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The Wochenpost was an East German weekly. It was founded in 1953, and circulation peaked at over one million copies per issue from 1971 to the German reunification. The academic Deirdre Byrnes writes that the paper was "one of the most influential" publications in East Germany. Its highest circulation was around 1.2 million copies, making the paper the most popular weekly in East Germany. Wochenpost considered a paper for intellectuals. The paper continued to be published after German reunification until it ceased publication in late December 1996.

History
The paper published its first issue on 22 or 23 December 1953, around Christmas. Wochenpost was not an opposition paper; the journalist , who worked at the paper for many years, noted that it was "no more opportunistic than its readers". By 1994 it was selling around 100,000 copies per week. The Independent compared the paper to Die Zeit. The paper was struggling by 1996 and ceased publication in late December. ==References==
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