German Jews outraged with Nazi-era newspaper reprint

Publisher Peter McGeehad an idea: reprinting old newspapers issues of historical events, with commentary. In Germany, he called his project "Zeitungszeugen" and included copies of issues from January 30, 1933 - when Hitler rose to power.

Times Magazine reports that "the first issue of the series includes not only a reprint of Der Angriff — whose editor and most strident columnist was propaganda chief Josef Goebbels — but also the communist paper Der Kämpfer and the more moderate Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. The facsimiles are bound inside pages of commentary and analysis intended to give them context. "

The project is highly controversial. "Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, is unconvinced by that argument. "As a survivor of the Shoah, these texts are much more to me than just interesting historical sources. They are part of the horrible reality that I managed to escape. Millions of other Jewish people weren't so lucky," Knobloch said in a statement to TIME."

""I'm highly dubious about this project," Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council, told Reuters"

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