Description:IntroductionThis collection of newspaper articles and journal articles is named after Joseph Will, a staff member of the "Defwehrstelle" against National Socialist propaganda led by the then cathedral vicar Joseph Teusch. Will, who had been employed at the defensive post since 1935, invested this collection for private purposes. Joseph Will was born on 24 August 1907 in Munich as the son of an editor. He spent his school days in Cologne, where he graduated from the Abendgymnasium in 1929. He then worked as a trainee at the Kölnische Volkszeitung. In addition to his professional training, he was particularly involved in Catholic associations and federations, such as the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB), the Christian Trade Unions, the Peace Federation of German Catholics, and the Unemployment Assistance Organization. He founded the Windhorstbund Köln-Nord around 1930. From 1933 Joseph Will earned his living with a paper and book agency and continued his activities in the Catholic association work, especially in the Catholic youth associations. In 1933/34, Will was detained for up to four weeks on remand for this mission. During this activity he got to know the then cathedral vicar Joseph Teusch, who called him to the "defensive post" in 1935. Here Will helped to set up an archive to record National Socialist literature. The brochures and pamphlets written in the Teusch defence office were distributed by Will, among others. With a car (passenger car) with trailer he transported the writings and often covered up to 800 km per day. When the war broke out, Will moved to the Vicariate General, later to the archbishop's pastoral office. In October 1943 he was drafted for military service. The present collection consists mainly of articles, the national daily newspapers (including Kölnische Zeitung, Kölnische Volkszeitung, Frankfurter Zeitung, Rhein-Mainische Volkszeitung, Vossische Zeitung), the newspapers of Catholic associations and federations (and the German newspaper Kölnische Zeitung, Kölnische Volkszeitung, Frankfurter Zeitung, Rhein-Mainische Volkszeitung, Vossische Zeitung), and the newspapers of the Catholic Church. a. Michael/Junge Front Académie, Westdeutsche Arbeiter-Zeitung) or Catholic monthly publications (e.g. Hochland, Stimmen der Zeit, der Graal, Zeit und Volk, Stimmen der Jugend, Benediktinische Monatsschrift). Depending on the topic, there are also articles from National Socialist newspapers and magazines, for example in folders with topics on Nazi politics, especially domestic politics, and on the relationship of the Nazi state to the Catholic religion and church. The portfolios of the various elections of the years 1930 - 1933 contain extensive propaganda material of all major parties, including election newspapers and illustrations, special issues of party newspapers, leaflets and flyers, as well as flyers. The collection focuses on the 1930s. It goes beyond the year 1940 only sporadically and reaches also only occasionally into the 20's back. The collection remained in its original order of twelve main groups identified by Roman numerals. The old descriptions of the main groups have been taken into account and are highlighted by blocking. In the table of contents, clarifying keywords have been added in brackets (...). The order of the individual folders (with Arabic numerals) within the individual groups also remained the same. The original names of the portfolios were also retained, placed in quotation marks "..." and described more precisely by subject headings. The old signatures, which are often referred to in the portfolios, are enclosed in brackets. For reasons of conservation and storage technology, the portfolios had to be separated into two sizes: the collection with its original 123 portfolios was purchased by the Emmaus disciples in Cologne-Longerich in 1980. They had received the documents on the occasion of the evacuation of Joseph Will's apartment and offered them to the archive for sale. Cologne, June 30, 1986 Dr. KleinertzArticles from daily and weekly newspapers (including Kölnische Zeitung, Kölnische Volkszeitung, Frankfurter Zeitung, Rhein-Mainische Volkszeitung, Vossische Zeitung, Völkischer Beobachter, Arbeiter Zeitung), as well as magazines and periodicals, especially the "Kölnische Zeitung", the "Kölnische Volkszeitung", the "Rhein-Mainische Volkszeitung", the "Vossische Zeitung", the "Völkischer Beobachter" and the "Arbeiter Zeitung". Catholic clubs and associations (e.g. Michael/Junge Front, Academia, Hochland, Stimmen der Zeit, Der Graal, Zeit und Volk), also newspapers of the German Centre Party concerning the conflict between NS-State / Ideology and Catholic Church, e.g. on the topics of state and society, law and justice, Reich reform, school and education, religious education, racial hygiene and anti-Semitism, understanding of history (Germanicism, Christianity, Charlemagne, the Middle Ages), press and church, the law of the editor, moral and foreign exchange processes, Protestantism, the German religious movement and Alfred Rosenberg, Catholic bishops, Catholic associations and societies, philosophy and ideology, art, youth (youth movement, Hitler youth, Catholic youth, youth associations, student body, work service, military sports, Windhorstbunde), women (marriage, eugenics, women's studies, women's work, historical female figures), socialism, liberalism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism, Catholicism Social doctrine, economics, capitalism, agriculture and land reform, war and peace (peace movement, pacifism, First World War, Reichswehr), individual states and countries, Germany (foreign, borderland Germany, Upper Silesia, Memelland, Rhineland, Saarland, South Tyrol, war guilt issue, colonies), Catholic life (Germany, Cologne, World Mission, Catholic Days, personalities); Leaflets and leaflets, election newspapers and flyers on the Reich and Prussian state parliamentary elections (1928-1933), Reich presidential elections (1932).
