Surely the Daily Mail is just your average paper standing up for the down trodden white middle classes?
No it has a quite dark and sinister history behind it.
The people who created it were the Harmsworth brothers Alfred and Harold (Harold later became Lord Rothermere).
So what were the Harmsworth's views on the world,surely just your average hard working people who wanted a decent and fair life for everybody.
Here's a piece from the Daily Mail dated 10th July, 1933 by Lord Rothermere aka (Harold Harmsworth)
I urge all British young men and women to study closely the progress of the Nazi regime in Germany. They must not be misled by the misrepresentations of its opponents. The most spiteful distracters of the Nazis are to be found in precisely the same sections of the British public and press as are most vehement in their praises of the Soviet regime in Russia.
They have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call "Nazi atrocities" which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence such as are inevitable among a nation half as big again as ours, but which have been generalized, multiplied and exaggerated to give the impression that Nazi rule is a bloodthirsty tyranny.
The German nation, moreover, was rapidly falling under the control of its alien elements. In the last days of the pre-Hitler regime there were twenty times as many Jewish Government officials in Germany as had existed before the war. Israelites of international attachments were insinuating themselves into key positions in the German administrative machine. Three German Ministers only had direct relations with the Press, but in each case the official responsible for conveying news and interpreting policy to the public was a Jew.
Photo of Harold Harmsworth meeting Hitler
This put's the Daily Mail's outlook into context for younger readers?
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/BUrothermere.htm
"Sorry i meant to put this in general not news".
