Search in Europe, 1900 to 1949

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8 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
8 May 1941	Greece: collaborationist government creates a Directorate-General for Press and Radio to review films and publications before release	Greece (RSF rank: not recorded)	Prior restraint	Georgios Tsolakoglou	Sustained
April 1938	Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law	Spain (RSF 2026 rank: 29th of 180)	Credential control	Francisco Franco	Reversed (1 April 1977)
4 October 1933	Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists, 1933	Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)	Credential control	Adolf Hitler	Reversed (8 May 1945)
28 February 1933	Germany: Reichstag Fire Decree suspends freedom of the press, February 1933	Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Adolf Hitler	Sustained (1 May 1945)
1933	Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press controls under a new constitution	Portugal (RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180)	Prior restraint	António de Oliveira Salazar	Reversed (25 April 1974)
May 1926	United Kingdom: Government requisitions newsprint and restricts rival newspapers during the 1926 General Strike	United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Stanley Baldwin	Ongoing (10 May 1926)
1922	Glavlit created: Soviet censorship office, 1922	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Prior restraint	Vladimir Lenin	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
27 August 1914	Britain's Official Press Bureau controls newspaper coverage of the First World War	United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)	Prior restraint	Herbert Henry Asquith	Sustained (12 November 1914)

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