''Zentralorgan'' is a 19th-century German term for journals associated with a certain technical field, party or political movement. Later it was reduced to a term for official party papers and journals of socialist and worker parties since the 19th century. Besides the ''

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'', ''Zentralorgan der Zionistischen Vereinigung'' (main newspaper of the

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founded by

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) or ''Zentralorgan für die gesamte Chirurgie und ihre Grenzgebiete'' (an important medical newspaper dealing with surgery) most famous examples are the '' Vorwärts'', owned by the SPD. Within the GDR, the daily newspaper ''

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'' was ''Zentralorgan'' of the

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. ''Zentralorgan'' of the youth association Freie Deutsche Jugend was the daily newspaper '' Junge Welt''. Another use of ''Zentralorgan'' is found in important journals in certain fields; e.g. the computer magazine

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has been dubbed ''Zentralorgan of

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istan''; and '' Rock Hard'' has been dubbed the ''Zentralorgan of heavy metal fandom in Germany''.{{cite web, access-date=23 July 2019, url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecial/d-52691478.html, first=Christoph , last=Scheuring, website= Spiegel.de, title= GITARREN zu Pflugscharen, publication-date=1 February 1994, language=de, url-status=live, archive-date=23 March 2010, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323015810/http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecial/d-52691478.html Another more derogative use is to describe an important news outlet that suppresses certain opinions in which deviant opinions are unwanted.

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Newspapers published in Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany Socialist newspapers