Beyond Belief The American Press And The Coming Of The Holocaust, 1933- 1945

by Lipstadt, Deborah E.

• ISBN13: 9780029191613
• ISBN10: 0029191610
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-02-08
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

This most complete study to date of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a twelve-year period.

Author Biography

Deborah Lipstadt, author of The Eichmann Trial (2011), History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (2005), and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-45 (1986), occupies the Dorot Chair in Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Shaping the News	p. 1
Laying the Foundation
Dateline Berlin: Covering the Nazi Whirlwind	p. 13
Making Meaning of Events	p. 40
The Olympic Games: Germany Triumphant	p. 63
1938: From Anschluss to Kristallnacht	p. 86
Barring the Gates to Children and Refugee Ships	p. 112
Fifth-Column Fears	p. 121
The Final Solution
Deportation to Annihilation: The First Reports	p. 135
Official Confirmation	p. 159
Reluctant Rescuers	p. 197
Witness to the Persecution	p. 218
Against Belief	p. 240
Notes	p. 279
Index	p. 359
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