Der Angriff
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Der Angriff was a German language
German language
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 newspaper founded in 1927 by the Berlin
Berlin
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 Gau of the Nazi Party.

The newspaper was set up by Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

, who in 1926 had become the Nazi Party leader (Gauleiter
Gauleiter
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) 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
Julius Lippert (politician)
Julius Lippert was a German politician in the Nazi party.Born in Basel, Switzerland, he became an extreme anti-Semite in his youth after reading the anti-Semitic philosophers Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain...

, 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
Propaganda
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, agitation against the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic
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, and antisemitism, and among many others it regularly attacked Bernhard Weiss, the deputy head of the Berlin police, who was Jewish. For this it was temporarily banned on November 4, 1931 by Albert Grzesinski
Albert Grzesinski
Albert Carl Grzesinski was a German SPD politician and Minister of the Interior of Prussia from 1926 to 1930. Grzesinski was born the illegitimate son of a maid in Berlin and grew up with grandparents...

, 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
Machtergreifung
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 in Germany on January 30, 1933, the importance of the newspaper slowly decreased. When the Allies
Allies of World War II
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 started the bombing campaign against Berlin
Bombing of Berlin
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, 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).

Der Gegen-Angriff: antifaschistische Wochenschrift was published in Prague between 1933 and 1936 (139 weekly issues); and there were also Parisian and Swiss editions.

In the movie Casablanca, a Nazi civilian whom Rick bars from his casino angrily says that he will report the snub to Der Angriff.

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.

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