Language:
German
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
62,1 (2014) 25-48
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Periodicals
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jews Periodicals
Abstract:
Discusses how American and British newspapers reported on the most important acts of violence perpetrated against Jews in Berlin between 1918-38, such as the “Scheunenviertel Pogrom” of 1923, the “Kurfürstendammkrawalle” of 1931, the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the clashes of July 1935 and June 1938, and the “Kristallnacht" pogrom of 1938. Focuses mainly on the "Times" of London, the "Manchester Guardian", and the "New York Times". States that the correspondents had to cope with either lack of information or being fed false information, accreditation denial, threats and expulsions. States that before the Nazis came to power, the significance of the antisemitic actions in Berlin were underrated by the newspapers. After Hitler's seizure of power, they addressed antisemitism more frequently, but it was only in 1938 that the journalists started to recognize that the attacks on the Jews were warning signals for an impending genocide.
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