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First World War for the German troops on the Western Front in France Liller War Newspaper - a selection from issues 1-40 294 pages, illustrated, linen-bound Liller War Newspaper: • Timeframe: It appeared from December 8, 1914 to September 27, 1918. • Place: It was printed in the occupied French Lille for the troops of the German 6th Army. • Scope: There were a total of 459 issues, published twice weekly. • Circulation: The circulation reached up to 110,000 copies at times. Content and special features • Editorship: The editor-in-chief was the writer Paul Oskar Höcker. • Staff: The newspaper was especially known for the drawings and caricatures by the artist Karl Arnold. • Special issues: There were insertions such as the “War Leaflets” and special booklets like the “Lustige Büchel.” The Liller War Newspaper balanced, as one of the best-known German front newspapers in the First World War, on a narrow line between entertaining home-front illusion and targeted military propaganda.

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