The iron hammer
The Eisenhammer was the Gau newspaper of the NSDAP for the Palatinate (Bavaria) published from 1926 to 1932 in Haardt and Neustadt an der Haardt . The NS-Journal Illustrierter Beobachter , also published from 1926, was initially added as a supplement to the Eisenhammer and at times also bore the title Illustrierte Eisenhammerbeilage .
history
The weekly newspaper with the subtitle Pfälzische Wochenschrift on the struggle for truth and the right to work and bread was founded in March 1926 by NSDAP Gauleiter Josef Bürckel together with Fritz Heß . Bürckel acted as editor, Hess initially took over the editing. He was followed by Heinrich Foerster from May 5, 1926 to November 30, 1932 . In 1927 the subtitle was changed to Kampfblatt der NSDAP Gau Pfalz . In September 1932 the weekly newspaper, which had been supplemented since 1930 by the daily newspaper NSZ Rheinfront , also published by Bürckel , was discontinued.
Content
The newspaper was "radically anti-Semitic , anti-Marxist, anti-Separatist and anti-Catholic" and is compared in literature with Julius Streicher's Stürmer . In lurid reports of disclosure, people involved in the political and economic life of cooperation with the French occupation authorities and of separatism were denounced. The newspaper's publishers and editors were repeatedly convicted of their coverage. The high legal costs and fines at times endangered Bürckel's economic existence.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Siegfried H. Lehningk: A German catastrophe. Verlag Empirische Pädagogik, Landau 2010, ISBN 978-3-941320-40-6 . Pp. 75-78.