Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
26 (1997) 495-505
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Periodicals
;
Antisemitism in the press
Abstract:
The press in Nazi Germany was legally subordinate to Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda, which issued daily directives on content and style, including instructions to print frequent articles vilifying Jews. Some liberal newspapers, however, were allowed a certain leeway as showcases for Germany. Analyzes the liberal "Frankfurter Zeitung"'s coverage of the assassination of Ernst vom Rath and the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. Without actually violating the directives, the paper played down allegations of a Jewish conspiracy behind the assassination, and indirectly transmitted French opinion sympathetic to Grynszpan's personal motives. On the pogrom it gave more information than was comfortable for the Nazis. Despite these tactics, the newspaper was allowed to function until 1943. Today, opinions differ on whether the paper should have paid the price of serving as a Nazi tool for the sake of being permitted such limited opposition.
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