Richtlinien Für Die Gesamthaltung Der Deutschen Presse

Abstract

This article is based on a document in the possession of the 'Institut für Publizistik der Westfalischen Wilhelm-Universität' at Munster in West phalia. It contains the directives given to the German press by Josef Goebbels in I934. What he wished to achieve was, on the one hand, to instil a greater measure of sobriety into the triumphant Nazi press, and, on the other hand, to get the non-Nazi papers to assume a more positive point of view with regard to the regime. By doing this, Goebbcls addressed himself directly to the press while ignoring the communication agencies created by himself, viz. the Government Press conferences and the Go vernment Press Chamber.