[1][2] The Post wrote from a populist perspective, viewing Hitler and his party as a dangerous band of gangsters rather than as ideological enemies, or as a bona fide political movement at all.
In 1933, as part of the Nazi elimination of media opposition, they ordered the closure of certain news outlets across Germany.
The newspaper’s offices were ransacked by the SA on 9 March 1933, ending publication of the Post, and the paper’s staff went into hiding.
[4] The journalists were banned from practicing their profession, struggled to find other work and deprived of their pensions.
[10] In the 50th anniversary addition of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Ron Rosenbaum discusses how the Post tried to expose the Nazi Party's plans of mass genocide and extermination of European Jews in the early 30s, to no avail.