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Hans Fritzsche
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German Nazi official (1900-1953); International Military Tribunal defendant
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Hans Fritzsche (1900–1953) was a German journalist, politician, radio personality, and civil servant. Born in Bochum, he was a member of the Nazi Party and the German National People's Party. He participated in both World War I and World War II. Fritzsche was also a member of the Kyffhäuserbund and spoke German.
His published works include *Die geschichtlichen grundlagen der kantonalen rechte*, *Volkstümliche Rechtspflege*, *Begründung und ausbau der neuzeitlichen rechtspflege des kantons Zürich*, *Zeugen gegen England*, and *Ein deutscher Granzlandkampf im ausgehenden Mittelalter*. Joseph Goebbels is listed as a significant person associated with him. His archives are held at the German Federal Archives.
Fritzsche died of cancer from natural causes in Cologne.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Die geschichtlichen grundlagen der kantonalen rechte
- Volkstümliche Rechtspflege ...
- Begründung und ausbau der neuzeitlichen rechtspflege des kantons Zürich
- Zeugen gegen England
- Ein deutscher Granzlandkampf im ausgehenden Mittelalter
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 36
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,233x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,572x
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Quotes
- “So if despite that, Hitler prepared war, he perpetrated the greatest lie and betrayal in the world. This trial clearly shows that Hitler did just that. I have no hesitation to state very clearly that Hitler was a liar and a betrayer on a mammoth scale. Even without the death of the 5 million extermination camp victims, Hitler would still go down in history as the greatest villain that ever lived.”
- “What I would like to emanate from the darkness of this tragedy is one spark of life. I mean, the realization that crime does not begin when you murder people. Crime begins with propaganda, even if such propaganda is for a good cause. The moment propaganda turns against another nation or against any human being, evil starts. Whereas the Germans started propaganda toward the end of this tragedy, you Allies stand at the beginning of the tragedy.”
- “We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War.”
- “The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.”
- “I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.”
- “I do not by any means want to deny that I and my fellow workers selected news and quotations following a certain tendency. It is the curse of propaganda during war that one works only with black and white. But to my knowledge it is a mistake to believe that in the Propaganda Ministry thousands of little lies were hatched out. If we had lied on a thousand small things, the enemy would have been able to deal with us more easily than was the case.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1900-04-21 ) 21 April 1900, Bochum , Province of Westphalia , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
- Died
- 27 September 1953 (1953-09-27) (aged 53), Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia , West Germany
- Party
- Nazi Party
- Other political affiliations
- German National People's Party
- Spouse
- Hildegard Fritzsche
- Alma mater
- University of Greifswald , Humboldt University of Berlin
- Occupation
- Ministerialdirektor in the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
- Profession
- Journalist, Government Official
- Allegiance
- German Empire
- Branch service
- Imperial German Army
- Years of service
- 1917–1918
- Rank
- Soldat
- Battles wars
- World War I
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
August Franz Anton Hans Fritzsche (21 April 1900 – 27 September 1953) was a German journalist and broadcaster who was the Ministerialdirektor at the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of Nazi Germany. He was the preeminent German broadcaster of his time, as part of efforts to present a more popular and entertaining side of the Nazi regime, and his voice was recognised by the majority of Germans.
After serving in the Imperial German Army in the First World War, Fritzsche joined Alfred Hugenberg's German National People's Party. He began his broadcasting career in 1932, and a year later his agency was incorporated into Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, upon which he also became a member of the Nazi Party. He became head of the ministry's Press Division in 1938, and head of the Radio Division in 1942. Despite his prominence in German radio, Fritzsche played no significant role in the formulation of policy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hans Fritzsche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.