Germany's DuMont Media Group has become the first of the country's newspaper groups to publish an historical account of its own activities during the Nazi era.
The study of a dark age for press freedom is entitled M. DuMont Schauberg: A newspaper publisher's fight for independence under the Nazi dictatorship.
It focuses on the then head of the family-owned publishing company based in Cologne, Kurt Neven DuMont, a Nazi party member who - according to the book - "did not actively support Hitler's regime and indeed tried to help employees threatened by Nazi oppression".
But DuMont-run newspapers were gradually co-opted as the Third Reich established itself.
The DuMont group's current holdings include a number of prominent papers in western Germany and a stake in the Israeli daily Haaretz. It recently acquired titles from Mecom, the UK-based company run by David Montgomery. (Via Deutsche Welle)
