De Waarheid
De Waarheid(literally 'The Truth') was the newspaper of theCommunist Party of the Netherlands.It originated in 1940 under theGerman occupationas aresistancepaper, the day after generalH.G. Winkelmanhad forbidden publication of the earlier CommunistVolksdagblad.The party decided on May 15, 1940, to continue theVolksdagbladillegally under the nameDe Waarheid.The first months were spent setting up a nationwide network of 'handout points' ('stencilposten'), the main articles would be written centrally, whereas the different 'handout points' added localized articles. These local versions sometimes were published under different names as 'De vonk' ('The spark') and 'Het noorderlicht' ('The northern light'). In the last decades it became a more independent left wing newspaper but circulation continued to drop and the paper was discontinued on 28 April 1990.[1]
Circulation figures
[edit]- 1945 (September): 341.550
- 1947: 150.000
- 1948: 135.000
- 1950: 113.000
- 1955: 50.000
- 1960: 29.000
- 1966: 22.000
- 1968: 21.200
- 1970: 20.000
- 1975: 22.000
- 1980: 26.000
- 1985: 12.000
- 1988: 9.000
Editors
[edit]| Anthoon Johan Koejemans | 1945–1948 |
| Fred Schoonenberg Paul de Groot |
1948–1949 |
| Fred Schoonenberg Friedl Baruch |
1949–1953 |
| Marcus Bakker | 1953–1958 |
| Joop Wolff | 1958–1978 |
| Gijs Schreuders | 1978–1982 |
| Bart Schmidt | 1982–1983 |
| Constant Vecht | 1983–1986 |
| Paul Wouters | 1986–1988 |
| Frank Biesboer | 1988–1990 |
References
[edit]- ^Dutch Communist Daily Newspaper,De Waarheid1945-1990from MMF publications. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
External links
[edit]- De Waarheidfrom 20 September 1943from Historische Kranten website. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
