RUSSIAN PRESS AND RADIO CENSORSHIP IN BERLIN

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 2, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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TRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Germany
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SUBJECT Russian Press and Radio Can
Berlin
ORIGIN
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DIST. December 1946
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1. In the 1 October issue of Neue Zett lie vpaaal.an censor out and
changed many passages in t 45-s-f-0-r-y7of Jakob Kaiser's speech at the
3taatso er In Berlin 29 September. The :to. owing passages were
?c c .Waves of applause roared through the hall when reminding the
audience of the whirlpool of National Sr):i. ;listic propaganda storms,
he emphasized the psychological impossibility of again deceiving
our people with such methods, and when, in the light of the elections
in the eastern zone, he rejected every attempt to establish a one-
sided order along Marxist lines,, which. Berlin can afford least of
all.
,,,,,For the honor of our people and for evaluating their decision,
it must be said: this election campai;ri now behind us was fought
with such unequal weapons that it took a full measure of courage
to come out for the Union.
.... ~~ye fight for clean methods even in the face of the danger that
we will be run over by the ruthless me t'.1-lode of political and mora'..
unscrupulousness, fully coi scious .ale ? the -.oraA?its, the drifters,
and. the opportunists,
9kV a know how the el octions in the z ie must be evaluated
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(figures in percentages of voters who had a chance to vote for the
VDU). I feel it my duty to state this fact, because we hardly have
adequate means of publicity for this bawtle.
. 0 6 0 OWe don e t want to argue any more about the fact that an e,z3.er go-
tic attempt was and is being made in Berlin to remodel the
political, social and economic structure one-sidedly according to.
Marxist principles. This is a fact which does not fit very well
with the "conscious will for the unity of Germany" which is
announced loudly and often with defamation of other parties.
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?-...And we know, too that unfortunately we don't have enough
printer'b ink at our disposal. You know) tool that our speakers are
subjected to difficulties upon difficulties.
.....It is very painful for me that after Minister Molotov's state-
ment our worries about the Eastern boundary are no longer to be
aired.
....oIn addition, we have little chance to speak to the people of
Berlin about our plans. Paper and printer's ink are scarce for the
Union. More than one party in Berlin enjoys the support of occupy-
ing pours. We, however, go our way alone. That shall not weaken
our way, it shall strengthen it.
The following changes were made by the censor:
ORIGINAL p_sr__E_
..The strongest applause met his
rejection of state capitalism,
schematic socialism, class war
and dictatorship, which today,
after what we have gone through,
are "reaction"..
..And I go a stop further: with-
out the Marxist law of dictator-
Ship.
. .No establishment of Marxism.
that -is the evident will express-
ed in the recent elections - no
class war, no dictatorship.
It is painful when one hears
the opinion of people who would
like to be oriented one-sidedly
to the W'eWest, who dream of a
sort of U. S. of Europe including
only the West of Germany. That
is real separatism, born of the
most primitive political attt?'
udes and it is a dangerous coun-
terfeiting of the great goal of
the U *S. of Europe. Germany
will fulfill its task as ` the
country of the middle between
East and West.
..The strongest applause not his
rejection of state capitalism,
schematic ;socialism, class war
and dictatorship of the prole-
tariat,
..And I go a step further- with-
out the Marxist law of the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
..No establishment. of Marxism, no
class war, no dictatorship of
the proletariat,
...It is painful when one hears. the
opinion of.people .who would like
.to be oriented one-sidedly to the
West, who dream of a sort of U?S.
of Europe, Germany will fulfill
its task as the land of the mid
dle between East and West.
In articles on the Nuremberg verdicts in Neue Zeit on 1 and 2
October, the following passages were out ov1 " Eie censor:
.....The Soviet General Rudenko in his presentation concerned him-
self thoroughly with this principle and stated that 'according to
the present=day concept, a war of aggression can quite rightly be
considered an international crime. In Nuremberg an unwritten law
was clearly expressed. The mean on the bench of the accused know
that war had been banned by basic security treaties such as the
Kellogg-Briand.pact. They knew that Hitler had given foreign
countries other legal guarantees in order to lull them into sacsstja
In this.connection especially the dcciuion of the verdict will.!be of
basic importance.
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....Actually It was only flitter's closest collaborators who knee
of his plans, who helped him plan and helped to execute the planar
.....The court with strict objectivity has reaffirmed the old
legal rule, dubioo too., in ease of doubt in favor of the
defendant.
*****As far as the "guilty" verdicts are concerned, it may bra 'said
that a German court would have reached the same verdict if It had
had the chance.
The following changes were made by the censor:
ORIGINAL
The accused Schacht, ?apon and o ,The accused Schacht, Paper
Fritzsohe were absolutely not and Fritasche were acquittede
acquitted because of , ailtless -
noesA but because the gu:.lt could
not be proved. so that the court
would have had to declare them
"guilty".
.I,The Decision of the Court ..A Just Court
According to the S ED press was also subjected
to deletions by the Soviet censor in its articles on the Tauremberg
veardict,e. All strong expressions protesting the acquittal of
Schacht, Papers and Fritzsche, were out out. For example,. the word
?6 p8rung" (Indignation) was changed to "Bedenken" (misgivings).
4. The new supervisory officer at Radio Beriih, jor Lebedev, ho has
replaced Capt.., losanov, refused to approve a program of "man-in-the--
street" protests against the acquittals. The program had been re-.
corded by SED radio reporters. Words and phrases used were con-
sidered too strong for * broadenast.
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