The Presseabteilung was a press department created shortly after the German occupation of Norway in April 1940.
The work was based on political control of the press, meaning direct interference, closing, firing of editors and journalists, and even arrests.
Orders went into detail about how the occupant power wanted each piece of news handled, as well as what events were not to be covered at all.
The largest and best known was Fritt Folk ("Free People"), which took over the offices of Arbeiderbladet after this Oslo paper was closed down in August 1940.
The department managed to reduce the number of publications, which made its censorship work easier.