ReadingTheDots@social.vivaldi.net"Beyond Belief: The American Press And The Coming Of The Holocaust, 1933- 1945" by Deborah E. Lipstadt. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 1993.
Book description: This complete study 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.
Emotionally, this is not an easy book to read, but I found it very instructive because it chronicles much of what was published in the British and United States press, during these years, and, therefore, is part of the historical record.
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Thanks, just ordered this from my library.
Sound relevant to something I've always wondered about but never got around to researching: A lot of people nowadays seem to think that the Holocaust was the main reason the Allies fought WWII. Which seems extremely unlikely to me.
But of course the first question that leads to is what was known about it by the general public, by those in a position to know, and by the top levels of politics.
@cptbutton @bookstodon She also has another book about Holocaust deniers. I also plan to read that, at some point.
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The Internet Archive has this:
"Book available to patrons with print disabilities."
https://archive.org/details/beyondbeliefthea00lips
@bookstodon @cptbutton Yes, that's good! I got my copy from Bookshare, an online digital library for people with reading barriers, including blindness. That is actually where the bulk of the books I read come from, though I do also use Kindle, and occasionally ebooks from my local library.