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Free Press

“The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s, supplying American newspapers with material directly produced and selected by the Nazi propaganda ministry, archive material unearthed by a German historian has revealed.” 

—Philip Olbermann, reporter, “Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis,” The Guardian, March 30, 2016 Image:SS pamphlet “The Sub-Human,” using photographs by Associated Press

• Editorial Comment: Some style, AP. 


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