German newspaper (New York)

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German newspaper

description NSDAP-affiliated newspaper in New York
language German
publishing company DZ Publishing Corp.
First edition 1934
attitude 1939
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 30,000 copies
(1934)
Editor-in-chief Walter cap
editor WL McLaughlin
ZDB 1074831-3

The Deutsche Zeitung in New York was a German-language newspaper that appeared in New York from 1934 to 1939. The publication supported the politics of the National Socialist German Reich and was the association organ of the Friends of New Germany , a forerunner organization of the American-German Confederation, founded in July 1933 .

history

The newspaper, together with the publication German Outlook, was the mouthpiece of the National Socialists in the United States , even if publisher WL McLaughlin, also Vice President of DZ Publishing Corporation, in 1934 during a congressional investigation ( Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities ... , 73rd Congress, 2 . Session.) Asserted that the Deutsche Zeitung is self-supporting and not financed by Germany. The editor-in-chief Walterkap also had to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and was questioned by the Jewish HUAC chairman Samuel Dickstein . In November 1934, McLaughlin escaped a one-year prison sentence for defamation, but had to undertake not to publish any more inflammatory articles against Jews in the Deutsche Zeitung.

literature

  • Klaus Kipphan: German Propaganda in the United States, 1933–1941. Winter, Heidelberg 1971, ISBN 3-533-02158-0 .
  • Stephen Economides: The National Socialism and the German-Language Press in New York 1933-1941 , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8204-5750-X
  • Cornelia Wilhelm: Movement or Association? National Socialist Volkstumsppolitik in the USA . Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-06805-8 . ( Transatlantic Historical Studies. Volume 9)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Klaus Kipphan: German Propaganda in the United States . Heidelberg 1971, p. 69.
    The DZ Publishing Corporation is also referred to in the literature as DZ Publishing Company or DZ Publishing Company , the DZ / DZ stands for Deutsche Zeitung . The full name of WL McLaughlin who is just called that is William Lyon McLaughlin.
  2. ^ Klaus Kipphan: German Propaganda in the United States . Heidelberg 1971, p. 62.
  3. ↑ a b Pleas Save Editor from Prison Term . In: "New York Times" of November 14, 1934.
  4. ↑ Investigation of Nazi propaganda activities and investigations of certain other propaganda activities: Public hearings before the Special committee on un-American activities, House of representatives, Seventy-third Congress, second session . Vol. 12, United States Congress, Special Committee on Un-American Activities. United States Government Printing Office , Washington DC 1934, p. 323.
  5. ^ Nazi Papers Here Deny Official Aid . In: "New York Times" of March 15, 1934.
  6. ↑ Jeffrey Scott Demsky: Going Public in Support: American Discursive Opposition to Nazi Anti-Semitism, 1933–1944 (PDF; 703 kB) , University of Florida 2007, p. 40. (Dissertation)