After the National Socialists came into power on January 30, 1933, a ban of the newspaper was expected. In the night of the Reichstag fire from February 27 to 28 1933, Ossietzky and some of his coworkers were arrested. After Hellmut von Gerlach had fled, Walther Karsch became the head editor of the paper. Karsch was later known as one of the founders of the "Berliner Tagesspiegel". The last issue of the newspaper was printed on March 14, 1933, but not delivered anymore. Therefore, the last issue that was both printed and delivered was from March 7, 1933 (Nr. 10). It ended with this defiant statement: "Denn der Geist setzt sich doch durch" (English: "The mind prevails anyway").