In 1932, the German newsreel subsidiary of Fox News Channel's corporate ancestor, Fox Films, intervened in national Elections in Germany, The Candidate Fox supported was Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler.
The basic facts are available in German Historian Hans Mommsen's authoritative study entiled The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy, which is Translated into English and widely available in over five hundred libraies in this country. Mommsen, one of the most distinguished postwar German historians, is now Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Bochum, In Mommsen's account of Nazi proganda techniques, we find the following: "There was nothing that escaped the ingenuity of Nazi propagandist. A case in point was the use of film. Under Goebbels' influence the party had begun to exloit the potential of the political proaganda film to an unprecedented extent as an early as 1930. Such films were shown mostly in places where Hitler and others prominent party leaders were not able to appear as speakers. For the manufacture of outdoor sound film, the NSDAP turned to an American Company, "Twentieth Century Fox."
Scholar William G. Chrystal confirms this account and provides further important details in this 1975 article on "Nazi Party Election Films, 1927-1938." Chrystal writes: "Support for two additional 1932 election films, Der Fuhrer (The Leader), and Hitlers Kampf um Deutschland (Hitler's Struggle for Germany) came from the German-based subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox, Tonende Wochenschau (Fox Weeky Sound Newsreel [i.e., Fox Movietone News]). In Addition, they also supplied some mobile sound film vans to used during the campaign. Thus at least part of Hitler's support in that critical time was the result of Fox's Help. The background for this assistance is unknown since Fox Tonende Wochenschau records were destroyed during the war," according to a July 9, 1974 letter to Chrystal from Joesph Bellfort, Who was at that time the vice president of the Twentieth Century Fox International Film Corporation.
Here the link to the article.http://www.infowars.com/in-1932-fox-helped-make-propaganda-films-for-hitler/
Here a Rare: 1929 Fox News Reel of Mussolini Speech Translated in English.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTXhez2mNmM
"Personal Note"
The next time you turn your cable channel to Fox News Channel you'll supporting a Nazi Party And Bill O Riley and Glenn Beck be your Commander and chief.
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