The Press: Hearstwhile Nazi

A footnote to journalistic history—and to Alfred Rosenberg's career—went into the record at the Nürnberg trial last week. It showed up in a few papers like the New York Times. The Hearst press judged it unnewsworthy.

In one of Nazi Rosenberg's reports to Adolf Hitler, introduced as evidence, Rosenberg boasted that William Randolph Hearst had personally asked him to write on German foreign policy in 1935. Added the warped philosopher of Naziism: "This year five continued articles under my name have appeared in Hearst papers all over the world. Since these articles, as Hearst personally informed me, presented well-founded arguments, he begged...

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