NDR: Hans Fritzsche: "Ich wollte die Hitler-Legende zerstören"
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Hans Fritzsche
August Franz Anton Hans Fritzsche was a German journalist and broadcaster who was the Ministerialdirektor at the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of Nazi Germany. He was the preeminent German broadcaster of his time, as part of efforts to present a more popular and entertaining side of the Nazi regime, and his voice was recognised by the majority of Germans.
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culture · German Nazi official (1900–1953) · journalist · politician · radio personality · civil servant · newspaper editor · news director · undersecretary · ministerialrat · also Hans Fritzsche, Hans George Fritzsche, Hans Georg Fritzsche, August Franz Anton Hans Fritzsche, Hans Fritsche, Fritzsche
Born 21 April 1900 · Died 27 September 1953 · Q58620
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2024· 2 entries
NDR: Hans Fritzsche über "Schönfärberei" von Kriegsnachrichten
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2013· 1 entry
SPIEGEL: Hans Fritzsche
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1953· 2 entries
Died 1953-09-27.
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“I do not by any means want to deny that I and my fellow workers selected news and quotations following a certain tendency.”
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1938· 1 entry
Fritzsche became head of the Press Division
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1932· 1 entry
And a year later his agency was incorporated into Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, upon which he also became a member of the Nazi Party
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1923· 1 entry
Joined the conservative German National People's Party headed by Alfred Hugenberg and also became a journalist for the Hugenberg Press, which promoted nationalistic opinions not very different from the Nazis
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1917· 1 entry
As a private soldier, and served in Flanders
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-04-21.
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