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- Title
THE GERMAN PRESS AFTER V-DAY.
- Authors
Sollmann, William F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on German press after the freedom and refounding of democratic German newspapers, as of December 1, 1944. When German dictator Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, 2,243 of Germany's newspapers were directly connected with political parties. But Nazis could claim only about 100 party newspapers, and, of these, few had a circulation over 10,000. The two Catholic groups with less than half the number of votes, were represented by about six times as many newspapers. The Social Democratic Party, with a little more than half the number of votes, owned outright 148 newspapers and eighteen periodicals. The weakness of the labor press contributed to Hitler's rise in a passive but nevertheless in an important manner. Even under the Emperor and the Weimar Republic, four-fifths of these voters for labor parties subscribed to Nationalist newspapers, because these were cheaper, more sensational, had more news and, above all, appealed to women through more advertisements.
- Subjects
GERMANY; FREEDOM of the press; GERMAN newspapers; NAZIS; NEWSPAPER circulation; HITLER, Adolf, 1889-1945; POLITICAL parties; NATIONALISM in the press
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1944, Vol 8, Issue 4, p537
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/265710