The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

station,” the reporter and editors at the Times left out one critical fact that would have been known to them all: the “semi-official news agency” cited as the article’s main source was one of the Nazis’ central propaganda organs. In reality, by 1939 there was no such thing as a “semi-official news agency” in Germany. Propaganda minister Joseph Goe

The New York Times’s post-Olympics reporting was in lockstep with Nazi propaganda efforts, even if the paper’s motives were not the same as the Reich’s.

this point, it is impossible to say which of the Times’s reports and hopeful predictions about the Nazis was the most disturbing. What can be said is that already by 1935, a clear pattern had emerged in the New York Times’s reporting on Nazi Germany. While reports from the 1920s might have taken a “split-the-difference” approach to Hitler, by the 1

And, accordingly, never once has the New York Times officially apologized for the way that it covered—or did not cover—the Holocaust.

painfully clear—this time with the glaring clarity of hindsight—that just when the country and the world most needed the triumph of truth from America’s flagship newspaper, the Gray Lady provided nothing more than a deadly string of devastating failure.

On August 31, 1939, Hitler put into action one of the most flagrant scams in the history of the modern world. In order to give Germany a reason and a right to begin its war of European conquest, he and a number of Gestapo propagandists and henchmen (including Heinrich Müller, who would be made head of the Gestapo a month later) concocted a scheme t

could not survive. Other women gave birth to shapeless deformities. Ninety percent of the children under the age of twelve at the time of the test developed thyroid tumors. In short, the bomb tests ruined the lives of hundreds of people, damning them and their children to shockingly short lifespans and illness.36 And the American public, still unde

The rally represented one of the early—and one of the strikingly few—instances where a Holocaust story would make the front page of the New York Times. The article was 2,783 words long, but in all those words the Times report did not make a single mention of the fact that Jews were being mass slaughtered as part of a Nazi racial extermination campa

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Rather, looking at the history of the ownership and their relationship with their ethnic-religious background, it becomes disturbingly evident that the owners of the New York Times actually downplayed and, for all practical purposes, obscured the story of the Holocaust because they were Jewish. This is the tragic irony of the Times’s Holocaust cove