Akademik

(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 Ber-lin* 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 understand-ing or comprehension (Turner). During the depression* Angriffpreached so-cialization 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 Angriffthe dominant NSDAP daily in northern Germany, but was thwarted in 1930 when the Party s Munich or-ganization began publishing a Berlin edition of the Volkischer Beobachter.* With decreasing success, Angriffcontinued publication until 1935.

   REFERENCES:Hale, Captive Press; Layton, "Volkischer Beobachter"; Lemmons, Goeb-bels; Turner, German Big Business.