[8] According to a 1989 interview with Wandel, the decision to launch Deutsche Volkszeitung had been taken during a conversation between Joseph Stalin and German communist leaders just a few days earlier.

[9] During this period Deutsche Volkszeitung was the sole newspaper published in the Soviet occupation zone not subject to SMAD censorship.

[11] In the summer of 1945 Deutsche Volkszeitung ran a number of articles about anti-fascist resistance in the concentration camps during the war.

[12] An article in the 5 August 1945 issue of the newspaper claimed that Siemens had produced and installed the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Siemens Chairman Wolf-Dietrich von Witzleben [de] then responded by writing to Lewis Lyne, Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin, asking him to take action against the newspaper.