorial coverage included cultural topics as well as politics and the war, and German photographic firms were strongly represented in the advertisements. Leading contributors, including Harald Lechenperg (1904-94), Hilmar Pabel (1910-2000), and Hanns Hubmann (1910-96), later joined the West German journal Quick, and Signal itself was a significant influence on post-war magazine production.

— Robin Lenman

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Signal was a magazine published by the German Wehrmacht from 1940 through 1945.

Signal was a modern, glossy, illustrated photo journal and government propaganda tool, patterned after the American LIFE magazine and meant specifically for audiences in neutral, allied, and occupied countries. It was available in the United States in English until 1942. A German edition was distributed in Switzerland and to various other countries with a strong German military presence, but Signal was never distributed in Germany proper. Signal was published fortnightly in as many as 25 editions and 30 languages, and at its height had a circulation of 2,500,000 copies. The last number was 6/45, only known in one sample from the Swedish edition. [1]

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