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For other uses, see Angriff (disambiguation).
Der Angriff (in English "The Attack") was a German language newspaper founded in 1927 by the Berlin Gau of the Nazi Party.
The newspaper was set up by Joseph Goebbels, who in 1926 had become the Nazi Party leader (Gauleiter) in Berlin, and the party provided most of the money needed to ensure publication. Willi Krause, using the pen name Peter Hagen, was its first editor-in-chief. He was succeeded first by Julius Lippert, and next, from 1935, by Goebbels' trusted friend Hans Schwarz van Berk.
At first appearing once a week, and later twice a week, in November 1930, Der Angriff became a daily newspaper. It contained principally party propaganda, agitation against the Weimar Republic, and antisemitism, and among many others it regularly attacked Bernhard Weiss, the deputy head of the Berlin police, who was Jewish. [1] For this it was temporarily banned on November 4, 1931 by Albert Grzesinski, Berlin's chief of police.
In 1927 the circulation was around 2,000, reaching 146,694 by 1936 and 306,000 by 1944. It was still being published in February 1945.
After the Nazis gained political power in Germany on January 30, 1933, the importance of the newspaper slowly decreased. When the Allies started the bombing campaign against Berlin, the circulation was increased to keep the morale of Berliners up.
Related works
Nacht-Angriff was a daily paper also published by Goebbels. Issues in 1932 are described as "6. Jahrgang" (Year 6).[2]
Der Gegen-Angriff: antifaschistische Wochenschrift was published in Prague between 1933 and 1936 (139 weekly issues); and there were also Parisian and Swiss editions.[3]
In the movie Casablanca, a Nazi civilian whom Rick bars from his casino angrily says that he will report the snub to Der Angriff.
Notes
- ^ Joseph Goebbels. "Isidor" (in translation to English). Der Angriff. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/angrif01.htm. "Example: a 1927 essay attacking Weiss."
- ^ Some issues can be found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
- ^ Some issues can be found in the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and Warwick University Library.
Literature
- Russel Lemmons: Goebbels and Der Angriff, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8131-1848-2 (Google Books preview).
- Peter Stein: "Die NS-Gaupresse 1925-1933 Forschungsbericht - Quellenkritik - neue Bestandsaufnahme", 1987, ISBN 978-3-598-21299-4
- Joseph Goebbels: "Der Angriff. Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit" (Der Angriff - Essays from the Time of Struggle), Munich, 1935. Reprint of the essays in book form. Scanned version online.
External links
Categories:- Nazi newspapers
- History of Berlin
- Publications established in 1927
- German newspaper stubs
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