National Gazette
The Nationalblatt was a propaganda newspaper of the NSDAP founded in 1930 by Robert Ley , the Gauleiter of Gaus Rheinland-Süd and later head of the German Labor Front . After Adolf Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933 , it was increasingly also a subtle instrument of rule of the NSDAP with the party official title "Nationalblatt - Official daily newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and all authorities in the Koblenz district".
history
From the point of view of the distribution area, the national newspaper was a regional newspaper. It appeared in the three local editions "Koblenzer Nationalblatt", "Trier Nationalblatt" and "Westwacht" for the Birkenfeld area . All local editions were edited, set and printed in Koblenz . The distribution area roughly coincides with the National Socialist Gau Koblenz-Trier established in 1931 by order of Hitler (from 1941 Gau Moselland). The first edition appeared on June 2, 1930. The last emergency editions were printed at the end of the war in the winter of 1944/45. From 1930 to 1945 well over three thousand consecutive newspaper editions were printed. “Since September 1933, the paper has called itself the only official organ of all authorities with the largest circulation of all newspapers on the Middle Rhine .” The paper “informed” up to 130,000 subscribers and buyers, and these were not just party members.
The editorial and printing works of the paper were initially located in an old town house on Mehlgasse. After the seizure of power, the headquarters were moved to Schloßstraße, where the Rhein-Zeitung was later housed. The National Socialist Gauleitung was located in the same building complex. Competing Koblenz newspapers were either discontinued or brought into line and integrated into the national paper: The Koblenzer Volkszeitung was taken over by the National Socialist central company Phönix in 1936, brought into line and completely discontinued in 1941. The Koblenzer General-Anzeiger was compulsorily incorporated into the Koblenzer Nationalblatt in 1943. The head of the Krabbenschen Buchdruckerei , which published the Koblenzer General-Anzeiger, had already committed suicide in 1935 under pressure from the Nazi regime.
content
At the forefront of the National Gazette was reporting on National Socialist “big” politics and world events in accordance with the guidelines and instructions given by the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels . The reporting on regional and local events was also shaped by the National Socialist tenor, even if the readers received important information for them about the home and local parts. These parts of the newspaper liked to read serial stories, film and book reviews, especially the local business and family advertisements as well as the sports section by young men. In addition, as an instrument of rule, this newspaper raised the mood against those who deviated from National Socialist ideology, denounced (also by name) fellow citizens who were not loyal to the line, and incited against ethnic groups. The means ranged from a benevolent warning to proscription, e.g. B. the publication of the notorious list of Jews.
Rating
The Koblenz press organ “Nationalblatt” “was a well-functioning little cog in the big gears of the NSDAP and its rulers“ brought into line ”, i. H. directed and controlled, and finally to a large extent also obsessed German press and media. "
literature
- Hans Bellinghausen jun. (Ed.): 2000 years Koblenz. History of the city on the Rhine and Moselle. Boppard 1973. ISBN 3-7646-1571-0 , page 319, chapter "Koblenz and the National Socialist Regime", there a short treatise on the "Nationalblatt"
- Bernd Schmeißer, Also a Chapter of Koblenz History, The "National Gazette" as a guardian and mirror of the directed culture industry in the National Socialist era, A Documentation, Koblenz 2013, in: Bernd Schmeißer: Also a Chapter of Koblenz History and some others, Koblenz 2013, page 3– 143
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Individual evidence
- ↑ title according to the edition of 21./22. March 1942, quoted from Bernd Schmeißer 2013, page 11
- ↑ That's why the name "Koblenzer Nationalblatt" sometimes also stands for the "Nationalblatt" as a whole.
- ↑ Information from: Bernd Schmeißer, Koblenz 2013
- ^ To: Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz
- ↑ cf. Bellinghausen, 1973, page 319, chapter "Koblenz and the National Socialist Regime"
- ↑ See e.g. B. the article of the National Gazette of 27./28. July 1935: “Jewish, all-too-Jewish - From Jewish work on the Rhine and Moselle” - In the Rhineland, the decomposers of Germanness can be traced back to the 4th century AD. [...]; printed in Bernd Schmeißer, 2013, page 27
- ↑ cf. Bernd Schmeißer, 2013, page 12
- ↑ Bernd Schmeißer, 2013, page 13