Der Angriff (meaning The Attack in English) was a newspaper published by Berlin Gau of NSDAP since 1927. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Berlin is the capital city and a state of Germany. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...

The newspaper was set up by Joseph Goebbels, since 1926 the Gauleiter of NSDAP in Berlin. The party provided most of the finances needed to run it. Willi Krause (under pen name Peter Hagen) was the first editor-in-chief. His successor was Julius Lippert and since 1935 Goebbels' trusted friend Hans Schwarz van Berk. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ... A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. ... The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ...

Initially published as a weekly, later twice a week it was turned into a daily in November 1940. The content was party propaganda, agitation against Weimar Republic and antisemitism. The newspaper regularly attacked, among others, Bernhard Weiss, the Jewish vice-president of police in Berlin. For this it was temporarily banned on November 4 1931 by Albert Grzesinski, chief of police in Berlin. Anthem: Das Lied der Deutschen The Länder of Germany during the Weimar Republic, with the Free State of Prussia (Freistaat Preußen) as the largest   Capital Berlin Language(s) German Government Republic President  - 1919-1925 Friedrich Ebert  - 1925-1933 Paul von Hindenburg Chancellor  - 1919 Philipp Scheidemann  - 1933 Adolf Hitler...

The circulation in 1927 was around 2,000 copies, in 1936 146,694 copies and in 1944 306,000 copies.

After Nazis seized political power in Germany (January 30 1933) importance of the newspaper slowly decreased. When Allies started bombing campaign against Berlin the circulation was increased to keep morale of Berliners up. Machtergreifung is a German word meaning seizure of power. ... The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis Powers during the Second World War. ...

Literature

• Russel Lemmons: "Goebbels and Der Angriff", 1994, ISBN 0-8131-1848-4
• Peter Stein: "Die NS-Gaupresse 1925-1933 Forschungsbericht - Quellenkritik - neue Bestandsaufnahme", 1987, ISBN 3-598-21299-2