Neither article says anything about atrocities against Jews, or anyone else for that matter -- unless you count the words "intensive Nazi measures" as adequate to describe the beginnings of the Holocaust.
fso301: "Just by reading what Homer posts, you should have been seeing one or two such reports per month."
Sure, one or two articles with very vague references to something the Nazis were doing -- nothing even remotely indicating the scale or horror of those events.
fso301: "Then, in light of those times when suffering was universal throughout Europe, imagine the level to which something had to rise before being carried by foreign press."
Think about it: who other than various church organizations really understood what the Nazis were doing, and could have alerted the world to it?
Yes, I understand why they didn't, but let's not pretend something happened which in fact didn't.
The Final Solution did not begin until 1942. At this point in time, the Greek famine was at it's peak and Greeks were suffering arguably worse than Jews but how much do you hear about mass starvation in Greece during the winter famine of 41-42? How many people even know about the Greek famine?
Sure, one or two articles with very vague references to something the Nazis were doing -- nothing even remotely indicating the scale or horror of those events.
By "those events", I assume you meant the Final Solution but that didn't begin until 1942. Yes, mass execution of Jews by the Einsatzgruppen were taking place in the East but there was really no means of getting the word out about events in the East at this point.
Think about it: who other than various church organizations really understood what the Nazis were doing, and could have alerted the world to it?
Certainly the Communists. As far as churches go, the decentralized Protestants really didn't have a mechanism of getting the word out whereas the Catholics did.
Yes, I understand why they didn't, but let's not pretend something happened which in fact didn't.
What are you getting at?