''Argentinisches Tageblatt'' () is a German-language
weekly newspaper
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published every Friday in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
, Argentina.
History
The newspaper was founded by a
Swiss immigrant from
Bern
german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese
, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
, website ...
, Johann Alemann, and his son, Moritz, in 1878. It was first published as the ''Argentinisches Wochenblatt''. Together with his other sons, Theodor and Ernst, Alemann then inaugurated a
daily newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...
, ''Argentinisches Tageblatt'', in 1889. The weekly ''Wochenblatt'' appeared as a weekend section of the newspaper until 1967. In 1981, despite its name, the ''Argentinisches Tageblatt'' was changed to a weekly newspaper.
The ''Argentinisches Tageblatt'' was one of the many newspapers banned by the
Nazis
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during the period of the
Third Reich
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
. Possession of the paper was forbidden throughout the territory of the Third Reich while
Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
was in power, due to the
progressive stance adopted by editor-in-chief
Ernesto Alemann
Ernesto Alemann (1893–1982) was the son of Swiss immigrants to Argentina. For several decades he was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the family newspaper ''Argentinisches Tageblatt'', printed in German, in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( o ...
.
After the
military coup of 1976 the publication supported the new authorities. An editorial called for "night and fog actions" in which opponents of the regime should disappear.
Horacio Verbitsky
Horacio Verbitsky (born February 11, 1942) is an Argentine investigative journalist and author with a history as a leftist guerrilla in the Montoneros. In the early 1990s, he reported on a series corruption scandals in the administration of Presi ...
:
El país: Genocidios
', Página/12, 2012-06-03., the son of the publisher, was appointed minister for economy by the military and was thus part of the regime, under which 30,000 people died between 1976 and 1983.
Roberto Alemann has been running the ''Tageblatt'' since the death of Ernesto Alemann in 1982.
References
;Sources
* Sebastian Schöpp: ''Das 'Argentinische Tageblatt' 1933 bis 1945. Ein Forum der antinationalsozialistischen Emigration''. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin, 1996, .
* Peter Bussemeyer: ''50 Jahre Argentinisches Tageblatt. Werden und Aufstieg einer Auslanddeutschen Zeitung''. Buenos Aires, 1939.
;Footnotes
External links
Official website
European-Argentine culture in Buenos Aires
Daily newspapers published in Argentina
German-language newspapers published in South America
Publications established in 1878
Argentina–Germany relations
German-Argentine culture
Mass media in Buenos Aires
Swiss Argentine
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