Journalists Between Hitler And Adenauer: From Inner Emigration To The Moral Reconstruction Of West Germany

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
Introduction: Journalists and Freedom of Expression in the Twentieth Century......Page 12
Clarifying the “Generation of ’32”......Page 17
Defining “Inner Emigration”......Page 20
Three “Inner Emigrants”?: Ernst Jünger, Margret Boveri, and Henri Nannen......Page 22
The Structure of Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer......Page 35
Family and Academic Training......Page 37
Writing for the Ohligser Anzeiger and the Crisis of the Weimar Republic......Page 41
Sethe’s Politics and Journalism during 1932–1933......Page 42
Maneuvering in the Early Days of the Nazi Regime......Page 48
Serving as Editor at Frankfurter Zeitung......Page 56
On the Fringes of the Anti-Nazi Resistance......Page 64
Flight from Berlin and Early Postwar Search for a New Career......Page 68
Founding the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung......Page 72
Tensions over the FAZ’s Political Orientation and Freedom of Expression......Page 77
Joining Axel Springer’s Die Welt......Page 84
Sethe’s Separation from Springer and Move to Der Stern and Die Zeit......Page 88
Preface......Page 96
Family Life and Career in Times of Peace and War......Page 98
Anti-Nazi Resistance and the July 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler......Page 105
Flight to West Germany, Mourning, and Defending the Anti-Nazi Resistance......Page 108
Pondering Her Lost Heimat and the Idea of a Reunified Germany......Page 121
Marion Dönhoff’s Atlanticism and Its Networks......Page 127
Her “Prussian” Values and Critique of the Evolution of Capitalism......Page 131
The Larger Setting of Weimar Politics......Page 140
Family Background and Early Career......Page 143
Shaping Die Tat into a Major Voice of the Authoritarian Anti-Nazi Right......Page 145
The Establishment of the Hitler Regime......Page 154
Surviving the Hitler Dictatorship on the North Sea Island of Sylt......Page 160
Zehrer’s Search for a Postwar Career and Return to Die Welt......Page 166
The Springer-Zehrer Interventions in International Politics......Page 172
Zehrer’s Slow Demise within the Springer Media Empire......Page 176
Stille vor dem Sturm as the Sum Total of Zehrer’s Weltanschauung......Page 181
Newspapers and Politics in Early Postwar West Germany......Page 194
The Origins of Axel Springer’s Press Empire......Page 197
Gerd Bucerius: Family Background and Postwar Media and Political Ambitions......Page 202
The Acquisition of Der Stern and Die Zeit......Page 206
Bucerius and the Transformation of His Two Liberal Weeklies......Page 211
Rudolf Augstein’s Rise and the Role of Der Spiegel in West German Politics......Page 215
The Spiegel Affair and Its Consequences......Page 222
Conclusion: Freedom of Expression in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries......Page 227
Acknowledgments......Page 236
Notes......Page 238
Select Bibliography......Page 278
Index......Page 280