De Waarheid (literally 'The Truth') was the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Netherlands. Their name is also on the logo.
History It originated in 1940 under the German occupation as a resistance paper, the day after general H.G. Winkelman had forbidden publication of the earlier Communist Volksdagblad. The party decided on May 15, 1940, to continue the Volksdagblad illegally under the name De Waarheid. The first months were spent setting up a nationwide network of 'handout points' ('stencilposten'), the main articles would be written centrally, whereas the different 'handout points' added localized articles. These local versions sometimes were published under different names as 'De vonk' ('The spark') and 'Het noorderlicht' ('The northern light').
In the last decades it became a more independent left wing newspaper but circulation continued to drop and the paper was discontinued on 28 April 1990.Dutch Communist Daily Newspaper, De Waarheid 1945-1990 from MMF publications. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
Circulation figures 1945 (September): 341.550 1947: 150.000 1948: 135.000 1950: 113.000 1955: 50.000 1960: 29.000 1966: 22.000 1968: 21.200 1970: 20.000 1975: 22.000 1980: 26.000 1985: 12.000 1988: 9.000 1990: 6.000:nl:Jan van der Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers (Amsterdam, 2005)
Editors Anthoon Johan Koejemans 1945–1948 Fred SchoonenbergPaul de Groot 1948–1949 Fred SchoonenbergFriedl Baruch 1949–1953 Marcus Bakker 1953–1958 Joop Wolff 1958–1978 Gijs Schreuders 1978–1982 Bart Schmidt 1982–1983 Constant Vecht 1983–1986 Paul Wouters 1986–1988 Frank Biesboer 1988–1990
References
External links De Waarheid from 20 September 1943 from Historische Kranten website. Retrieved 14 April 2008.