“Censorship” of controversial reprints of Nazi-era newspapers [EN]
February 7, 2009 – 10:29 amThe word “censored” is splashed across the front page of the current edition of the Zeitungszeugen, or “Newspaper Witnesses”. As you flick through the paper, it is pretty thin because the controversial reprints of Nazi-era newspapers have been removed – leaving only some commentaries on them.
Ever since the papers hit the news-stands here in Germany in January, there has been a bout of national soul-searching about the country’s Nazi past.
Jewish groups and commentators have questioned the project’s historic value, claiming that the reprints of the Nazi-era newspapers will play into the hands of far-right groups who could use the papers for their own propaganda purposes.
BBC News: Nazi-era papers trigger German row
