Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen

{{Short description|Norwegian newspaper during World War II}}

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Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen ({{langx|en|German Newspaper in Norway}}) was an Oslo-based daily newspaper published in Norway during the Second World War. It was published by the subsidiary Europa-Verlag of the Nazi-controlled Franz Eher Nachfolger,{{sfnm|Hoser|2010|Sauer|1994|2p=199}} and had a circulation of about 40,000 copies.{{sfn|Nøkleby|1995}} The paper served as a model for the Amsterdam-based Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden.{{sfn|Sauer|1994|p=198}}

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,{{sfn|Eckhardt|1975|p=41}} whilst the latter chiefly had a civilian readership.{{sfn|Sauer|1994|p=198}} A competing newspaper in Norway was the Wacht im Norden, that was distributed free of charge to soldiers.{{sfn|Eckhardt|1975|p=39}} Towards the end of 1940, it was decided to establish an offshoot of the paper in Tromsø. Due to a lack of competent editors from Germany, the Tromsø paper was not established before February 1941.{{sfn|Eckhardt|1975|pp=38, 40}} It was withal merged with Lappland-Kurier upon Finland's truce with the Soviet Union in September 1944.{{sfn|Eckhardt|1975|pp=43–45}}

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.{{sfn|Hale|1965|p=281}} Until June 1940, the Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen was subject of military censorship by the German propaganda department in Norway.{{sfn|Eckhardt|1975|pp=37–38}} The newspaper and its offshoots were discontinued on the cease-fire in Europe on 8 May 1945.{{sfn|Eckhardt|1975|pp=5, 45}}