Title Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer : from inner emigration to the moral reconstruction of West Germany / Volker R. Berghahn

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : Journalists and Freedom of Expression in the Twentieth Century: Clarifying the "Generation of '32" ; Defining "Inner Emigration" ; Three "Inner Emigrants"?: Ernst Jünger, Margret Boveri, and Henri Nannen ; The Structure of Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer -- Paul Sethe: Resistance and Its Post-Hitler Moral and Journalistic Consequences: Family and Academic Training ; Writing for the Ohligser Anzeiger and the Crisis of the Weimar Republic ; Sethe's Politics and Journalism during 1932-1933 ; Maneuvering in the Early Days of the Nazi Regime ; Serving as Editor at Frankfurter Zeitung ; On the Fringes of the Anti- Nazi Resistance ; Flight from Berlin and Early Postwar Search for a New Career ; Founding the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; Tensions over the FAZ's Political Orientation and Freedom of Expression ; Joining Axel Springer's Die Welt ; Sethe's Separation from Springer and Move to Der Stern and Die Zeit -- The Intellectual Journey of Marion Countess Dṉhoff: Preface ; Family Life and Career in Times of Peace and War ; Anti- Nazi Resistance and the July 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler ; Flight to West Germany, Mourning, and Defending the Anti-Nazi Resistance ; Pondering Her Lost Heimat and the Idea of a Reunified Germany ; Marion Dṉhoff's Atlanticism and Its Networks ; Her "Prussian" Values and Critique of the Evolution of Capitalism -- Hans Zehrer's Intellectual Journey from Weimar Berlin to Postwar Hamburg: Struggling with Past and Present, 1923-1966: The Larger Setting of Weimar Politics ; Family Background and Early Career ; Shaping Die Tat into a Major Voice of the Authoritarian Anti-Nazi Right ; The Establishment of the Hitler Regime ; Surviving the Hitler Dictatorship on the North Sea Island of Sylt ; Zehrer's Search for a Postwar Career and Return to Die Welt ; The Springer-Zehrer Interventions in International Politics ; Zehrer's Slow Demise within the Springer Media Empire ; Stille vor dem Sturm as the Sum Total of Zehrer's Weltanschauung -- Hanseatic Journalism and Its Networks: Newspapers and Politics in Early Postwar West Germany ; The Origins of Axel Springer's Press Empire ; Gerd Bucerius: Family Background and Postwar Media and Political Ambitions ; The Acquisition of Der Stern and Die Zeit ; Bucerius and the Transformation of His Two Liberal Weeklies ; Rudolf Augstein's Rise and the Role of Der Spiegel in West German Politics ; The Spiegel Affair and Its Consequences -- Conclusion: Freedom of Expression in the Twentieth and Early Twenty- First Centuries Summary Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, Volker Berghahn focuses on the lives and work of three remarkable individuals: Marion Countess D nhoff, distinguished editor of Die Zeit; Paul Sethe, "the grand old man of West German journalism"; and Hans Zehrer, editor in chief of Die Welt. All born before 1914, Dönhoff, Sethe, and Zehrer witnessed the Weimar Republic's end and opposed Hitler. When the latter seized power in 1933, they were, like their fellow Germans, confronted with the difficult choice of entering exile, becoming part of the active resistance, or joining the Nazi Party. Instead, they followed a fourth path--"inner emigration" - psychologically distancing themselves from the regime, their writing falling into a gray zone between grudging collaboration and active resistance. During the war, Dönhoff and Sethe had links to the 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, while Zehrer remained out of sight on a North Sea island. In the decades after 1945, all three became major figures in the West German media. Berghahn considers how these journalists and those who chose inner emigration interpreted Germany's horrific past and how they helped to morally and politically shape the reconstruction of the country.0With fresh archival materials, Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer sheds essential light on the influential position of the German media in the mid-twentieth century and raises questions about modern journalism that remain topical today Analysis Adolf Hitler Christian morality Cold War Der Mensch in dieser Zeit Frankfurter Zeitung German history German journalism German journalist German media Hamburg Hans Zehrer Holocaust Konrad Adenauer Marion Countess Dönhoff Nazi Party Nazi period Nazi regime Nazism Ohligser Anzeiger und Tageblatt Paul Sethe Stille vor dem Sturm Third Reich Weimar Republic West German journalism West German media West German political culture West Germany World War II active resistance capitalist economy constitutional principles dictatorship free press historical themes inner emigrant international community journalists mid-twentieth century postwar career press freedom press freedoms Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 13, 2018) Subject Journalism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Press and politics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Journalists -- Germany -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism. HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. Journalism Journalists Press and politics Germany Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780691185071 0691185077

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