Newspaper Boulevard Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal

This used to be the newspaper boulevard of Amsterdam, with the ‘Algemeen Handelsblad’ at number 240 and the daily ‘De Telegraaf’ in the high building at number 225. This was also where the German-language newspaper ‘Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden’ was printed during the war. All Dutch newspapers were under strict German censorship, so numerous underground newspaper were set up to report the real news.

In the Resistance Museum, we can see what Amsterdam window cleaner Jan Wijnbergen had to say: “The illegal papers reported news about assaults and why those assaults were committed. This was important to ensure that public opinion did not turn against the resistance movement, because the German propaganda machines portrayed those who committed the assaults as nothing more than criminals.”

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• Text: tmatic.travel
• Photos: TracesofWar