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The Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden (DZN, German Newspaper in the Netherlands) was a German-language nationwide newspaper based in Amsterdam, which was published during almost the entire occupation of the Netherlands in World War II from June 5, 1940 to May 5, 1945, the day of the German capitulation in the "Fortress Holland".[1] Its objective was to influence the public opinion in the Netherlands, especially the one of the Germans in this country (residents, staff working for the occupying power, soldiers).[2]
The DZN was part of a group of German occupation newspapers published by the Europa-Verlag. This group was established systematically during the German campaigns and later collapsed gradually due to the recaptures of the Allied Forces. At their peak, these papers exceeded a total circulation of more than a million copies.[3]
- ^ Newspaper catalogue of the National Library of the Netherlands (Dutch), retrieved on 2008-04-07. Plasse states June 2, 1945, which is apparently wrong (p. 76)
- ^ Sauer, p. 198
- ^ Hale, S. 280. This quantity was achieved in January 1943.