Word: angriff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove he has a sense of humor, Minister Goebbels' newssheet, Der Angriff, thereupon began a joke contest. First prize...
...lkischer Beobachter: "The Germanophobe Ickes belongs to that group in the Washington Cabinet that . . . seeks to put Roosevelt in the foreground of their dark machinations." Essen National Zeitung: "Ickes . . . official co-sinner of the drug king [Coster-Musica], whose vest is by no means clean!" Dr. Goebbels' Der Angriff (under a photograph of Secretary Ickes slumped, ungainly, in a chair): "THIS IS HERR ICKES. Instead of busying himself with the gigantic corruption scandal at home, which is his duty as Minister of the Interior,† Herr Ickes makes incendiary speeches against Germany...
...Angriff version of Esther was labeled The Tale of a King and His Jewish Girl Friend. It told how King Ahasuerus of Persia was lured into marriage by the Jewess Esther, how she persuaded him to banish the Jew-baiting Vizier Haman, and thus saved the Persian Jews from massacre. Adding details not found in the original, Der Angriff related that the King was later murdered and his kingdom, "infected and poisoned by Jews," finally went to pieces...
Just so none of Der Angriff's readers would miss the contemporary point of this parody-parable, the face of Mme Magda Lupescu, the part-Jewish mistress of Rumania's King Carol, was used to illustrate the article. And to ram it home, next day the Frankfurter Zeitung's comment on Carol's shooting of Rumanian Nazis was concluded with the observation: "At some time, one is inclined to believe, Rumania will see a revolution, perhaps very soon...
...Friends called the publicity "tragic" and, in view of the fact that the Record's Publisher Julius David Stern is a Jew, ''the worst crime in newspaper history." Their concern was justified when, on the day the Quaker delegation reached Berlin, Dr. Goebbels' organ Der Angriff sniggered: "We hope they will make themselves known. . . . Then we will know, you see, when to begin to quake-quake duly before the Quakers...