Hello.
I wanted to find what (if anything) was said in German press when Germany declared the war on Soviet Union - so I'm talking a newspaper from June 22 1941 or maybe June 23 if it worked with 1 day lag.
I can find some US, British or Soviet articles - but nothing from the German side and I'm completely lost even where to start.
Thanks in advance.
Not a historian but I work at a German newspaper. We have a department called “Leserservice” (Readers’ Service) who can make digital and physical copies of archived newspapers. But it’s a regional newspaper so I’m not too sure what was on the front.
But you could try reaching out to various national newspapers in Germany, asking if it’s possible to get a copy. It costs money though (I think around 35€ for a copy and then you can choose different paper and stuff as well). Not sure how much a digital copy costs.
This, for example, is the archive website for the Süddeutsche Zeitung: https://www.sz-archiv.de/ ETA: The first publication of the SZ was 6th October 1945 so you won’t find anything from the beginning of the war.
Frankfurter Allgemein: https://fazarchiv.faz.net/
Edit 2: Fun fact! There are no current national newspapers that were operating at the time the Second World War broke out. Here’s a list of historical newspapers that no longer print (only available in German, sorry): https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_historischer_Zeitungen_in_Deutschland
List of current regional newspapers (also available in English but the German page has more detail): https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Zeitungen
You can find lots of digitized German newspapers here (although not all of them spanning up to WW2): https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper
You can search according to newspaper, place of publication or date.
Using some of the newspaper names listed in the reply - https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/x8x180/is_it_possible_to_find_a_digital_copy_of_a_german/inkspkg/ - from /u/grumpyhobnob, a Worldcat search shows that the German Historical Institute in Washington DC has some of them - https://www.ghi-dc.org. If you are affiliated with a college or university you may be able to request article scans through Interlibrary Loan. For commonly used articles like what you are looking for they may already have some available.