Günter d'Alquen (October 24, 1910 - May 15, 1998) was Chief Editor of the SS weekly, Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps), the official SS newspaper. ... The SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers was a German Waffen SS war correspondent formation which reported on the actions of all Waffen SS combat formations, seeing action in all major theatres of war with the exception of North Africa. ...

Günter d'Alquen was born in Essen, the son of a Protestant merchant and reserve officer. After attending secondary school in Essen and joining the Hitler Youth in 1925, d'Alquen entered the NSDAP at the age of seventeen and was an SA man and Youth Leader in the Party between 1927 and 1931. Essen is the name of the following places: Essen, Germany, one of the major cities of the Ruhr area Essen, Lower Saxony, Germany Essen, Belgium Essen, Netherlands German: foot This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Flag of the Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth (German: Hitler-Jugend, abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that existed from 1922 to 1945. ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... SA may stand for: Sturmabteilung (SA, Storm Troopers as in Nazi Germany) Salvation Army San Antonio Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) Seaman Apprentice Second Age of J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth (usually written S.A.) Security Association in the IPsec networking protocol selective availability...

He played an active part in the National Socialist Students' Association and later joined the SS on 10 April 1931, becoming an SS Captain within three years. D'Alquen never completed his university studies, concentrating instead on a journalistic career. In 1932 he joined the staff of the Völkischer Beobachter as a political correspondent, catching the eye of Heinrich Himmler who in March 1935 appointed him editor of the official SS paper, Das Schwarze Korps. One of the last editions of the Völkischer Beobachter (April 20, 1945) hails Adolf Hitler as man of the century on the occasion of his 56th birthday, ten days before his suicide. ... Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ...

As the mouthpiece of revolutionary Nazism and chief spokesman of the SS in the German press, d'Alquen paper frequently attacked intellectuals, students, distinguished scientists, recalcitrant business firms, black marketers, churchmen and other groups or trends in German society which had aroused Himmler's wrath. Apart from its notorious antisemitism and censorious role in national affairs, the paper saw itself as a bastion of German morale during World War II, concentrating its attention on German victories at the front. The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

D'Alquen himself became a prominent SS war reporter after September 1939 and towards the end of the war was appointed by Himmler as head of the Wehrmacht propaganda department. Among his publications were an official history of the SS, Die SS. Geschichte, Aufgabe und Organization der Schutzstaffeln der NSDAP (1939). He also edited Das ist der Sieg (1940) and Waffen - SS im Westen (1941). In July 1955 d'Alquen was fined 60,000 marks by a Berlin Denazification court, deprived of all civic rigths for three years and debarred from drawing an allowance or pension from public funds. Denazification (German: Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary and politics of any remnants of the Nazi regime. ...

He was found guilty of having played an important role in the Third Reich, of war propaganda, incitement against the churches, the Jews and foreign countries, and incitement to murder. He had glorified the SS State and Hitler's infallibility brought democracy into contempt and encouraged anti-Semitism. After a further investigation into his earnings from Nazi propaganda, d'Alquen was fined another 28,000 marks by the Berlin Denazification court on 7 January 1958. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility towards Jews (not: Semites - see the Misnomer section further on). ...

Following his trial, he became a war trophy and was moved from allied prison to allied prison. He was never allowed to publish his writings after returning to Germany, although he denied to his death actual knowledge of any genocide plans.

See Also

• Das Schwarze Korps
• SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers