Der Spiegel

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John Seymour Chaloner

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Type	magazine
Founder(s)	John Seymour Chaloner
Founded	1947-01-04
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Der Spiegel is a German language publication which has published various important stories including the first exposes of both the Bilderberg and Le Cercle.

Nazi networks

The first edition of Der Spiegel was published on Saturday, 4 January 1947. Its release was initiated and sponsored by the British occupational administration. Around 30 editors, employees and important informants from the NSDAP or spooks from the SD were attached to Spiegel in the 1950s and 1960s, a networks with a strong influence on the contents of the magazine, not random constellations. Two SS officers, Horst Mahnke and Georg Wolff, became departmental heads and the former Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels was allowed to write an apologetic series. The early Spiegel ran promotion for the Organization Gehlen and their old comrades from the Reich Criminal Police.Mahnke was known to be close to the BND

Funding

In 2019, Der Spiegel received a donation of over $2.5M from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Important stories

In October 1955, Der Spiegel published the first known story about the Bilderberg meeting, publishing many names of attendees, and even terming it a "conspiracy" (in quotes). This was probably the most detailed report in the commercially-controlled media for over 50 years.

In 1980, Der Spiegel published information about Le Cercle. It printed the Langemann Papers after they were published in Konkret.

On May 9, 2017, Der Spiegel reported that federal prosecutors had arrested 'Maximilian T.', the second German soldier accused of plotting to commit the 2017 Refugee False Flag‎ attack.

In 2006, Der Spiegel reported that at least 40 percent of the information in a daily newspaper comes from PR agencies or from the marketing centers of companies, authorities and associations. Often the "news" comes along as supposed studies and is no longer perceived as PR.

Falsification

RT wrote in December 2018 that {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Der Spiegel |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Robert Bridge|+sep=, |Has text=“This week, Der Spiegel, the German news weekly, was forced to admit that one of its former star reporters, the award-winning Claas Relotius, “falsified his articles on a grand scale.”” |Is about=Der Spiegel,Claas Relotius, fake news|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=22 December 2018 |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL= }}“This week, Der Spiegel, the German news weekly, was forced to admit that one of its former star reporters, the award-winning Claas Relotius, “falsified his articles on a grand scale.””

Academic purge

In May 2023, Spiegel advocated that the Covid-dissident Sucharit Bhakdi should be stripped of the title of professor. The magazine also advocated for a purge of academics who perpetuated "conspiracy theories", and specifically mentioned that this should happen to Michael Meyen, Patrik Baab and Ulrike Guérot, three other dissidents or critical academics in different areas. The article was written anonymously by Spiegel-editor Lisa Duhm.

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