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''De Waarheid'' (literally 'The Truth') was the newspaper of the
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.
''De Waarheid'' from 20 September 1943
from Historische Kranten website. Retrieved 14 April 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Waarheid, De 1940 establishments in the Netherlands 1990 disestablishments in the Netherlands Communist newspapers Defunct newspapers published in the Netherlands Dutch-language newspapers Dutch resistance newspapers Newspapers established in 1940 Publications disestablished in 1990
''De Waarheid'' (literally 'The Truth') was the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Netherlands
The Communist Party of the Netherlands (, , CPN) was a communist party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1909 as the Social Democratic Party (Netherlands), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and merged with the Pacifist Socialist Party, the ...
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History
It originated in 1940 under theGerman occupation
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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.
Circulation figures
*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 :nl:Jan van der Plasse, ''Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers'' (Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...
, 2005)
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External links
''De Waarheid'' from 20 September 1943
from Historische Kranten website. Retrieved 14 April 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Waarheid, De 1940 establishments in the Netherlands 1990 disestablishments in the Netherlands Communist newspapers Defunct newspapers published in the Netherlands Dutch-language newspapers Dutch resistance newspapers Newspapers established in 1940 Publications disestablished in 1990