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-based daily newspaper published in

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during the

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. It was published by the subsidiary Europa-Verlag of the Nazi-controlled

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, and had a circulation of about 40,000 copies. The paper served as a model for the

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-based '' Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden''. An appreciable difference between ''Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen'' and ''Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden'' was their divergent readership; the former was predominantly read by German soldiers in Norway, whilst the latter chiefly had a civilian readership. A competing newspaper in Norway was the '' Wacht im Norden'', that was distributed free of charge to soldiers. Towards the end of 1940, it was decided to establish an offshoot of the paper in

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. Due to a lack of competent editors from Germany, the Tromsø paper was not established before February 1941. It was withal merged with ''Lappland-Kurier'' upon

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's truce with the

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in September 1944. According to publisher Max Amann, the editors of ''Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen'' enjoyed more editorial freedom than the editors of newspapers in Nazi Germany. Oron Hale writes, however, that on a closer examination, the dissimilarities between the Norwegian paper and the German ones were small. Until June 1940, the ''Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen'' was subject of military censorship by the German propaganda department in Norway. The newspaper and its offshoots were discontinued on the cease-fire in Europe on 8 May 1945.

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