The Silesian

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The Silesian

description former weekly newspaper
First edition 1948
attitude 2015
Sold edition 12,000 copies
(Publisher's information)
editor Dietmar Munier

Der Schlesier was a German weekly newspaper with a historical revisionist orientation.

history

Since it was founded in 1948, the weekly newspaper has been published by a small private publisher in North Rhine-Westphalia. The self-designation was "independent, all-German" weekly newspaper "Der Schlesier - Breslauer Nachrichten". For many years the newspaper was the central organ of the Silesian Landsmannschaft and received federal funding until 1984. In 1985, the federal government stopped granting funding due to revisionist statements. In 1988, the Silesian Landsmannschaft separated from its former central body and distanced itself.

After the death of the last publisher, Hans Joachim Ilgner, in 2010, the weekly newspaper was taken over by the Kiel publisher Dietmar Munier and since March 2011 has also appeared in kiosks in a new layout. There is also a Facebook page . In addition, Silesian archives are offered for sale through Munier's "Read and Schenken-Verlag" . Munier is also editor of the magazine First! and the German military magazine as well as owner of various book publishers, which he leads through the publishing group Reading and Gifting. According to the publisher, the edition was 12,000 copies. The federal government named a number of 7,500 to 10,000 copies. In the first half of 2015, the paper, which had previously only appeared every two weeks, was discontinued as an independent organ.

Alignment

The Silesian was aimed at Germans who were expelled from Silesia after the Second World War , who make up the majority of the readership, as well as to younger descendants whose interest in Silesia should be aroused. The paper acted as the mouthpiece of the Central Council of Expelled Germans eV, a splinter group of the right-wing extremist spectrum.

The main subject areas of the Silesian were the classic historical and territorial revisionism, aspects of which include the denial of the guilt of the National Socialist regime for the outbreak of the Second World War and a relativization of the crimes in the Third Reich. The paper questioned the cession of the former German eastern territories and demanded the return of the areas east of the Oder-Neisse line to Germany. In addition, there were articles with clearly xenophobic and anti-Semitic content. Since 1996 the newspaper has been monitored and regularly evaluated by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.bnr.de/content/vertrittenenblatt-jetzt-bei-munier
  2. ↑ Printed matter 12/1096 of the German Bundestag, response of the federal government to a small request from the PDS / Linke Liste (PDF; 246 kB)
  3. ↑ http://www.facebook.com/Der.Schlesier
  4. ↑ a b c Verfassungsschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen, Der Schlesier, Memento from September 16, 2012, accessed on June 23, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Printed matter 14/4464 of the German Bundestag, answer of the federal government to a small question of the parliamentary group of the PDS (PDF; 58 kB)