THE FORGOTTEN FUEHRER

A portrait of Alfred Hugenberg, the csar of a media empire during the 3rd Reich in Germany, and the story of the interdependent relationship between the Nazi regime and a powerful press. Hugenberg was the head of the most influental media group during the Weimar Republic, and hoped to firmly establish the Kaiser as the leader of the 3rd Reich by implementing his company’s myriad powerful opinion-forming tools: newspapers, glossy magazines, yellow press, news agencies, news films, and Europes most important deam factory, the film company UFA. Not only was Hugenberg unsuccessful in leading Germany into a new age, but he saw Hitler and the Nazis come to power using Hugenberg’s own propaganda methods even more effectively.

History, NS-politics, Nazi, Media