The Berlin liberal press in exile: A history of the Pariser Tageblatt - Pariser Tageszeitung, 1933 - 1940

»Die ausführliche Darstellung Petersons erlaubt dem Leser so viel Einblick in die Materie, dass er auch zu eigenen Einschätzungen kommen kann. Die Lektüre dieses Buches ist zweifellos für alle am Thema Interessierten ein Gewinn.« __Aufbau Nr. 8 (8.4.1988)__ PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION: BEGINNING AT THE END I. THE CHARACTER AND POLITICS OF LEFT-LIBERAL JOURNALISM IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: A PORTRAIT The Pariser Tageblatt Circle The German Democratic Party and the Left-Liberals The Myth of a Jewish Press Georg Bernhard: The Man, His Politics, and His Profession The Left-Liberal Activists and the Republican Party of Germany The Struggle Between the Liberal and Democratic Weltanschauung The Ullstein Scandal and Its Political Aftermath Berlin’s Liberal Press and the Political Climate after 1929 The Berliner Volkszeitung The Political Immediacy of a United Front The ‘Congress of the Free Word’ The Last Weeks of the Activist Berliner Volkszeitung II. EXILE IN FRANCE The Roads into Exile The Social Demography of Exile in France The First Stirrings of an Emigrant Press in Paris The Founding of the Pariser Tageblatt The Conditions of the German Emigration in France and the Pariser Tageblatt From Kochstraße to Rue de Turbigo III. THE JOURNALIST AS POLITICAL PEDAGOGUE: EDITORIAL POLICY FROM 1933–1938 Elitism, Political Pedagogy, and Liberal Journalism in Emigration Editorial Policy of the Pariser Tageblatt — Pariser Tageszeitung: A Look into the Third Reich The Paper’s Analysis of International Affairs: The Saar Plebiscite An Early Critique of Appeasement The Meaning of the Spanish Republicans’Defeat The Cassandra Syndrome and its Consequences IV. “Emigrants Awake!” the Politics of the Pariser Tageblatt The Political Character of the German Emigration and the Pariser Tageblatt The Kidnapping of Berthold Jacob The Campaign Aimed at ‘Emigrants with Reservations’ The Bourgeois Left and the Creation of a Popular Front Bernhard’s Participation at the Lutetia Conference V. THE DILEMMA OF THE LEFT-LIBERAL JOURNALISTS: The Pariser Tageblatt Affair Differing Judgments on the Style and Purpose of the Pariser Tageblatt The Pre-History of the Pariser Tageblatt Affair The Pariser Tageblatt Affair Journalism: ‘A Component of Active Politics’ The Effect of the Affair on the German Emigration The Investigative Commission of the Association of German Journalists Georg Bernhard’s Role in the Affair The Meaning of the Tageblatt Affair VI. The Pariser Tageblatt Circle Caught in a Political Crossfire The Financial Plight of the Tageszeitung in the Aftermath of the Affair The German Popular Front in 1937 and the Pariser Tageszeitung Caught in the Crossfire Die Zukunft VII. The Last Years of the Pariser Tageszeitung The Tageszeitung’s Coverage of the Anschluß and the Munich Agreement The Dissolution of the Pariser Tageblatt Circle The Publisher Fritz Wolff The Bornstein Approach A Reassessment of the Soviet Union The Demise of the Pariser Tageszeitung CONCLUSION EPILOGUE Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Bibliography Index of Persons The "Pariser Tageblatt" was the newspaper of the German refugee colony in Paris. Its editor, Georg Bernhard, was a Jew, as were the publisher and most of the contributors. Nazi German propaganda characterized the "Tageblatt" as Jewish, liberal, cosmopolitan, and corrupt, and accused it of stirring up hatred for Germany. The "Tageblatt" originated in the Weimar left-liberal press, most of whose journalists fled to France after February 1933. It was founded in December 1933 with the help of Russian and Polish Jews, led by Wladimir Poliakov. By 1934, the initial French welcome had turned to hostility due to antisemitism, the economic crisis, and fear of diplomatic complications. In 1936 Bernhard and his associates took over the paper. The successor of the "Tageblatt, " the "Pariser Tageszeitung, " became enmeshed in political feuds and financial problems, and Bernhard left in 1938. Most of its contributors were interned on the outbreak of war, generally managing to escape to the USA. When the Germans occupied Paris, the archives were sent to Berlin. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

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Walter F. Peterson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 269-282) And Index.