Status Updates From Strange Bird: The Albatross...

"English films are indescribably naive," [Goebbels] remarked in his diary. "But I think they are good enough for the English, who are themselves enormously stupid, unenlightened, and primitive. We should take this more into account in our propaganda aimed at England."

The Nazi regime 'earned foreign currency from the...books that Albatross exported; and books in English reached smaller, more educated audiences in the Reich and so were deemed less dangerous to the Volk...English-language books printed in Germany were less culturally troublesome than they were economically useful.'

During the late 1920s to the 1930s, German readers devoured British crime novels and detective tales, "which filled a gap in German literature: diverting, light-hearted, and suspenseful reads...One-third of fiction translated into German from English was detective fiction; in 1934 and 1938, the percentage rose to just under half."