GERMANY: Goebbels' Mules

German newsorgans which have died of Nazi censorship since Hitler came to power include famed Der Tag and the Vossische Zeitung.

Last week the Realmleader's own news-organ Volkischer Beobachter, which Germans have been buying on the theory that if all they could get was Nazi propaganda they might as well get it from the source, was withering too, had dropped to second place in Berlin circulation behind the Jewish-founded Morgenpost of Ullstein.

If even Adolf Hitler could not make his paper boom, German journalism was close to the rocks. Chiefly to blame, Minister of...

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