Word: goebbelsism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Hitler Hoppegarten enjoyed a kind of ghostly glory: Goebbels and the bemedaled Göring strutted about the grounds, and Franz von Papen brought the top-hatted diplomatic corps to the betting booths. There were still some good horses. But World War II ended everything. "When the Russians found...
But the committee reckoned without Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones, executive editor of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, onetime head of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a debater at the lawyers' convention. Jones interpreted the proposal as "an out and out press gag." Said he: "If this had come...
In the '20s, as a bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk...
Even before BZ was reborn, it ran into tough opposition from Berlin's other Allied-licensed dailies, most of them closely tied to the political parties. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant "has licensed a pure sensation sheet," cried the pro-Christian Democratic Der Abend. "A sensational...
Now a neo-Nazi outfit called the German Reich Party (DRP) has brazenly entered the lists. Its Führer is handsome Werner Naumann, 43, former chief of staff to Dr. Goebbels, and, by his own account, "the top-ranking Nazi at large." It was he who in 1945 broadcast...