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12<br />

175 Years of Bertelsmann<br />

1930 – 1950<br />

1930 – 1950<br />

View inside the printing hall, 1935 1930s technology: Typecase with composing stick, punches<br />

and galley<br />

Th e publication of nationalistic, “völkisch” and even some anti-Semitic literature revealed that the company’s Christian conservative<br />

tradition was compatible with Nazi ideology. Bertelsmann acquired large market shares: Th e total print run of approximately<br />

19 million copies of special armed forces editions made C. Bertelsmann the country’s dubious No.1 book supplier to the military.<br />

As the result of a court case pertaining to illegal procurement of paper stocks and as part of the mobilization of Germany’s entire<br />

economy, C. Bertelsmann Verlag was shut down in 1944.<br />

Bertelsmann Annual Report 2009

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