Der Angriff
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Der Angriff (meaning "The Attack" in English) was a newspaper published by Berlin Gau of NSDAP since 1927.
The newspaper was set up by Joseph Goebbels, since 1926 the Gauleiter of NSDAP in Berlin. The party provided most of the finances needed to run it. Willi Krause (under pen name Peter Hagen) was the first editor-in-chief. His successor was Julius Lippert and since 1935 Goebbels' trusted friend Hans Schwarz van Berk.
Initially published as a weekly, later twice a week it was turned into a daily in November 1940. The content was party propaganda, agitation against Weimar Republic and antisemitism. The newspaper regularly attacked, among others, Bernhard Weiss, the Jewish vice-president of police in Berlin. For this it was temporarily banned on November 4, 1931 by Albert Grzesinski, chief of police in Berlin.
The circulation in 1927 was around 2,000 copies, in 1936 146,694 copies and in 1944 306,000 copies.
After the Nazis seized political power in Germany (January 30, 1933), the importance of the newspaper slowly decreased. When Allies started bombing campaign against Berlin the circulation was increased to keep morale of Berliners up.
[edit] Literature
- Russel Lemmons: "Goebbels and Der Angriff", 1994, ISBN 978-0-8131-1848-2
- Peter Stein: "Die NS-Gaupresse 1925-1933 Forschungsbericht - Quellenkritik - neue Bestandsaufnahme", 1987, ISBN 978-3-598-21299-4
