Verboten Zeitung 1933

Scan of front (and only) page of Das Andere Deutschland, March 11, 1933, announcing the weekly newspaper's ban by the provincial criminal police president in Berlin, on the grounds of "public security and order." The ban took place under the authority of the Reichstag Fire Decree (Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutze von Volk und Staat) and, though the stated duration of the paper's ban was three months, subsequent measures in the Nazis' consolidation of power cast doubt as to whether it ever appeared again.

Translation:

THE OTHER GERMANY
FOR DECIDED REPUBLICAN POLITICS / SERVING NO PARTY
Berlin, Saturday, 11 March 1933

The Chief of Police State Criminal Police Office

Berlin, 3 March 1933

FORBIDDEN

On the basis of §1 of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State of 28 February 1933, I forbid in the interest of public security and order the publication of the weekly newspaper

"The Other Germany"

for a period of 3 months.

Offences are punishable under §4 of the Ordinance.

I.V. signed: [Rudolf] Diels

At the publishing house "The Other Germany" Berlin W 57

For correct copy:
signed, Dommitzsch
Chancellery clerk.

Of note is the signature of Rudolf Diels. Das Andere Deutschland was shut down roughly one month prior to Diels becoming chief of the Gestapo; at this time he was head of the Prussian political police in Berlin.