Far from an exception, this was part of a pattern at the Times of its correspondents smoothing the jagged edges of the Nazi project. In August 1936, the Times reported from the Berlin Olympics that visitors had concluded “Hitler is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, political leader in the world today” – printed the same year Jewish German athletes were thrown off the national team and the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship. The Times correspondent who wrote those words would also opine (in a news story) that the newly reinstituted German draft would mean that “Military discipline and...
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