Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
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Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (often abbreviated to DAZ) was a German newspaper that appeared between 1861 and 1945.
Until 1918 the title of the paper was Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Although
conservative flagship of the German press ("Bismarcks Hauspostille"). At the end of the First World War, the name was changed to "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung", under the intention to form a conservative and democratic equivalent to the British newspaper The Times in Germany and give the Reich a more democratic image. Various liberal and conservative writers worked for DAZ at that time, Otto Flake was head of the Cultural Section ( called "Feuilleton" in German newspapers ), people like the historian Egmont Zechlin, the journalist Dr. Friedrich Schrader and his Swiss colleague from Constantinople Max Rudolf Kaufmann
worked for the paper.
In the early 1920s,
anti-Armenian campaign, claiming in one article that murder and backstabbing was "the true Armenian manner".[1]
Hugenberg press and anti-democratic right-wing circles. After Stinnes' (and Lensch's) death, the Prussian government secretly bought the DAZ in 1925. Less than a year later, the Reich government took it over, but it was sold again when the affair came to light.[2]
By 1930, the DAZ had declined and was suffering large losses.[2]
References
- ISBN 978-0-674-50479-0.
- ^ a b Fulda, Bernhard (2009). Press and Politics in the Weimar Republic, pp. 22, 43. Oxford University Press.
External links
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- Access to NAZ and DAZ on Hypress.
- DAZ in digital form, years 1918-1931
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