During the first world war, Jacobsohn managed to publish his newspaper regularly despite difficult circumstances. Since August 1914, each issue opened with a political editorial that represented a patriotic point of view. In November 1915, the journalist Robert Breuer, under the pseudonym "Cunctator", started a series of articles that dealt critically with the politics of the German government and the political state of the country. The series culminated in the article "The crisis of capitalism", ending with the conclusion that only the international proletariat can overcome the nationally disguised capitalism.