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NS-Period and Reconstruction
The value orientated “Styria” company mission was a thorn in the side of the National Socialists. On the day of Austria´s “Anschluss” to the German Reich, the Preßvereinanstalten were occupied and confiscated by the SA. Dismissals and arrests followed. The “Katholischer Preßverein” was reorganized under the name of “Preßverein Graz” and positions were filled with NS-Party members. The company was given the name “Steirerdruck”. The “Südostdeutsche Zeitungsverlags GmbH” (NS-Southeast German Newspaper Society) made sure the media were forced in to line and the “Kleine Zeitung” also had to publicize Hitler´s propaganda in the years to follow.
At the end of the War, the Catholic Preßvereinanstalten re-emerged together with “Styria”. It was not only a rebuilding of materials, but also of spiritual and moral sense. The General Director Karl Maria Stepan, returned from KZ (concentration camp), was a guarantor for this conversion.
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