{"id":13862,"date":"2016-03-30T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13862"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:43:03","slug":"world-war-two-history-associated-press-willingly-cooperated-with-the-nazis-new-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/world-war-two-history-associated-press-willingly-cooperated-with-the-nazis-new-report-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"World War Two History: Associated Press Willingly Cooperated With the Nazis, New Report Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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News agency and Third Reich said to have made mutually beneficial deal, with AP providing countless photos for Nazi propaganda; AP denies collaboration<\/h2>\n

The Associated Press news agency willingly cooperated with Nazi Germany, submitting to the regime\u2019s restrictive rulings on the freedom of the press and providing it with images from its photo archives to be used in its anti-Semitic and anti-Western propaganda machine, a new report reveals.<\/p>\n

When Adolf Hitler\u2019s National Socialists rose to power in 1933, all international news agencies but the US-based AP were forced to leave Germany. The AP continued to operate in the Third Reich until 1941, when the United States joined World War II.<\/p>\n

According to German historian Harriet Scharnberg, the world\u2019s biggest news agency was only allowed to remain in Germany because it signed a deal with the regime.<\/p>\n

The news agency lost control over its copy by submitting itself to the Schriftleitergesetz<\/em>(editor\u2019s law), agreeing not to print any material \u201ccalculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home,\u201d she wrote in an article<\/a>published in the academic journal Studies in Contemporary History.<\/p>\n

Scharnberg\u2019s research was first reported by the UK-based Guardian newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the paper, the Nazis\u2019 so-called editor\u2019s law forced AP employees to contribute material for the Nazi party\u2019s propaganda division. One of the four photographers working for the company in the 1930s was Franz Roth, a member of the SS paramilitary unit\u2019s propaganda division. His pictures were handpicked by Hitler, the Guardian writes.<\/p>\n

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The AP\u2019s images appeared in many of the regime\u2019s propaganda publications. Most of the images in a pamphlet called \u201cJews in the US\u201d were provided by the AP. In a different publication entitled \u201cThe Subhuman,\u201d the AP provided the second-largest number of photographs, according to Scharnberg.<\/p>\n

It is possible to argue that the AP\u2019s agreement with the Nazis allowed the West a \u201cpeek into a repressive society that may otherwise have been entirely hidden from view,\u201d the Guardian writes. On the other hand, the deal allowed to Nazis to cover up their war crimes. The cooperation with the prestigious American news agency allowed Hitler to portray his \u201cwar of extermination as a conventional war,\u201d Scharnberg told the Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of printing pictures of the days-long Lviv pogroms with its thousands of Jewish victims, the American press was only supplied with photographs showing the victims of the Soviet police and \u2018brute\u2019 Red Army war criminals,\u201d Scharnberg, a historian at Halle\u2019s Martin Luther University, told the paper, citing one example of the agency\u2019s work helping the Nazis.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo that extent it is fair to say that these pictures played their part in disguising the true character of the war led by the Germans,\u201d she added. \u201cWhich events were made visible and which remained invisible in AP\u2019s supply of pictures followed German interests and the German narrative of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to the Guardian\u2019s report, the AP said it would research the matter but rejected the notion that it deliberately collaborated with the Nazis.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn accurate characterization is that the AP and other foreign news organizations were subjected to intense pressure from the Nazi regime from the year of Hitler\u2019s coming to power in 1932 until the AP\u2019s expulsion from Germany in 1941. AP management resisted the pressure while working to gather accurate, vital and objective news in a dark and dangerous time,\u201d the agency stated.<\/p>\n

Read the Original Article at Times of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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