Westfälische Landeszeitung - Rote Erde

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The Westfälische Landeszeitung - Rote Erde was the official organ of the NSDAP and all authorities of the Gaus Westfalen-Süd , based in Bochum .

The Westfälische Landeszeitung - Rote Erde appeared daily in Dortmund from January 30, 1934 to April 22, 1945 . It was a combination of an official gazette and a party newspaper of the NSDAP and thus reflected the assumption of state functions by the NSDAP.

She took over the expropriated General-Anzeiger for Dortmund , which was distributed from April 21, 1933 to January 29, 1934 with the subtitle Rote Erde .

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The predecessor as the party newspaper before the seizure of power was Rote Erde , which was published daily by Josef Wagner in Bochum from February 2, 1931 to May 2, 1933 with the additions Bochum National Newspaper, Observer for Hagen and the Sauerland, Dortmunder Nationalanzeiger, Combat Journal for National Socialist Politics has been. The newspaper was the National Socialist organ for the Gau Westfalen-Süd. It was banned several times in 1931 because of contempt for President Paul von Hindenburg . Its editor-in-chief Otto Piclum was appointed State Commissioner for Bochum on March 24, 1933 and later Lord Mayor of the city.

From July 1919 to April 1922, the DNVP- affiliated weekly newspaper Die Rote Erde - German newspaper to promote the sense of home and the love of the country - had already been published in Dortmund with a similar title .

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