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been crowned with victory. The German Revolution has
begun!" (5, p. 300).
Few Germans realized the trail of brutality and
terror that would follow and permeate every thread of
their working lives. The essence of what would happen,
however, had been prophetically written nearly a century
earlier by Heinrich Heine, a Jew. He said,
German thunder is truly German; it takes its
time. But it will come, and when it crashes it
will crash as nothing in history crashed before.
The hour will come. A drama will be performed
which will make the French Revolution seem like
a pretty idyll. Never doubt it, the hour will
come (5, p. 292).
The hour had come for the death of many freedoms.
One of the most important freedoms to die was the freedom
of the nation's press. Hitler knew how crucially important
it was to quickly take control of the press. He had used
the press well in obtaining the total power that had now
been handed to him. He had said that the more radical
and inflammatory the Nazi propaganda had been, the more
it had frightened weaklings and hesitant characters and
prevented them from penetrating the primary core of his
organization. He said the propaganda had converted
hundreds of thousands to the Nazi cause, making them to
believe his cause to not only be right but also causing
them to want the Nazi victory (4, p. 586).
Hitler knew he had to initiate immediate steps that
would allow the Third Reich to control the press. He
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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/m1/57/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .