A German historian has unearthed an extremely troubling formal relationship between the Associated Press (AP) and the Nazi party in the 1930’s, in which propaganda produced by the Hitler regime was supplied to American newspapers in exchange for continued access to Germany
After the Nazi party came to power in 1933, they began a campaign of strict image control, which encompassed the banning of almost all international media within Germany. By 1935 most media outlets were forced to close their German bureaus after persistent persecution due to their continued employment of Jews within their agencies.
The New York-based AP was the only international media outlet that was able to maintain operations under the Nazi regime, continuing to operate until the U.S. entered World War II in 1941. This created a paradigm in which the AP became virtually the sole hub of information about Nazi Germany being disseminated to the rest of the world.
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