German newspaper in Ostland

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The Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland (DZO) was a daily newspaper that appeared during the German-Soviet War from August 5, 1941 to 1944 in the Reichskommissariat Ostland with its editorial office in Riga . The publisher was Europa-Verlag, a subsidiary of Franz-Eher-Verlag , managed by Rolf Rienhardt , under Max Amann .

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In occupied Poland, and then in Northern and Western Europe, a number of occupation newspapers had already been founded (in chronological order: Krakauer Zeitung , Deutsche Zeitung in Norway , Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands , Brussels newspaper and Paris newspaper , without taking into account annexed areas). Although the name of the DZO suggests that it had exclusive status in the Reich Commissariat , other occupation papers appeared with the Revaler , Minsker , Kauener and Wilnaer Zeitung .

Despite the initial difficulties, the first edition was published just a month and a half after the start of the war. In the first few months, Emil Frotscher acted as chief editor , who had already had other posts of this kind behind him (chief editor of the Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands , deputy chief editor of the Pariser Zeitung ). In addition, Fritz Michel, formerly with the Kieler Nordische Rundschau , was brought in as deputy chief editor who took over his position after the end of Frotscher's development work. Michel was a local player in the cultural and press affairs of the Schleswig district and was also quite successful as a poet. Originally from a national liberal conviction (he was a member of the German People's Party and a Freemason in the 1920s ), he only later turned to National Socialism and in 1933 celebrated a book burning in Schleswig in a poem in the local newspaper.

Other employees included the musicologist Kurt Honolka , who was working as a war correspondent at the time, as well as a number of other authors who otherwise wrote for publications such as Signal or whose contributions also appeared in sister papers of the DZO.

After Michel had been the chief editor of the Schleswiger Nachrichten from 1923 to 1937 , he was able to return to his previous position there from 1949 to 1965.

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  1. ↑ Paul Hoser, Franz Eher Nachf. Verlag (Zentralverlag der NSDAP), in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns , last accessed April 7, 2008 a. Christoph Sauer: The German newspaper in the Netherlands , in: Markku Moilanen, Liisa Tiittula (editor): Persuasion in the press: texts, strategies, analyzes , de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-11-014346-1 , p 199.
  2. ↑ Imprint of the first months of the DZO.
  3. ↑ Lawrence D. Stokes: The Eutin Poet Circle and National Socialism 1936–1945 , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2001, ISBN 3-529-02211-X , pp. 384–389.
  4. ↑ On Honolka Peter Köpf : Writing in any direction. Goebbels propagandists in the West German post-war press . Ch. Links, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86153-094-5 , p. 67. Other authors can be found in the media register on p. 289.
  5. ↑ Uwe Danker, Astrid Schwabe: Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02810-X , p. 39.