During the Weimar period, Paul Nikolaus Cossmann published a staunchly nationalist campaign sheet, opposed to democracy, the Jews – and the Nazis. This is only surprising at first glance.
From
Wolfgang Gorl
In the 1920s, Paul Nikolaus Cossmann was one of the most influential journalists in Bavaria. He is the editor of South German monthly magazines, a cultural magazine founded in Munich in 1904, whose initially partly liberal, partly Bavarian-conservative spirit has given way to an aggressive, anti-democratic nationalism. In addition, Cossmann, as publishing director of Knorr & Hirth, determines the course of the Munich Latest News, the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in southern Germany. Above all, however, he is a tireless advocate of the stab in the back legend, according to which “homelandless” fellows, i.e. social democrats, communists, trade unionists and Jews, weakened the morale of the glorious German troops to such an extent that military defeat in the First World War became inevitable.