Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (often abbreviated to DAZ) was a German

Germany

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 newspaper that appeared between 1861 and 1945. It was associated with the Stinnes family, and supported right wing nationalist politics in the Weimar period

Weimar Republic

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, arguably contributing to the rise of Nazism

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Hugo Stinnes

Hugo Stinnes

-Life and career:Stinnes was born in Mülheim, in the Ruhr Valley, North German Confederation. His father was also named Hugo, and his grandfather Matthias Stinnes had founded a modest enterprise in Mülheim....

 took over the DAZ in 1920 in an effort to secure industrialist influence. Stinnes invested in the newspaper, and it enjoyed a short period of financial success. By 1930, however, it had declined and was suffering heavy losses.

After Stinnes' death, the Prussia

Prussia

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n government secretly bought the DAZ in 1925. Less than a year later, the Reich

Reich

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government took it over, but it was sold again when the affair came to light.