Beyond Belief: The American Press And The Coming Of The Holocaust, 1933- 1945

by Deborah E. Lipstadt

Overview

This most complete study to date of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a twelve-year period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780029191613
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	02/08/1993
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	715,746
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Deborah Lipstadt, author of The Eichmann Trial (2011), History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (2005), and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-45 (1986), occupies the Dorot Chair in Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction: Shaping the News	1
Part I	Laying the Foundation
1.	Dateline Berlin: Covering the Nazi Whirlwind	13
2.	Making Meaning of Events	40
3.	The Olympic Games: Germany Triumphant	63
4.	1938: From Anschluss to Kristallnacht	86
5.	Barring the Gates to Children and Refugee Ships	112
6.	Fifth-Column Fears	121
Part II	The Final Solution
7.	Deportation to Annihilation: The First Reports	135
8.	Official Confirmation	159
9.	Reluctant Rescuers	197
10.	Witness to the Persecution	218
11.	Against Belief	240
	Notes	279
	Index	359