The Vossische Zeitung was the well known liberal German newspaper

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 that was published in Berlin

Berlin

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 (1721–1934). Its predecessor was founded in 1704. Among the editors of the "aunt Voss" were Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...

, Willibald Alexis

Willibald Alexis

Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring , was a German historical novelist.-Life:...

, Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane

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 and Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of...

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Until the second year of the Third Reich's reign over Germany, the publication was generally regarded as the Fatherland's national newspaper of record, just as The Times of London and Le Temps

Le Temps (Paris)

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were to Great Britain

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 and France

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, respectively. At this point, the Vossische Zeitung was dissolved by the official, state-sanctioned political party, the all-powerful NSDAP, which circulated its own nationally distributed newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter

Völkischer Beobachter

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