Paper Purge

The rat-faced little clubfoot who bosses the German press, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, once remarked that two newspapers are enough for Germany--Adolf Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter (National Observer) and Dr. Goebbels' Angriff (Attack). In such matters Dr. Goebbels is a man of his word. Since January 1933, more than 1,000 non-Nazi German newspapers have been closed or failed under Nazi pressure. At present German newspapers that cannot make a profit competing with the subsidized, official party organs must all close up and release their workers for "more useful duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making guns. Last week another batch of twelve papers went over the dam with an extra loud splash. Among them: the Berliner Tageblatt, once Germany's greatest liberal voice under exiled Editor Theodor Wolff; Kreuz-Zeitung, which Bismarck founded in 1848; the late Chancellor Dollfuss' Neue Freie Presse; the 236-year-old Wiener Zeitung.

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