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The murders committed by the Gestapo and the SS
were not stopped until the end of World War II. A list
of the murders for 1933 reads like a play-by-play account
of a football game. They included,
March 9: Landgraf, director of publishing
house; shot when the Volksstimme building was
occupied.
March 11: Hans Saile, circulation manager,
shot when newspaper office was occupied.
March 16: Leon Krell, editor, Berlin, beaten
to death.
July 10: Joseph Niles, journalist; Erfurt,
and Alfred Noll, writers; all three shot by storm
troopers when illegal print press was discovered.
July 14: Franz Braun, editor Volkswacht,
murdered in his cell the day after he was arrested.
July 15: Klara Wagner, reporter, Berlin;
found with her throat cut (6, p. 339).
So death was a common companion to members of the
news media during Hitler's reign. For those who escaped
death there was expulsion from the profession after they
had failed to qualify for membership under the microscopic
examination created by the Nazi regulations. Fritz
Schmidt, who worked in the agency regulating licensing
of journalists, estimated that 1,473 publishers alone
were disqualified (1, p. 120).
Circulation Falls
As Hitler's rules tightened against the country's
newspapers, readers began to cancel subscriptions and
circulation began to fall. The press overlords were not
without a solution to the problem.
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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/m1/82/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .