Buried by The Times: the Holocaust and America's most important newspaper

Abstract

Introduction: the last voice from the abyss Part I. 1933-41: 1. 'Not a Jewish problem': the publisher's perspective on the Nazis' rise and the refugee crisis 2. 'This here is Germany': reporting from the Berlin bureau 3. 'Worthy of France': the Vichy government's anti-semitic laws and concentration camps 4. 'A new life in Nazi-built ghettos': German domination of Poland, Rumania and the Baltic States Part II 1941-5: 5. 'To awaken the conscience of Christendom': pressure to publicize the first news of the extermination campaign 6. 'Amidst the advertisements on page 19': placement decisions and the role of the news editors 7. 'All Jews are not brothers': the publisher's battle with Zionists 8. 'The semitic question should be avoided': German atrocities and US Government propaganda 9. 'Final phase of supreme tragedy has begun': the War Refugee Board and the destruction of Hungary's Jews 10. 'Political prisoners, slave laborers and civilians of many nationalities': the liberation of the concentration camps 11. 'Lessons from the Hitler tragedy': the publisher and the aftermath of war Conclusion: 'the horrible story was not told'.