But the news organization, which provided photos used in many American newspapers, said it “took steps to retain its independence
and provide factual, unbiased information to the world despite intense pressures from Nazi Germany.”
“During the violent and tragic period before the U. S. entered World War II, A. P.
made a conscious decision to maintain access in order to keep the world informed of the ambitions of the Nazi regime
and its brutality,” Sally Buzbee, the agency’s senior vice president and executive editor, said in a statement.
P.’s news report from Berlin was praised at the time by its customers
and the news industry as a whole, and it stands as a major accomplishment today.”
In March 2016, a German historian, Harriet Scharnberg, argued
that The Associated Press was complicit in allowing the Nazis to “portray a war of extermination as a conventional war.” Her research prompted the review, which was written by Larry Heinzerling, an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a former editor at the agency.
Associated Press Rebuts Charge That It Aided Nazi Regime -
By DANIEL VICTORMAY 11, 2017
Pushing back against implications that it actively helped the Nazi regime, The Associated Press defended its reporting from Nazi Germany during the 1930s and ’40s on Wednesday, publishing a lengthy review
that detailed its fraught relationship with the regime.
Beginning in 1942, Germany sent censored photos from Germany
and German-occupied Europe to Associated Press offices in New York and London in exchange for agency photos from the United States, the report revealed.
