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'''Trans-Ocean News Service (also Transocean News Service)''' was a wireless German news agency headquarter in [[Berlin, Germany]]. It was closed by the Allied occupation government after the German Capitulation in May 1945. |
'''Trans-Ocean News Service (also Transocean News Service)''' was a wireless German news agency headquarter in [[Berlin, Germany]]. It was closed by the Allied occupation government after the German Capitulation in May 1945. |
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The agency was founded in 1914 in response to [[Britain]]’s cutting of transatlantic cables to Germany during the [[World War I]]. Trans-ocean presented itself as an independent news agency and not an official government run institution like the Deutschland News Bureau. |
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The news agency became active in the the United States in August 1938 with the arrival of it's chief correspondent, Manfred Zapp from Germany. It maintained an office at 341 Madison Avenue, New York City. In the summer of 1941, before the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], the United States Government ordered the closure of Trans-ocean and the withdrawal of the German nationals connected with it. |
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During the German [[National Socialist]] period the news agency provided articles to small papers in [[South America]], [[Asia]] and some of the 178 [[German language]] papers in the [[United States]] for free or at a nominal rate. Trans-ocean was largely subsidized by the German government.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/investigationofu07unit#page/20/mode/2up/search/Zapp US House Committee on Un-American Activities, page 20]</ref> |
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Revision as of 23:15, 11 September 2011
Trans-Ocean News Service (also Transocean News Service) was a wireless German news agency headquarter in Berlin, Germany. It was closed by the Allied occupation government after the German Capitulation in May 1945.
The agency was founded in 1914 in response to Britain’s cutting of transatlantic cables to Germany during the World War I. Trans-ocean presented itself as an independent news agency and not an official government run institution like the Deutschland News Bureau.
The news agency became active in the the United States in August 1938 with the arrival of it's chief correspondent, Manfred Zapp from Germany. It maintained an office at 341 Madison Avenue, New York City. In the summer of 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Government ordered the closure of Trans-ocean and the withdrawal of the German nationals connected with it.
During the German National Socialist period the news agency provided articles to small papers in South America, Asia and some of the 178 German language papers in the United States for free or at a nominal rate. Trans-ocean was largely subsidized by the German government.[1]