It was published by the subsidiary Europa-Verlag of the Nazi-controlled Franz Eher Nachfolger,[1] and had a circulation of about 40,000 copies.
[3] A competing newspaper in Norway was the Wacht im Norden, that was distributed free of charge to soldiers.
Due to a lack of competent editors from Germany, the Tromsø paper was not established before February 1941.
Oron Hale writes, however, that on a closer examination, the dissimilarities between the Norwegian paper and the German ones were small.
[8] Until June 1940, the Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen was subject of military censorship by the German propaganda department in Norway.