Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust 1933-1945

Plot

Today the Holocaust is viewed as the cetnral issue of Nazi policy and rule. But from 1933 to 1945 many people did not sense the full horror of the Third Reich. Despite the astonishing amount of information about Nazi atrocities available long before the concentration camps were opened, polls showed that, even as late as 1945 many Americans still refused to believe Holocaust "propaganda." Why? In this eye-opening book, Lipstadt argues that these public doubts resulted from teh American press's failure to treat the destruction of European Jews as urgent news.