German Central Newspaper

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The Deutsche Zentral-Zeitung (DZZ) was the German-language organ of the German section of the Communist International appearing in Moscow .

The newspaper appeared from 1927 to 1939. It published speeches and statements by Stalin , government statements and important articles of the CPSU newspaper Pravda in translation. At the time of the great show trials , transcripts of the minutes of the trials appeared in the DZZ over several pages. Numerous German political emigrants wrote articles for the DZZ, including Herbert Wehner under his code name Kurt Funk and the temporary co-editor of the KPD newspaper "Rote Fahne", Hans Knodt - later perished in the GULag - under his code name "Ander", but also some of the German ones Workers who worked as economic emigrants in the Soviet Union. One of the most famous editors-in-chief of the DZZ is the staunch Stalin supporter Julia Annenkowa, who held the post from 1934 until her arrest in June 1937, but had been seriously ill since early 1937.

(Partial) film versions of the DZZ can be found in several German libraries.