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'' (Germany's largest opinion-oriented newspaper), and Berlin's '' Der Tagesspiegel ''.

Established by Georg Von Holtzbrinck in 1948 , the group first began as a German Book Club . In the 1960s , it purchased Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag , two German publishing companies. In 1985 , it acquired the book division of Holt, naming it the Henry Holt Book Company . One year later, the company acquired '' Scientific American '' Magazine for $52.6 million. In 1994 , it purchased a Majority Interest in Farrar, Straus & Giroux from retiring Roger W. Straus, Jr. , and just one year later, purchased a 70% majority interest in The Macmillan Group .

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