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Editors’ Pick

April 4, 2016

The Associated Press’s Faustian Bargain with Hitler’s Germany

It agreed to hire Nazi propagandists.

In the 1930s, the Nazi government began forcing news agencies to close their offices in Germany; by the end of 1941, the Associated Press (AP) was the only one still reporting from inside the Third Reich, and it continued to do so for the rest of the war. Philip Oltermann describes how this came to be so:

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