[1] It was printed in the Vossische Zeitung on 26 October 1933 and publicised by the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.
It was also published in other newspapers, such as the Frankfurter Zeitung, to widen public awareness of the confidence of the signed poets and writers in Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany.
The declaration came towards the end of 1933, in the period of domestic turmoil in Germany following the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933, the elections that returned Hitler to power on 5 March, and the passing of the Enabling Act on 23 March 1933 which allowed Hitler bypass the German legislature and pass laws at will.
The editor law regulated journalism, and requiring journalists to be registered on an official list of the Reichspressekammer [de], under Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
To join the list, a journalist had to demonstrate one year's professional training, "political reliability", and Aryan descent.