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not told in the past that the removal of Jews
from these institutions must lead to their
collapse or to sterilization. Our press has be-
come a mighty instrument in the service of our
people's self-preservation and contributes to
strengthen the nation (1, p. 734).
On January 1, 1934, Hitler said that control of the
press had been beneficial to the nation's religions. He
said,
The fight against the features which marked the
collapse in religion, in ethics, and in morals
would have been purposeless if we had not raised
the German press from the level of a work of disinte-
gration which often positively was systematic and
had made of it a real institution for the education
of the masses in the best sense of the word (1,
p. 506).
On that same day, Hitler told L. P. Hochner that he
had no desire that the press print only that which was
handed to them. He said that it was no pleasure to read
newspapers when they all used practically the same words.
He said that eventually, German editors would be so
schooled that they would be able to make valuable contri-
butions of their own to the national reconstruction. He
said,
One thing, however, I can assure you; I shall
not tolerate any press whose sole aim is to destroy
what we have undertaken to create. If the attitude
of an editor is that he wishes to oppose his own
interesting view of the world to ours, he must know
that in the same way I shall employ the modern
possibilities provided by the press to fight him
(1, p. 507).
Later that year, in a speech on September 9, Hitler
told how his party took power. He said that legislation
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McConal, Billy Jon. How Hitler Controlled the Press, thesis, May 1982; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504092/m1/23/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .