De Waarheid (literally 'The Truth') was the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Netherlands.
History
editIt originated in 1940 under the German occupation as a resistance paper, the day after general H.G. Winkelman had forbidden publication of the earlier Communist Volksdagblad. The party decided on May 15, 1940, to continue the Volksdagblad illegally under the name De 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.[2]
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
- 1990: 6.000[3]
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- ^ Post in response to a competition by De Waarheid (newspaper)
- ^ Dutch Communist Daily Newspaper, De Waarheid 1945-1990 from MMF publications. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ nl:Jan van der Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers (Amsterdam, 2005) ISBN 90-757-27-771
External links
edit- De Waarheid from 20 September 1943 from Historische Kranten website. Retrieved 14 April 2008.