Reich, Das

Das Reich was a weekly news magazine of the NSDAP, founded by Joseph Goebbels. The magazine was published in Germany between 1940 and 1945, but was also distributed in surrounding countries.^[1]

Because of the poor reputation of the German press, the head of the Verwaltungsamt der NS-Presse wanted to publish a magazine that would have the stature of The Observer. He secured an exemption from the mandatory propaganda notes and Tagesparole, which gave German magazines their uniform stature.

Theodor Heuss and Max Planck, among others, seized the opportunity to publish pieces under comparatively liberal editors in which they did not have to include obligatory National Socialist phrases. But that certainly did not make it an anti-Nazi magazine. Its circulation climbed from 100,000 to 1,400,000 copies in a few years. ^[2]

Anne writes in her diary that Victor Kugler brought newspapers and magazines for the people in hiding every week, sometimes including Das Reich.^[3]