Der Angriff
The attack was the Berlin NSDAP Gau newspaper and was published from 1927 until the dissolution of the party.
History
The journal was first published on July 4, 1927 Founded and published the newspaper by Joseph Goebbels, Gauleiter of Berlin NSDAP since 1926. ; it was financed in large part by the NSDAP. The shares in the publishing GmbH divided Franz- wedding - Verlag and the Gau Berlin. The editors, that is chief editor of the organ was initially known under the pseudonym Peter Hagen writer and later Empire film dramaturge Willi Krause. His successor was Julius Lippert; he was succeeded on January 1, 1933 Karoly Kampmann, this again in 1935, the journalist and Goebbels 's confidant Hans Schwarz van Berk.
The sheet ( " The German Montagsblatt " Subtitle ) was originally a weekly newspaper appeared, later twice a day twice a week, and since November 1930 as daily newspaper, and from October 1932. It operated mainly Nazi propaganda against the Weimar Republic in general with anti-Semitic and racist content in particular. Was attacked regularly, inter alia, the Jewish deputy chief of Berlin, Bernhard Weiss, which is why the newspaper was temporarily banned on February 4, 1931 by Berlin Police President Albert Grzesinski. For the models of the newspaper was one of the leading editorialist Hugenberg Empire, Friedrich Hussong, who with his anti-republican article series " German Passion" in the Berliner Lokal -Anzeiger sat in the journalistic newspaper incitement of law in the autumn of 1931, new standards and also early fomented anti-Semitic resentment had. But in 1932, Goebbels and Hussong delivered a highly regarded newspaper ideological battle that was part of the successful media campaign of Goebbels to recommend the Nazis as the original right-side alternative to Hugenberg's DNVP. The circulation of the newspaper grew from 2,000 copies in 1927 over 146 694 copies in 1939 up to 306,000 copies in 1944. The editors had its seat since 1932 in the " attack - house", a commercial building on Wilhelmstrasse 106, which no longer exists and its by an information board featured property now belongs to the open-air site of the Topography of Terror. The attack in 1934 moved into the adjacent room 90/91. In this building, which had once been the representative front building of the former market hall III and which still stands today, resided until the war ended the Franz- wedding -Verlag. Expressed a plaque on the wall: " Parts of the propaganda apparatus ( the Nazis ) found themselves with publishing and printing in front building and buildings. "
After the transfer of power on 30 January 1933, the importance of the newspaper picked it up gradually. When Goebbels became minister, he also lost interest in the newspaper. As of October 29, 1933 he was no longer editor. On November 1, 1933, the wedding -Verlag ( Publishing House of the NSDAP ) shares in the publishing of the attack GmbH. As of April 14, 1934 the newspaper appeared in the wedding -Verlag, first as " The National Socialist evening newspaper", then from 1 February 1935 as " The daily newspaper of the German Labor Front." Only in the Battle of Berlin took rest and relevance of the newspaper as a means of steering opinion on the home front to back. One of the famous authors of Johann von Leers was under the pseudonym " M. Thomas ". On 24 April 1945, the journal ceased his appearance.
Reprints
As part of the newspaper witnesses - expenditures in 2009 were individual issues from January reprinted and commented on the content.