Het Parool
Page from the edition of 9 April 1941
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
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| Publisher | De Persgroep |
| Editor-in-chief | Ronald Ockhuysen |
| Associate editor | Kamilla Leupen |
| Staff writers | 73 |
| Founded | 1940 |
| Language | Dutch |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Circulation | 64,000 subscription; 20,000 street sales |
| Sister newspapers | Algemeen Dagblad |
| ISSN | 1389-2975 |
| Website | www |
Het Parool (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛt paːˈroːl]) is an Amsterdam-based daily newspaper. It was first published on 10 February 1941 as a resistance paper during the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940–1945). In English, its name means The Password or The Motto.
The paper was preceded by a stenciled newsletter which was started in May 1940 by Frans Goedhart. In late 1940, Wim van Norden joined the group of producers of the newsletter; Van Norden would later serve as director of the newspaper between 1945 and 1979.Jaap Nunes Vaz also became involved with the newspaper. In 1944, the paper, albeit illegal and vigorously persecuted, reached a circulation of approximately 100,000, and was distributed by the Dutch resistance. Other important contributors were Simon Carmiggelt and Max Nord, who lived with Van Norden and their families on the Reguliersgracht, in the headquarters of the paper, which was never discovered by the Nazis.
Numerous staff were apprehended and killed by the Germans and their Dutch collaborators. Alphons Meeuwis who distributed the paper was arrested in 1941 and sent to various camps. Nunes Vaz was arrested by the Gestapo on 25 October 1942 and sent to Sobibor concentration camp.
After the war Het Parool quickly became one of the leading, largest newspapers in the Netherlands, partly because much of the population appreciated it for being the most prolific resistance paper, and partly because newspapers which had collaborated with the German occupier were banned from publication.
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