The New Day (Prague)

The New Day was a daily newspaper with an editorial office in Prague . It was founded in 1939 and served as the publication organ of the Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . The newspaper belonged to Europa-Verlag, a company led by Rolf Rienhardt within the Franz-Eher-Verlag from Max Amann , in which the foreign and occupation newspapers of the German Reich were combined; Outwardly, the Bohemian-Moravian Publishing House and Printing Company was the publisher.

Publishing director was Anton Langhans, editor-in-chief Walter Wannenmacher. The ten-person editorial team was supplemented by employees in Berlin and Vienna as well as in Ankara , Pressburg , Budapest , Bucharest , Lisbon , Madrid , Sofia and Stockholm (as of 1944). The newspaper appeared every weekday with a circulation of around 40,000 copies with a main and provincial edition until it was discontinued in 1945 by the end of the Protectorate.

literature

Institute for Newspaper Science at the University of Berlin (Ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 315

Individual evidence

↑ Oron J. Hale : Press in the Straitjacket 1933-45. Droste, Düsseldorf 1965, German translation of The captive press in the Third Reich , University Press, Princeton 1964, p. 280.
^ Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 315 and Thomas Tavernaro: Hitler's publishing house and the NSDAP. The Franz Eher Successor GmbH. Edition Praesens, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7069-0220-6 , p. 74. The Europa-Verlag changed the name of the empty shell company Rheinische Verlagsanstalt (Tavernaro, p. 75).

[1] Oron J. Hale : Press in the Straitjacket 1933-45. Droste, Düsseldorf 1965, German translation of The captive press in the Third Reich , University Press, Princeton 1964, p. 280.

[2] Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 315 and Thomas Tavernaro: Hitler's publishing house and the NSDAP. The Franz Eher Successor GmbH. Edition Praesens, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7069-0220-6 , p. 74. The Europa-Verlag changed the name of the empty shell company Rheinische Verlagsanstalt (Tavernaro, p. 75).