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Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer
Volker R. Berghahn
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
The moral and political role of German journalists before, during, and after the Nazi dictatorship
Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, Volker Berghahn focuses on the lives and work of three remarkable individuals: Marion Countess Dönhoff, distinguished editor of Die Zeit; Paul Sethe, “the grand old man of West German journalism”; and Hans Zehrer, editor in chief of Die Welt.
All born before 1914, Dönhoff, Sethe, and Zehrer witnessed the Weimar Republic’s end and opposed Hitler. When the latter seized power in 1933, they were, like their fellow Germans, confronted with the difficult choice of entering exile, becoming part of the active resistance, or joining the Nazi Party. Instead, they followed a fourth path—“inner emigration”—psychologically distancing themselves from the regime, their writing falling into a gray zone between grudging collaboration and active resistance. During the war, Dönhoff and Sethe had links to the 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, while Zehrer remained out of sight on a North Sea island. In the decades after 1945, all three became major figures in the West German media. Berghahn considers how these journalists and those who chose inner emigration interpreted Germany’s horrific past and how they helped to morally and politically shape the reconstruction of the country.
With fresh archival materials, Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer sheds essential light on the influential position of the German media in the mid-twentieth century and raises questions about modern journalism that remain topical today.
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Journalism, Resistance during World War II, Federal republic, Enabling act, Weimar Republic, German National People's Party, Das Reich (newspaper), Von, Denazification, Willy Brandt, Resistance movement, Politics, Article 48 (Weimar Constitution), East Prussia, Eugen Gerstenmaier, Nazi Germany, Konrad Adenauer, Schutzstaffel, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Nazi seizure of power, Criticism, Internment, Carl Schmitt, Axel Springer, Dictatorship, Writing, German reunification, Birgit, Weimar Constitution, Nazism, Luftwaffe, Claus von Stauffenberg, Gerd Bucerius, Freedom of speech, West Germany, Der Spiegel, Rudolf Augstein, Foreign policy, Jews, Persecution, Ostpolitik, Franz von Papen, Prussia, Nazi Party, Politician, Rapprochement, Newspaper, Bader, Die Zeit, Red Orchestra (espionage), World War II, East Germany, Censorship, Schuster, Adolf Hitler, Soviet Union, Reichswehr, Inner emigration, Germans, Career, Nikita Khrushchev, Wehrmacht, Die Welt, Gestapo, West Berlin, International relations, Authoritarianism, Frankfurter Zeitung, Social democracy, World War I