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| A German motorcycle rider talking with a Dutch peasant woman, at an unknown location in Holland, May 24, 1940. AP. |
Associated Press willingly cooperated with the Nazis, new report shows. (ToI).
News agency and Third Reich said to have made mutually beneficial deal, with AP providing countless photos for Nazi propaganda; AP denies collaboration.
The Associated Press news agency willingly cooperated with Nazi Germany, submitting to the regime’s 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.
According to German historian Harriet
Scharnberg, the world’s biggest news agency was only allowed to remain
in Germany because it signed a deal with the regime.
The news agency lost control over its copy by submitting itself to the Schriftleitergesetz
(editor’s law), agreeing not to print any material “calculated to
weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home,” she wrote in an article published in the academic journal Studies in Contemporary History.
Scharnberg’s research was first reported by the UK-based Guardian newspaper.
The AP’s images appeared in many of the regime’s propaganda publications. Most of the images in a pamphlet called “Jews in the US” were provided by the AP. Hmmm......."Wir haben es nicht gewusst". Read the full story here.
The AP’s images appeared in many of the regime’s propaganda publications. Most of the images in a pamphlet called “Jews in the US” were provided by the AP. Hmmm......."Wir haben es nicht gewusst". Read the full story here.
