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The U.S. and the Holocaust

The American Press in Germany

It wasn’t easy for journalists to report what was happening in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Aired 09/18/2022 | Rating TV-14

FromKen Burns

The U.S. and the Holocaust

The American Press in Germany

Clip: Episode 1 | 5m 43sVideo has Closed Captions

It wasn’t easy for journalists to report what was happening in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

It wasn’t easy for foreign correspondents to report what was really happening in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Sources were often too frightened to talk. Reporters were reluctant to quote witnesses by name for fear of betraying them to the secret police – called the Gestapo. But the best American journalists did write about what was going on, however much the Nazi government tried to hide it.

Aired 09/18/2022 | Rating TV-14

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