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Party newspaper of the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) and, starting in 1922, of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
The ‘Neue Zeitung’ was the press organ of the USPD. It appeared for the first time in Munich as a daily newspaper on December 20, 1918. Kurt Eisner determined its course. The editor from January 1919 to 1922 was Richard Kämpfer. With the help of the pro-national Bolshevik Hauptmann a.D. Beppo Römer, a leader of the ‘Bundes Oberland’, money flowed from the association to the Neue Zeitung. After the merger of the left wing of the USPD with the KPD , the Neue Zeitung became the central organ of the KPD for southern Bavaria. The Berlin central of the KPD was co-owner due to its printing shop. Circulation fluctuated between 2,000 and 3,000.
From January 24-February 25, 1925, the newspaper was banned. Two of its editors, Walter Häbich and Franz Stenzer, were killed in the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1933. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Bavaria on March 9, 1933, the Neue Zeitung was finally banned in Bavaria. After that, it was produced in the underground until August 1934 despite multiple arrests.
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