THE GERMAN PRESS CHAMBER.

The purpose of this present article is neither to attack nor to vindicate press control, but to furnish a systematic presentation of the ideology and mechanism of such regulation as developed by the German National Socialist Workers Party in Germany. In a totalitarian state the press bears a relation to the life of the people different from that in countries where other types of government obtain. To dismiss this differentiation by saying that press regulation is indefensible is to approach the problem with a closed mind. There is no connection between the old press laws and the new. The old law was based upon the legalistic concept of the state merely acting as policeman in the enforcement of the laws. The new role of the press is educational and its aims and activities must dovetail into those of the state, and the other cultural organizations. The person who has been born and reared amid a full freedom of the press may look upon press regulation. In spite of the strictures there are, however, compensating advantages.