The decimation of newspapers. Thus Hitler silenced the German Jewish press

The signatures disliked by the new government disappeared from one day to the next. Unwelcome directors were replaced. Many publishers had sniffed the air ahead of time, had adapted without even being asked: they were liquidated all the same

The signatures disliked by the new government disappeared from one day to the next. Unwelcome directors were replaced. They had completely taken over radio from day one. The newsrooms emptied. Many newspaper editors had sniffed the air prematurely. They had complied without even being asked. When they were asked, indeed they were forced, there was nothing more they could do. The owners of some of the most prestigious newspapers, veritable monuments to freedom of the press, were families of Jewish origin. They were the most diligent in firing Jewish journalists, either in the odor of the left, or too freethere, or who, for one reason or another, annoyed the Nazis. They weren't rewarded for compliance. Neither the directors who hoped to be reappointed by jumping on the bandwagon, nor the owners who hoped that the new power would leave them alone. The newspapers were taken away from him anyway. They lost their company, their job, their money, their country, but also their credibility and honour.