BERLIN CALENDAR: BUILDING THE HEADLINE - FIRST POST-WW2 EDITION OF THE "BERLINER ZEITUNG"
Today in Berlin: 21 May, 1945
What do you need most once the cannons go silent and life as it was can begin to recommence? Next to the obvious staples? Information. News about what is happening, whom to contact and what is even there. That is why in 1945 one of the paramount tasks of the new Berlin administration was to launch newspapers again. Their less overt aim? To spread new ideology: this time Communism.
On this day in 1945 Berliners, who had just emerged from the hell of the last battle for the city, could buy the first edition of a soon-to-be popular daily published in Berlin after the end of the Second World War…