German newspaper (Stettin)

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The Deutsche Zeitung, with the subtitle Frontzeitung für die Deutsche Population, was a daily newspaper that appeared in Stettin from May 20, 1945 to June 10, 1945 . It was one of four German-language front -line newspapers published by the Political Headquarters of the Red Army .

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The Deutsche Zeitung appeared daily from May 20, 1945 to June 10, 1945, except Mondays. The issues on Thursday, May 31, 1945 and Friday, June 1, 1945 were canceled. The circulation area of ​​the newspaper was Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania , including the city of Stettin .

The printing took place initially in Greifswald , then in Stettin. The circulation was about 50,000 pieces.

The editor in chief was the Soviet lieutenant colonel Mikhail Petrovich Sokolov , a political officer of the 2nd Belarusian Front . The editors were Soviet citizens and Germans, especially German communists. The German editors included Karl Krahn , who later became editor of New Germany , and Bernhard Bechler (1911–2002), who later became Minister of the Interior of Brandenburg .

After the newspaper ceased with the June 10, 1945 edition, the Soviet editorial staff was relocated to Liegnitz in Silesia , where it again published a newspaper with the same title Deutsche Zeitung until autumn 1946 , but the count began again with number 1 and the now carried the subtitle Issued by the Red Army for the German population . The city of Szczecin was handed over to the Polish state by the Soviet occupying forces on July 5, 1945 , and its population was then expelled by the Polish state.

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The newspaper reported on the situation in Germany under Allied occupation, on efforts to rebuild and on the political reorganization of Germany. The Mayor of Szczecin Erich Wiesner (1897–1968) , appointed by the occupying power, published an article in the May 26, 1945 issue of Szczecin anti-fascists, be on your post! . The Soviet Union was an important topic in reporting on foreign policy issues ; the newspaper tried to give its readers a positive image of the Soviet Union.

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literature

  • Hans-Gerd Warmann: The "Deutsche Zeitung", Stettin 1945. In: Stettiner Bürgerbrief. No. 26, 2000, ISSN  1619-6201 , pp. 64-66.
  • Hans-Gerd Warmann: The sad end and a difficult new beginning. The first new daily newspaper in Stettin occupied by the Red Army. In: Stettiner Bürgerbrief. No. 27, 2001, ISSN  1619-6201 , pp. 50-62.