The Death Bell was a fiercely antisemitic propaganda magazine that appeared for only a few months in 1940. Due to its short publication period and small circulation, original copies are extremely scarce today. Most were destroyed during or after the war, making surviving individual issues rare.

Number 9 ("1st year no. 9") belongs to the final phase of the publication. Shortly after this number The Death Bell banned by the German occupiers, which abruptly halted publication.

Although The Death Bell Although it was itself pro-German and fiercely antisemitic, the German authorities found the magazine too impetuous and uncontrolled. Its tone and content caused social unrest, and its authors did not adhere to the propaganda line the occupying forces themselves wanted to establish.

The German occupying forces wanted anti-Semitic propaganda to be spread exclusively through their own controlled channels (such as Der Stürmer, Völkischer Beobachter and later NSB publications).

An independent, uncontrolled Dutch initiative as The Death Bell didn't fit in there.

As a result, the magazine was officially banned by the German occupiers in November 1940, after which publication was completely halted.