Newshawks in Berlin

The Associated Press and Nazi Germany

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Pub Date Mar 05 2024 | Archive Date Jun 12 2024

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After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America’s most important source for foreign news, but to continue reporting under the Nazi regime the agency made both journalistic and moral compromises. Its reporters and photographers in Berlin endured onerous censorship, complied with anti-Semitic edicts, and faced accusations of spreading pro-Nazi propaganda. Yet despite restrictions, pressures, and concessions, AP’s Berlin “newshawks” provided more than a thousand U.S. newspapers with extensive coverage of the Nazi campaigns to conquer Europe and annihilate the continent’s Jews.

Newshawks in Berlin reveals how the Associated Press covered Nazi Germany from its earliest days through the aftermath of World War II. Larry Heinzerling and Randy Herschaft accessed previously classified government documents; plumbed diary entries, letters, and memos; and reviewed thousands of published stories and photos to examine what the AP reported and what it left out. Their research uncovers fierce internal debates about how to report in a dictatorship, and it reveals decisions that sometimes prioritized business ambitions over journalistic ethics. The book also documents the AP’s coverage of the Holocaust and its unveiling. Featuring comprehensive research and a memorable cast of characters, this book illuminates how the dilemmas of reporting on Nazi Germany remain familiar for journalists reporting on authoritarian regimes today.

After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America’s most important...


Advance Praise

"Well researched and cogently argued, Newshawks in Berlin provides a compelling account of the challenges and compromises the Associated Press had to make when covering the Third Reich."

— Steven Casey, author of The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan

"Newshawks in Berlin reveals how the Associated Press operated in Nazi Germany, and how Nazi officials infused propaganda into some of AP’s news coverage. Filled with surprises and rich in detail, a well-written, inside account of the tension between ethics and professional opportunism. Very relevant to totalitarian regimes today."

— Richard Breitman, author of The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

"Faced with the task of investigating the controversial record of the AP’s Berlin bureau in the Nazi era, the authors resisted any rush to judgment. Instead, they let the often-ambiguous evidence speak for itself. The result is a meticulously researched account that exemplifies the virtues of old-fashioned journalistic fairness."

— Andrew Nagorski, author of Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power

"Well researched and cogently argued, Newshawks in Berlin provides a compelling account of the challenges and compromises the Associated Press had to make when covering the Third Reich."

— Steven...


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ISBN 9780231217170
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PAGES 312

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An interesting nonfiction book about how the American press gave into reporting what the Nazis wanted, and how some reporters fought to tell the truths the Nazis didn’t want them to tell.

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