DER ANGRIFF

DER ANGRIFF (Attack); a weekly (later daily) Nazi newspaper,* founded in 1927 by Joseph Goebbels.* Intending to compete with Gregor Strasser's* Berliner Arbeiter-Zeitung, Goebbels published Angriff on Monday, when Berlin* dailies typically did not appear. Until Hitler's* appointment as Chancellor, it often embodied a leftist view on economics. In 1928, for example, Goebbels wrote: ‘‘The worker in the capitalist state is—that is his great misfortune—no longer a lively human being, no longer a creator, no longer a shaper of things. He has become a machine. A number, a gear in a factory devoid of understanding or comprehension'' (Turner). During the depression* Angriff preached socialization of large firms and profit sharing for workers; with limited success, it attempted to win Berlin's industrial workers to the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization.* Goebbels aimed to make Angriff the dominant NSDAP daily in northern Germany, but was thwarted in 1930 when the Party's Munich organization began publishing a Berlin edition of the Vo¨lkischer Beobachter.* With decreasing success, Angriff continued publication until 1935.