De Volkskrant
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De Volkskrant, stylized as de Volkskrant, is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. De Volkskrant had 322,934 active subscriptions in 2025 and is the third biggest newspaper in the Netherlands.
Former headquarters in Amsterdam-Oost
Current headquarters in Amsterdam-Centrum
Pillarisation
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Pillarisation is the vertical division of a society into separate groups, or "pillars", organised along religious, socio-economic, and ideological lines. The phenomenon is most closely associated with
De Volkskrant
…morning newspaper since 1921. Originally de Volkskrant was a Roman Catholic newspaper closely linked to the Catholic People's Party and the Catholic pillar. The paper temporarily ceased publication in 1941. On its re-founding in 1945, its office moved from Den Bosch to Amsterdam. It became a left-wing…
Poster of the Nederlandsche Unie, an anti-pillarisation group that was at first embraced by the German occupying administration but later banned in 1941