Signal. Sonderausgabe der Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung. Deutscher Verlag Berlin, 1940 – 1945.

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1942

The Russian edition was launched in September 1942 and was published about once a month. Accordingly only four issues were produced in 1942.

The first three issues were still very much based on the German version. Starting with number 4/1942, however, the Russian edition began to differ considerably from all other language versions of Signal, consisting chiefly of articles geared toward its specific readership: foreign volunteers and the Ostarbeiter ('Eastern Workers'), forced laborers from the occupied Soviet territories.

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2/1942

3/1942

4/1942

1943

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11-12/1943

1944

By early 1944 the Russian edition had a circulation of approximately 100,000 copies.

With issue number 6/1944 the edition's code was changed from "Rus" to "Ost", probably to reflect the fact that the magazine targeted several groups of non-Russian readers as well. These included foreign volunteer formations such as Cossacks, as well as the Ostarbeiter of which Ukrainians made up the largest portion.

1/1944

2/1944

3/1944

4/1944

5/1944

6/1944

7/1944

8/1944

9/1944

10/1944

11/1944

12/1944

1945

In 1945 the Russian edition began to include a number of 'secondary' languages, again reflecting its other-than-Russian target readership. Apart from Russian, the contents index for issue number 3/1945 was printed in five additional alphabets: Georgian, Tatar, Crimean Tatar (Crimean-Turkish), Armenian, and Azerbaijani (Azeri).

NOTE: The existence of Ost 4/1945 has not been confirmed but is considered likely in view of the monthly frequency.

1/1945

2/1945

3/1945

4/1945