BOMBSHELL: Associated Press ‘willingly cooperated’ with Nazis to crush freedom of the press just as they suppress narrative questioning Big Pharma today
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Source: Natural News, by J. D. Heyes
During the rise of Nazi Germany, The Associated Press (AP) willingly cooperated with Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, submitting to dramatic restrictions on freedom of the press and providing the regime with images from the news service’s photo archives so they could be used in anti-Semitic and anti-Western propaganda, according to a new report.
As noted by the Times of Israel, when Hitler’s National Socialists rose to power in 1933, every international news agency save the U.S.-based AP, which was founded in 1846, was ordered to leave Germany; the AP continued to operate in Nazi Germany until 1941, when America declared war on the Axis following Japan’s “surprise attack” on Pearl Harbor.
According to German historian Harriet Scharnberg, what is now the world’s largest news organization was only permitted to remain in Germany because it agreed to a deal with the Nazi regime.
Photos used in anti-Jewish ‘subhuman’ propaganda pamphlets
In doing so, the AP lost control over its own copy by submitting to the Schriftleitergesetz or “Editor’s Law.” The news agency agreed not to publish any material “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home,” she wrote in a piece for the academic journal Studies in Contemporary History. Her research was first reported by the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
According to The Guardian, the Nazi Editor’s Law forced AP employees to contribute material for the National Socialist Party’s propaganda machine, which Hitler entrusted to his longtime friend and confidant Joseph Goebbels. One of four photographers who worked for the AP in the 1930s was Franz Roth, a member of the SS paramilitary unit’s propaganda division, whose photos were handpicked by the Nazi leader himself.
The AP’s photos went on to appear in a number of Nazi regime propaganda publications, including a 52-page SS pamphlet called The Subhuman. That said, most of the AP photos appeared in a separate pamphlet titled Jews in the U.S.; the former pamphlet carried the second-highest number of AP photos, The Guardian reported.
Some have speculated that the AP agreed to the Nazi deal in order to provide the West a “peek into a repressive society that may otherwise have been entirely hidden from view,” the paper reported. But alternately, the deal also gave the Nazis a means of covering up their war crimes, say others.
In an interview with The Guardian, Scharnberg said that the cooperation with a prestigious American news agency gave Hitler a platform to portray his “war of extermination as a conventional war.”
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“Instead 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 ‘brute’ Red Army war criminals,” Scharnberg, a historian at Halle’s Martin Luther University, told the paper, in reference to just one example of the AP aiding the Nazi regime.
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