GOVERNMENT AND PRESS IN GERMANY, 1870-1945.

The article discusses the relationship between government of Germany and the press during the eras Bismarckian, Weimar, and Nazi, until the end of World War II. It mentions the Reich Press Law which was passed during the administration of Otto von Bismarck which provides legal protection of freedom of press in the country. It says that during the Wimar Republic, newspapers undergone intense censorship and regulation wherein General Erich Ludendorff and Army High Command uses the press as their instrument for their war propaganda. Meanwhile, during the Third Reich, newspapers and journalists association were controlled by the government of Adolf Hitler.