Die Welt

(The World), a major daily bourgeois news- paper. It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 and is published in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. It is one of the most reactionary newspapers. In 1972 its total circula- tion was 289,000 copies. The newspaper belongs to the A. Springer concern. Die Welt conducts a slanderous cam- paign against the German Democratic Republic and spreads nationalistic and militaristic propaganda in the interests of the monopolistic bourgeoisie of the Federal Republic of Germany.