BROADCASTING IN GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 21636, 3 February 1934, Page 4

BROADCASTING IN GERMANY

THE WAY OF THE NAZI REGIME It was not surprising that the German authorities did not think it necessary to commemorate in the broadcast programmes the tenth anniversary of their broadcasting system, which occurred on October 29. Less than five months after the formation of the Na-tional-Socialist Government over 100 important employees of the broadcasting companies had been “ squeezed out,” summarily dismissed, or imprisoned in internment camps, and their posts given, where convenient, to Nazis.

German broadcasting is now in the service of politics. To quote its chief, Dr Goebbcls. the Minister for “ National Enlightenment and Propaganda,” broadcasting has the duty of helping the Government in its task of “ liberating Germany at home and abroad.” Some idea of- the “ liberation ” at home may be gathered from the facts already given. The comfortable and important sinecures on committees and councils are a thing of the past. The local political supervisory committees—the, , pride of the old system—have disappeared completely. The programpie advisory councils have been retained in modified form, hut the general tendency has been to put German broadcasting and the Gorman broadcasting staffs entirely in the power of the Ministry of Propaganda. — 1 The Times.’