Het Nationale Dagblad

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The Nationale Dagblad ( The National Daily Newspaper ) was a Dutch daily newspaper with an editorial office in Amsterdam . Besides the weekly newspaper Volk en Vaderland, it was the party newspaper of the Dutch National Socialists NSB .

history

The first edition of the Nationale Dagblad appeared on November 2, 1936 with a circulation of 100,000 copies, editor-in-chief Meinoud Rost van Tonningen was also the chairman of the NSB parliamentary group in the Second Chamber of the States General . He was an exponent of the völkisch-annexionist, ie extremely pro-German wing within the NSB, while Volk en Vaderland reflected the position of the party leadership under Anton Mussert . In terms of content, the Nationale Dagblad was in contrast to Volk en Vaderlandless polemical and ideological; the main focus should be on informing the reader. After a few months, only a fraction of the first edition was achieved with 11,000 copies.

As early as 1937, the director of the newspaper was expelled from the daily newspaper association NDP. This had nothing to do with himself, but with his newspaper, which had violently attacked the bourgeois press. On the first day of the German attack on the Netherlands, May 10, 1940, the Nationale Dagblad was banned, but after the quick victory of the Germans it could reappear seven days later. Rost van Tonningen had been arrested as a subversive person before the attack on May 3, but was released after the fighting ended. In October of that year, however, he was dismissed by Mussert. The newspaper had included Rost van Tonningen four successive editors-in-chief during the occupation, these permanent replacements were not uncommon in the Dutch press during these years.

Since the Dutch newspapers had not only been brought into line since 1941, but also had editors from the ranks of the NSB forced upon them, they differed less and less from the right-wing extremist Nationale Dagblad . The circulation of the newspaper remained low compared to its competition, despite significant increases during the occupation, even if the Nationale Dagblad was given an advantage in terms of paper allocation, for example. In July 1943 a value of 27,247 copies was reached, so the Nationale Dagblad was in last place in the field of national newspapers. After the Second World War, the newspaper was banned from publication for 75 years.

Rost van Tonningen was captured and committed suicide while in custody. One of his successors, J. Raatgever, received an 18-year prison sentence and a 20-year professional ban.

literature

  • Gerhard Hirschfeld : Foreign rule and collaboration. The Netherlands under German occupation 1940–1945 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1984 (= studies on contemporary history; 25), ISBN 3-421-06192-0
  • Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers / seed gesteld by Jan van de Plasse. Red. Wim Verbei , Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 90-75727-77-1 . (Dutch; earlier edition: Jan van de Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagbladpers , Cramwinckel, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-75727-25-9 )
  • René Vos: Niet voor publicatie. De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-218-3752-8 (Dutch, with a German summary)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers / seed gesteld door Jan van de Plasse. Red.Wim Verbei , Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, p. 63.
  2. ^ Gerhard Hirschfeld: Foreign rule and collaboration. The Netherlands under German occupation 1940–1945 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1984, p. 164
  3. ↑ See for example Peter Berger: In the shadow of the dictatorship. The financial diplomacy of the representative of the League of Nations in Austria, Meinoud Marinus Rost van Tonningen 1931–1936 , Böhlau, Vienna – Cologne – Weimar 2000, p. 496.
  4. ^ René Vos: Niet voor publicatie. De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, p. 33
  5. ^ René Vos: Niet voor publicatie. De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, p. 53
  6. ^ René Vos: Niet voor publicatie. De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, p. 105
  7. ^ René Vos: Niet voor publicatie. De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, p. 203
  8. ↑ Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers / seed gesteld by Jan van de Plasse. Red.Wim Verbei , Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, p. 194
  9. ^ René Vos: Niet voor publicatie. De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, p. 435
  10. ^ René Vos: Niet voor publicatie. De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, p. 432

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