News (newspaper)
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| language | German |
| First edition | 1918 |
| attitude | 1941 |
| Sold edition | approx. 25,000 copies |
Nachrichten was a Soviet German-language daily newspaper from the Volga German Republic . It was an organ of the CPSU and appeared from 1918 to 1941.
history
The newspaper first appeared in March 1918 under the name Vorwärts and was published by the German commissariat in Saratov . A year later, Vorwärts was merged with the newspaper Kommunist , which had been published in Katharinenstadt since 1916 . The newspaper was then renamed "Nachrichten", the circulation at that time was around 2,500. In 1922 the editorial office moved from Saratov to Cossack City (today's Engels), the frequency of publication was changed to daily.
In the following years, the circulation increased sharply, but had to be limited to a value of around 25,000 due to paper shortages in 1931.
With the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the situation for the Volga Germans changed dramatically. The Volga German Republic was dissolved and its inhabitants of German descent were deported to Central Asia and Siberia . On August 30, 1941, the paper printed the decree "On the resettlement of Germans who live in the Volgarayons" of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . After that the newspaper was closed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Warkentin, Julia-Maria. Nelly Däs - The life and work of the Russian-German writer . Munich: GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2008. p. 11
- ↑ Heitman, Sidney. Germans from Russia in Colorado . Fort Collins, Colo: Western Social Science Association, 1978. pp. 36, 43
- ^ Wolgadeutsche.net: news