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snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:23 PM Jun 2016

Interesting historical fact: Associated Press entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler

Associated Press entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler's Nazi Germany in the 1930s, supplying American newspapers with material selected and produced by the Nazi party propaganda ministry. It was able to retain its access by entering into a mutually beneficial two-way cooperation with the Nazi regime.

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Associated Press was the only western news agency able to stay open in Nazi Germany, they continued operating until Germany declared war on the USA in 1941.

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This arrangement also enabled the Nazis to cover up some of its crimes, allowing the Nazis to portray a war of extermination as a conventional war; which events were made visible and which remained invisible in AP’s supply of pictures followed German interests and the German narrative of the war.[53][54]




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press




Like I said this is an interesting historical fact.





















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Interesting historical fact: Associated Press entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler (Original Post) snagglepuss Jun 2016 OP
Big suprise there warrprayer Jun 2016 #1
Associated Press: Stenographers to Power since 1846! Califonz Jun 2016 #2
MSM has alwalys had a fascist bent to it. GoldenThunder Jun 2016 #3

GoldenThunder

(300 posts)
3. MSM has alwalys had a fascist bent to it.
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:50 PM
Jun 2016

They were just waiting for a chance to get their freak on once again.

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