The newspaper

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The newspaper was a German-language newspaper in London at the time of World War II . It appeared from March 1941 to June 1945 with an average circulation of 15,000–20,000 and was aimed mainly at Germans in exile. A thin print edition was also sold overseas and dropped over Germany by the Royal Air Force .

The newspaper appeared in 1941 as a four-page daily newspaper and from Friday, January 2, 1942 as a twelve-page weekly newspaper. At the same time, the frequency of publication of the overseas edition was increased from two weeks to weekly.

The newspaper mainly contained news about the war and from Germany. According to the first edition of March 12, 1941, it was the only free and independent German-language newspaper in Europe, even though it was subject to general English censorship regulations.

The editor-in-chief was Johannes Lothar until January 1944, then Dietrich Mende .

For Die Zeitung wrote u. a. Sebastian Haffner , Peter de Mendelssohn and Friedrich Feld . Nelly Rossmann worked as a graphic designer for the newspaper Nelly Rossmann, who had been a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung until she was expelled in 1935 due to her Jewish religious affiliation . Drawings by Walter Trier are documented for the years 1941 and 1942 .

The newspaper (Stuttgart)

The journalist Waldemar Schweitzer published an autonomous magazine under the same name in Stuttgart from 1964 to 1966 ("This newspaper is only influenced by its editors"), which was conceived as a left-wing counterpoint to the Spiegel .

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  1. Explanations: The newspaper from the German National Library ( Memento from February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Nelly Rossmann Family Papers in the holdings of the USHMM , accessed on July 31, 2017
  3. ^ Markus Behmer Ed .: German Journalism in Exile 1933 to 1945. People, positions, perspectives. Festschrift for Ursula E. Koch . Lit, Münster 2000, ill. Pp. 158, 169 (here twice), 170