On the kitsch list
The Reich Ministry of Peoples Enlightenment and Propaganda in turn took decisions on the basis of paragraphs 2 and 4 of the Act on the Protection of National Symbols, which concern the kitschization of national symbols and tasteless products.
Accordingly, by a new decision, once again twenty products have been properly authorized. Included among these are New Years cards with the swastika, Christmas tree decorations with the swastika and a transparent picture of the Reichs Chancellor with a device for its illumination. Also, for the first time, SA and SS figurines are admitted, because they were of good quality and gave the SA and SS a worthy appearance.
In contrast, 49 kitsch objects were put on the banned list. Among them, and similar, are decals with famous German personalities, self-binders with interwoven swastikas, wooden menu stands, sweaters with sewn-on swastikas, children’s aprons with sewn-on swastikas and sewn-on inscriptions of „Heil Hitler“, and suspenders made of elastic with interwoven swastika patterns. Further items placed on the kitsch list include: Coloured prints, which had been printed in a completely asymmetrical manner with a dissimilar, partly disfiguring reproduction of the portraits of the statesmen in attendance of the national assembly in the Garrison Church in Potsdam as well as postcards with a poem „Der Führer“, whereby the name of the Führer was highlighted in perpendicular sequence with red initial letters.
(From: The Frankfurter Zeitung of November 27, 1933)
