Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ʔalɡemaɪnə ˈtsaɪtʊŋ]; often abbreviated to DAZ; English: German General Newspaper) was a German newspaper published between 1861 and 1945. Until 1918, the name of the paper was Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (English: North German General Newspaper). Although Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and a close associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was a member of the founding editorial board in 1861, the paper soon became a conservative flagship of the German press ("Bismarcks Hauspostille"). At the end of World War I, the name was changed to "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung", under the intention to form a conservative and democratic equivalent to the British newspaper The Times in Germany and give the Reich a more democratic image.
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