| Photography Encyclopedia: Signal |
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
