All in favor of detaining journalists or their significant others, raise your hands.

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164. Government approved journalists

In the Third Reich, "contributing by word, news report, or picture to the intellectual content of
newspapers or political periodicals" is a "public profession"; the "contributors are called
editors."33 Admission to the vocation of editor is granted through membership in the National
Association of the German Press, which is a corporate body of public law; registration must be
denied "if the Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda objects." Moreover, "no one
may be an editor" unless he (a) is a German citizen; has (b) not lost his civic rights and the
qualification to hold public office; 34 (c) is of Aryan descent and not married to a person of
non-Aryan descent; (d) has reached the age of 21; (e) is competent; (f) has had professional
training; (g) possesses the qualifications required for intellectually influencing public
opinion.

Editors are under the obligation to withhold from publication everything which:

1. Confuses selfish with common interest in a manner misleading to the public;
2. Can weaken the strength of the German people nationally or internationally, the German
nation's will toward unity, German defensive capacity, German culture or German business, or
may hurt the religious feelings of others;
3. Is offensive to the honor and dignity of a German;
4. Illegally injures the honor or the wellbeing of another person, hurts his reputation, or makes
him ridiculous or contemptible;
5. Is for other reasons indecent.85

We believe that with the Editor Act we have laid the foundations for the creation of the
freest newspaper profession on earth. The contention that we have linked the journalist too
closely to the state, does therefore not correspond to the facts.37

Marx, F. M. (1935). Propaganda and dictatorship. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 179, 211-218.