Shirer, William L. - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer William L
Author:Shirer, William L. [Shirer, William L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Europe, Germany, History, Germany - History - 1933-1945, World War II, National Socialism, Military, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Germany - Politics and Government - 1933-1945, Austria & Hungary
ISBN: 9780449219775
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1960-01-02T05:00:00+00:00
In Berlin too a foreign observer could watch the way the press, under Goebbels’ expert direction, was swindling the gullible German people. For six years, since the Nazi “co-ordination” of the daily newspapers, which had meant the destruction of a free press, the citizens had been cut off from the truth of what was going on in the world. For a time the Swiss German-language newspapers from Zurich and Basel could be purchased at the leading newsstands in Germany and these presented objective news. But in recent years their sale in the Reich had been either prohibited or limited to a few copies. For Germans who could read English or French, there were occasionally a few copies of the London and Paris journals available, though not enough to reach more than a handful of persons.
“How completely isolated a world the German people live in,” I noted in my diary on August 10, 1939. “A glance at the newspapers yesterday and today reminds you of it.” I had returned to Germany from a brief leave in Washington, New York and Paris, and coming up in the train from my home in Switzerland two days before I had bought a batch of Berlin and Rhineland newspapers. They quickly propelled one back to the cockeyed world of Nazism, which was as unlike the world I had just left as if it had been on another planet. I noted further on August 10, after I had arrived in Berlin:
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