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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"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.
Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
Associated Propaganda
(ping to a great FReeper)
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)
Define “News”...
Absolutely Correct.
The “Press” has become the “Press-titutes”, they do it (Propaganda) for the money.
Is this real?!?!
Holy Cow!
They are old, but even though largely true, that is still fake news. Smile.
Current events described with some element of truthfulness.
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.
The New York Times was very accommodating to the Nazis as well in the 30’s.
There “coverage” (or lack thereof) of Germany’s activities during WWII would make me believe they are capable of about anything :(
Like with Hamas, right?
Walter Duranty
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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...
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..
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