Paul Nikolaus Cossmann edited the magazine. It became a mouthpiece of annexationist circles in World War I and led a vicious campaign in support of the stab-in-the-back legend after the German defeat in 1918. Cossmann was born as a Jew and died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. He tried to mediate between anti-Semites and Jews. How could Cossmann ever imagine that anti-Semites, people with hardened prejudices, would ever be willing to modify their views in a dialogue with Jews who rejected anti-Semitism but were willing to consider its arguments?

The magazine also waged a relentless campaign against the Weimar Republic, which it blindly associated with the hated Treaty of Versailles and certainly helped prepare the ground for the Nazis.