Arbeitertum

{{Short description|Fornightly German working class newspaper}}

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Arbeitertum (meaning Labour in English) was a fortnightly German newspaper aimed at working class readers and edited by Reinhold Muchow. It was founded with anti-Marxist and anti-Capitalist intentions.{{cite book|first1=Waldo|last1=Chamberlin|title=Industrial Relations in Germany 1914-1939|page=102|year=1942|asin=B001KX1UUK|publisher=Stanford University Press}} In the early 1930s, it was sponsored by the Nazi Party and in 1933 it became the official publication of the German Labor Front.{{cite book|author=Jan-Pieter Barbian|title=The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany: Books in the Media Dictatorship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHLHAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT34|accessdate=26 December 2014|date=29 August 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4411-7923-4|page=34}} It was thus used to explain to the working class the Party's position on labour affairs, with contributions from many party leaders.{{cite book|first1=Conan|last1=Fischer|title=The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany|page=150|publisher=Berghahn Books|date=November 1, 1996|isbn=978-1571819154}} Der Angriff and Der Erwerbslose were two other newspapers established by the Nazi Party for the same purpose.