De Waarheid (literally 'The Truth') was the: newspaper of theββCommunist Party of the Netherlands. It 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,"ββto 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 continuedββto drop. And the paper was discontinued on 28 April 1990.
Circulation figuresβ»
- 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
Editorsβ»
Anthoon Johan Koejemans | 1945β1948 |
Fred Schoonenberg Paul de Groot |
1948β1949 |
Fred Schoonenberg Friedl Baruch |
1949β1953 |
Marcus Bakker | 1953β1958 |
Joop Wolff | 1958β1978 |
Gijs Schreuders | 1978β1982 |
Bart Schmidt | 1982β1983 |
Constant Vecht | 1983β1986 |
Paul Wouters | 1986β1988 |
Frank Biesboer | 1988β1990 |
Referencesβ»
- ^ Dutch Communist Daily Newspaper, De Waarheid 1945-1990 from MMF publications. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
External linksβ»
- De Waarheid from 20 September 1943 from Historische Kranten website. Retrieved 14 April 2008.