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What the AP’s Collaboration With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News
Tablet Magazine ^ | June 05, 2017 | Matti Friedman

Posted on 05/16/2021 1:18:46 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

Did the Associated Press, the venerable American agency that is one of the world’s biggest news providers, collaborate with the Nazis during World War II? A report and new counter-report on this subject offer a few striking lessons—not just for students of history but for anyone concerned with the way news coverage shapes our perception right now.

A paper last year by the German historian Harriet Scharnberg titled “The A and P of Propaganda” and published in Studies in Contemporary History makes the case that beginning in the mid-1930s, the AP’s photo office in Germany made compromise after compromise to keep reporting under Nazi rule, obeying successive orders from the Hitler regime until it ended up as a Nazi information arm in all but name. Remaining in Berlin after its competitors departed in 1935 allowed the AP to serve as a “key channel” for German propaganda, she wrote, an arrangement the New York-based agency was eager to preserve—even if it meant removing all of its Jewish photographers in keeping with Nazi race laws, for example, and even if it meant issuing a statement to the official SS magazine swearing that the photo bureau was pure Aryan.

In the Nazi years, according to Scharnberg, the AP was selling German images in the United States and selling images from the United States in Germany, allowing photographs of American Jews and others to be used in some of the vilest racial propaganda produced by the Nazi state. The AP was, for example, the “leading supplier” of images for a propaganda book called The Jews in the USA, and in third place among suppliers of photos for the book The Subhuman.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ap; associatedpress; nazi; propaganda
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Published June 5, 2017

"Is it better to cooperate with dictatorships and authoritarian regimes and tell half the story with hands tied—or not tell the story at all"?

For years my frequent comment about AP follows:

"AP = Always Propaganda"

I feel somewhat vindicated after reading this.

1 posted on 05/16/2021 1:18:46 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.


2 posted on 05/16/2021 1:23:28 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Texas Fossil
they weren't the first anti American newspaper...
3 posted on 05/16/2021 1:27:03 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Texas Fossil
So not only is the destructive AP in cahoots with Hamas terrorists today, they were even in bed with Hitler's Nazis back in the day as well. Figures.
4 posted on 05/16/2021 1:36:21 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Texas Fossil; conservatism_IS_compassion

Associated Propaganda

(ping to a great FReeper)


5 posted on 05/16/2021 1:38:22 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: max americana

WOW! I didn’t know the Babylon Bee existed back then. That is YUGE and series. Thanks max americana. (1st time I’ve seen that)


6 posted on 05/16/2021 1:41:46 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Texas Fossil

Define “News”...


7 posted on 05/16/2021 1:41:57 PM PDT by Paladin2 (.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Absolutely Correct.

The “Press” has become the “Press-titutes”, they do it (Propaganda) for the money.


8 posted on 05/16/2021 1:42:05 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: SmokingJoe
the parallel is staggering.
9 posted on 05/16/2021 1:42:45 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: max americana

Is this real?!?!
Holy Cow!


10 posted on 05/16/2021 1:43:49 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: max americana

They are old, but even though largely true, that is still fake news. Smile.


11 posted on 05/16/2021 1:44:42 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Paladin2

Current events described with some element of truthfulness.


12 posted on 05/16/2021 1:46:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Years ago I read a book by an American journalist about reporting from Germany and what he had to go through and the propaganda he had to report. He ended getting some truth out. I don’t remember how long he stayed, what his name was or the book title.


13 posted on 05/16/2021 1:46:48 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Texas Fossil

The New York Times was very accommodating to the Nazis as well in the 30’s.


14 posted on 05/16/2021 1:47:01 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Freedom56v2; max americana

There “coverage” (or lack thereof) of Germany’s activities during WWII would make me believe they are capable of about anything :(


15 posted on 05/16/2021 1:47:21 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Like with Hamas, right?


16 posted on 05/16/2021 1:47:54 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe w.v,w)
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To: max americana

Walter Duranty


17 posted on 05/16/2021 1:48:29 PM PDT by ex91B10 (Just because you can doesn't mean you should. )
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To: Texas Fossil

bookmark


18 posted on 05/16/2021 1:52:28 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: PGalt

the image was around since Iraq War 2004 when the NYT kept “happily” reporting how many GI’s died during our occupation of Baghdad and kept bitching about Bush stateside...


19 posted on 05/16/2021 1:55:53 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Freedom56v2

If you can rewind back to 2003 Iraq War, who were the biggest cheerleaders of how we should go home because we are “losing anyways”. T

The AP..


20 posted on 05/16/2021 1:59:48 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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