http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg
The Associated Press
news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the
1930s, supplying American newspapers with material directly produced and
selected by the Nazi propaganda ministry, archive material unearthed by
a German historian has revealed.
When the Nazi party seized power in Germany in 1933, one of its first
objectives was to bring into line not just the national press, but
international media too. The Guardian was banned within a year,
and by 1935 even bigger British-American agencies such as Keystone and
Wide World Photos were forced to close their bureaus after coming under
attack for employing Jewish journalists.
Associated Press, which has described itself as the “marine corps of
journalism” (“always the first in and the last out”) was the only
western news agency able to stay open in Hitler’s Germany,
continuing to operate until the US entered the war in 1941. It thus
found itself in the presumably profitable situation of being the prime
channel for news reports and pictures out of the totalitarian state.
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