Der Angriff
Der Angriff (in English "The Attack") was a German language newspaper founded in 1927 by the Berlin Gau of the NSDAP.
History
The newspaper was set up by Joseph Goebbels, who in 1926 had become the National Socialist Party area leader (Gauleiter) in Berlin, and the party provided most of the money needed to ensure publication. Wilhelm "Willi" Georg Krause (pseudonym Peter Hagen; 1907–1945), using the pen name Peter Hagen, was its first editor-in-chief. He was succeeded first by Julius Lippert, and next, from 1935, by Goebbels' trusted friend Hans Schwarz van Berk (1902–1973).
At first appearing once a week, and later twice a week, in November 1930 Der Angriff became a daily newspaper. It contained principally party propaganda, agitation against the Weimar Republic, and antisemitism, and among many others it regularly attacked Bernhard Weiss, the deputy head of the Berlin police, who was Jewish. [1] For this it was temporarily banned on November 4, 1931 by Albert Grzesinski, Berlin's chief of police.
In 1927 the circulation was around 2,000, reaching 146,694 by 1936 and 306,000 by 1944. It was still being published in February 1945.
After the National Soclists gained political power in Germany on January 30, 1933, the importance of the newspaper slowly decreased. When the Allies started the bombing campaign against Berlin, the circulation was increased to keep the morale of Berliners up.
