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Ruhr and became attached to Hitler's entourage in 1929
as his personal press advisor. He helped Hitler secure
funds for the party by introducing him to coal and iron
magnates. He was appointed by the Fuhrer as director of
the Reich Press Office of the Nazi Party in 1931. He
controlled every press detail of Hitler's sensational
serial election campaign,during the course of which
Hitler flew 30,000 miles and addressed 10,000,000 Germans
at 200 meetings.
Dietrich was appointed Reich Press Chief of the Nazi
Party on February 28, 1934. A year earlier, Hitler had
appointed him to membership in a select group of reich-
leiters (party cabinet members) that numbered seventeen.
In 1937, he was named state secretary in the Reich
Propaganda Ministry, continuing in that post until 1945.
On December 24, 1932, shortly before Hitler gained total
power, he became a member of the SS. He moved quickly to
the top of this group, attaining the rank of SS
Obergruppenfuehrer, a select group of top SS leaders
headed by Hitler, who was number one. Dietrich was
number twenty-one.
As party press chief, Dietrich controlled the policy
and content of all party publications and newspapers.
He and Max Amann, the business and financial manager,
had complete control over the entire press network of
the Nazi Party.
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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/m1/42/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .