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AS ADOLF HITLER ROSE TO POWER, SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL PUBLISHERS ON BOTH
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As the dictator sent his occupying forces across a neighboring country’s
borders, the international press was outraged. Most of it was, anyway. One major
American outlet’s reaction was, in essence: There’s nothing to see here. “After
all,” it said of the autocrat, “he’s occupying his own territory.”

No, that’s not some present-day talking head holding forth on Vladimir Putin and
Ukraine. Rather, it was the New York Daily News in 1936, after Adolf Hitler
occupied the Rhineland. The comment was by no means an isolated one. In “The
Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler,” Kathryn S. Olmsted places
it more or less in the middle of a remarkable and shameful history. Her subjects
are Lord Rothermere of Britain’s Daily Mail; Max Beaverbrook of the Daily
Express, which vied with the Daily Mail to be the biggest-selling newspaper in
the country; Robert McCormick of the Chicago Tribune; Joseph Patterson of the
Daily News; his sister, Eleanor “Cissy” Patterson, of the Washington
Times-Herald; and William Randolph Hearst, who controlled 28 American
newspapers. Together, this group’s publications reached some 50 million
Americans and 16 million Britons every day.

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