National kitsch
Audit of the shops in Königsberg
The Königsberg Police Headquarters shared among other things the following:
„In the last few days, the Gau propaganda management of the NSDAP and the responsible clerk of the police headquarters have audited many Königsberg shops to see if they carry items of national kitsch. In the process, many items were discovered on which symbols of the German state and its national uprising were appropriated in a form that violated the sense of dignity of these symbols. Among other things, the following items were discovered: ashtrays with swastikas; children’s balls with swastikas; pencils with the Horst Wessel song; stationary with the swastika flags and imprinted swastikas; wallets with the insignia of the NSDAP; a cigarette case (silver) with the black-white-red flag and swastika; children’s stockings with a swastika band on the upper trim; cushions with the insignia of the NSDAP; liquorice sticks with swastikas or with a black-white-red flag; cufflinks (silver) with a reduced size swastika flag; paper napkins with a swastika and a black-white-red flag; chocolate wrappers with „Heil-Hitler“ and a picture of the Reich Chancellor; tobacco packages with marching SS men.“
