Sublime

For ten years, the Times’s Berlin bureau under Enderis took the soft tack on the Nazi regime, whitewashing its crimes and downplaying its dangerousness, all the while leading the American public, hungry for information about the new Germany, down a deadly path. That

“If we must offend one side,” Chamberlain told his Cabinet, “let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs.”

But despite the epic nature of the story and the prominent identity of its author, the New York Times decided to downplay—one more time—the story of the Holocaust and placed the story on page twelve.

There was a measure of similarity in the way average Germans and average Jews reacted.

The attack at Ypres was overseen by the father of this new method of war, the Jewish chemist Fritz Haber.

D-Day was set for April 1, 1943.

“Joe the Jew.”

One Bielski partisan, Oppenheim, a man in his forties, was a talented locksmith. He came to the forest with his son from Novogródek ghetto.