Der Landser is a German pulp magazine

Pulp magazine

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 published by Pabel-Moewig and featuring mostly stories in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 settings. The magazine was founded in 1957 by the former Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....

 officer and writer Bertold K. Jochim, who went on to work as its longtime editor in chief until his death in 2002.

The magazine claims that its war novels are true stories and that their underlying message is one of peace. In fact many of their stories come with disclaimer reminding the reader of the horrors of war. Critics however dismissed such claims as pure lip service to avoid getting index

Index

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ed by the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien

Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien

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 which started to index several of their editions in the 50s. Since its founding the magazine has been criticized constantly for glorifying war and delivering a distorted image of the Wehrmacht

Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...

 and Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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 during World War II. The content of novels is accurate regarding minor technical details, but its descriptions are often not authentic and withhold important context information from the reader. No Information on antisemitism, German war crimes, the repressive nature of the German government or the causes of the war is given. Germany's leading news magazine Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel

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has called Der Landser the expert journal for the whitewashing of the Wehrmacht ("Fachorgan für die Verklärung der Wehrmacht").