Dresden newspaper

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The Dresdner Zeitung was a Dresden daily newspaper. It appeared for the first time on March 15, 1943 as a result of a merger enforced by the Nazi rulers ("on the highest order") of the two Dresdner daily newspapers, Dresdner Latest Nachrichten and Dresdner Anzeiger , which had been in line since 1933 , and which were last published independently on March 14, 1943 ( "Dresdner Latest News") or 13./14. March 1943 ("Dresdner Anzeiger") were published. Thus, of the ten daily newspapers from the turn of the century to the 20th century, only two remained: The fight for freedom as a newspaper of the NSDAP and the Dresdner Zeitung .

The driving force behind this merger was the Nazi politician and one of Adolf Hitler's closest confidants , Max Amann , who was also pursuing his own economic interests, in addition to the fact that paper contingents were actually becoming increasingly scarce . The procedure was legitimized on February 28, 1943, when the Reich Press Chamber, whose President Amann was (and thus also Reichsleiter for the NSDAP press ), stopped 950 newspapers in Germany on February 28, 1943 in the second "shutdown" due to a shortage of raw materials decreed, so issued "highest order".

After the air raids on Dresden from 13-15. In February 1945 the Dresdner Zeitung was no longer published. The Nazi daily newspaper Der Freiheitskampf appeared from February 16, 1945 with a different newspaper logo and the subtitle Dresdner Zeitung .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monika Löffler: Dresden and the world in 1943 . In Dresdner Latest News from June 28, 2018. online , accessed on March 31, 2020. Unfortunately with the wrong information February 14, 1943 for both, the stocks of both newspapers are in the SLUB until 13/14. March 1943 (Dresdner Anzeiger) or March 14, 1943 (Dresdner Latest News) verifiable, this information is used here.
  2. ^ Björn Hagemann: The press and radio in National Socialism and Italian fascism in comparison. (Diploma thesis). Diplomica, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 9783832431808 , digitized version , pp. 36-39.
  3. ^ The fight for freedom of February 16, 1945. Accessed April 5, 2020.