The paper had a moderate social democratic orientation and is remembered as a leading anti-Nazi American publication in the German language during the years of World War II.
[1] The bulk of the paper's readers were inherited from that recently defunct long-running publication.
[3] The paper was published by a company known as the Progressive Publishing Association, Inc.[2] The Neue Volkszeitung pursued a moderate social democratic political line that stood in opposition both to Nazism and Communism.
[2] Content included political news from Germany and the United States, coverage of the international labor movement, sports news, a women's section, travel reports, and coverage of theater and the arts.
[2] Neue Volkszeitung continued publication until the first week of August 1949.