Post Second World War
In 1945, after the Second World War had ended, Weiss was interned, and on 15 July 1949 a Denazification court sentenced him to three years in a labour camp, confiscated 30% of his wealth, and placed a 10-year ban on his professional activities.
Shortly before he began his sentence, Wilhelm Weiss died, about a month short of his 58th birthday. Through his activities in the Bavarian War Ministry's press department, Weiß came to journalism after the First World War. He got involved early on in the völkisch movement and was a fervent devotee of Adolf Hitler's ideas. Before 1933, the year of the Nazis' seizure of power, he was judicially sentenced many times for political misdeeds.
However, after Hitler and the NSDAP had come to power, Weiss organized the "equalization" of the press, though he also saw to it that individual journalists could keep their jobs despite the Editor Law (Schriftleitergesetz).
Weiß never questioned National Socialism.
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| Name | Weiss, Wilhelm |
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| Short description | German politician |
| Date of birth | 31 March 1892 |
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| Date of death | 24 February 1950 |
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