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Title: Beyond Belief : The American Press And The Coming Of The Holocaust, 1933- 1945 by Deborah E. Lipstadt ISBN: 0-02-919161-0 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 08 February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A prodigiously researched indictment of indifference
Comment: This is a very good read. The book tells the story as to how the press in the USA covered the Holocaust. In doing so it explodes a lot of myths concerning the alleged lack of knowledge about what was happening to the Jews. Newspaper after newspaper from The New York Times on down had articles about the persecutions and murders. Yet they were never emphasized properly and were often relegated to the back pages. Rarely did they ever make the front pages. It was almost as if the nation preferred not to know. Many factors contributed to this; anit-Semitism, isolationism, American skepticism. The American government also contributed to down playing the news. The three most prominent villains in this were: Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long ( anativist), Assistant Secrteary of War John J. McCloy (who said that if the USA bombed Auschwitz the nazis would be "even more vindictive") and Congressman Sol F. Bloom who headed the House Foreign Affairs Committee (and was referred to by Stephen Wise as "the State Departments House Jew"). There were reporters who did their jobs well who constantly emphasized that anti-Semitism was a "raison d'etre" of National Socialism however they were in the minority. This book along with David S. Wyman's "The Abandonment of the Jews" are the two best books on the subject. William D. Rubinstein's "The Myth of Rescue" is a poorly written book that contradicts itself over and over again and is a book for peopel who think that FDR could do no wrong.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book delving into American press during the holocaust
Comment: This book gives great insight into the way in which the American press treated the holocaust. While often overlooked, the press handled the holocaust in a manner that many Americans would be ashamed of today. This book is unique in that no other book i know of has delved as deeply into this area. In addition, Dr. Lipstadt is a truely unique and knowledgable expert on the holocaust.
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Title: The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman, Elie Wiesel ISBN: 1565844157 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt ISBN: 0452272742 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Auschwitz and the Allies : A Devastating Account of How the Allies Responded to the News of Hitler's Mass Murder by Martin Gilbert ISBN: 0805014624 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy by Arthur D. Morse, Herbert Mitgang ISBN: 0879518367 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's "Final Solution" by Walter Laqueur ISBN: 0805059849 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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