But the news organization, which provided photos used in many American newspapers, said it “took steps to retain its independence<br />and provide factual, unbiased information to the world despite intense pressures from Nazi Germany.”<br />“During the violent and tragic period before the U. S. entered World War II, A. P.<br />made a conscious decision to maintain access in order to keep the world informed of the ambitions of the Nazi regime<br />and its brutality,” Sally Buzbee, the agency’s senior vice president and executive editor, said in a statement.<br />P.’s news report from Berlin was praised at the time by its customers<br />and the news industry as a whole, and it stands as a major accomplishment today.”<br />In March 2016, a German historian, Harriet Scharnberg, argued<br />that The Associated Press was complicit in allowing the Nazis to “portray a war of extermination as a conventional war.” Her research prompted the review, which was written by Larry Heinzerling, an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a former editor at the agency.<br />Associated Press Rebuts Charge That It Aided Nazi Regime -<br />By DANIEL VICTORMAY 11, 2017<br />Pushing back against implications that it actively helped the Nazi regime, The Associated Press defended its reporting from Nazi Germany during the 1930s and ’40s on Wednesday, publishing a lengthy review<br />that detailed its fraught relationship with the regime.<br />Beginning in 1942, Germany sent censored photos from Germany<br />and German-occupied Europe to Associated Press offices in New York and London in exchange for agency photos from the United States, the report revealed.
