Economic press service

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The Economic Policy Press Service (WPD) was a party official correspondence that was published from October 1930 to October 1931 by the Economic Policy and Agricultural Policy Department of the NSDAP as a weekly periodical.

Otto Wagener acted as the official publisher and had the correspondence produced and distributed by the publisher Wirtschaftspolitischer Pressedienst GmbH in Munich, which was founded for this purpose.

In terms of content, the organ dealt with economic issues that were discussed and analyzed from a National Socialist perspective. The journalists who wrote articles included Walther Darré , Franz Karl Jurda , Otto Karl Lorenz and Gustav Staebe .

The first year of the WPD comprised fourteen issues. The second year of 1931 reached twenty-eight further editions before the correspondence was discontinued, whereby the last three numbers, dated September 18, October 3 or October 17, 1931, were shown as double numbers 26/27, 28/29 and 30/31 were.

The forty-two editions of the WPD can still be viewed today in some libraries and archives - mostly in bound form as edited volumes specially prepared by the archives and libraries concerned.