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Haagsche Post

Weekly opinion magazine, which was read in the Secret Annex.

Subject

The Haagsche Post was a weekly opinion magazine read in the Secret Annex. The magazine, founded in 1914, was edited by the Jewish Samuel Frederik van Oss. This was the reason the paper came under German control during the occupation.[1]

In 1933, the Haagsche Post was declared a banned magazine in Germany.[2] On 29 January 1944, the Haagsche Post published an article entitled 'Will the invasion also come to the Netherlands?'.[3] This article was accompanied by a map depicting the effects inundation would have on the Netherlands. Anne Frank writes in her diary about this map and the fuss it caused, incidentally without mentioning the magazine by name.[4] Victor Kugler brought the Haagsche Post 'every week' for the people in hiding in the spring of 1944.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Haagse Post.
  2. ^ Hans Mulder, Een grote laars, een plompe voet. Nederland en de Nazi’s in spotprenten en karikatuur 1933 – 1945, Amsterdam/Brussel: Thomas Rap, 1985, p. 33.
  3. ^ 'Komt de invasie ook in Nederland?', Haagsche Post, 29 januari 1944 (via Delpher). De jaargangen 1940-1945 van Haagsche Post zijn integraal te raadplegen op Delpher, de website van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, met gedigitaliseerde historische Nederlandse kranten, boeken, tijdschriften en radiobulletins uit bibliotheken, musea en andere erfgoedinstellingen.
  4. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 3 February 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  5. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 18 April 1944, in: The Collected Works.