Why Did New York Times bury news of the Holocaust on its back pages Back In 1933?

Answer 1

Jews were not being exterminated at that point. They were being herded into ghettos and had their property seized etc.
Extermination camp did not open until 1940, after WW2 was declared. Even at that time, not only the New York Times but most publications buried the news in an effort to appear " neutral". Published reports of the systematic killing of Jews first appeared in the US papers in 1941 . The US knew something was happening because there had been the mass exodus of Jews and the US also has the unfortunate history of also denying entry to those ships.
The most publicized voyage was the SS St. Louis and its 937 Jewish passengers in 1939. The luxury liner was turned away by Cuba, the United States and Canada and ordered to return to Hamburg, Germany. Most of those passengers never survived the death camps.
If you listen to some people who lived through those years. they knew about it from the papers but did not want to believe it.
Andy Rooney, the curmudgeon on CBS's "60 Minutes" said his father said they did not believe it because they felt that it was propoganda to try and entice the US into entering the war. There had been a long period of isolationism that took place in this nation.

Answer 2

Hidan, you've asked about a chapter in history most americans are rather willfully uninformed about.

1933 was indeed a little early for the holocaust to have officially begun, but the notion that we did not know of the death camps till the war was underway is an astonishing lie.

The average German citizen knew of the camps... how could they not? Those camps hired workers from all over Germany. The camps were located by populated towns, sometimes mere walking distance away.

America did not get into the war until Japan attacked us, and there was a reason we didn't really wholeheartedly confront Hitler. Many of our business leaders and power mongers (Henry Ford, Prescott Bush) thought his fascist regime was a good thing. If he indeed was going to take over Europe, went the quiet reasoning in backrooms and boardrooms, maybe better not to confront him and offer alliance when the time came to deal with him.

The Great Depression had many of these business leaders (and they are the power elite in America) thinking that fascism might indeed be the wave of the future, since it represented corporate control of government.

No, you are a little inaccurate on your timeline, but the idea is right.

We were silent about what we knew. And history will ultimately publish this shameful fact.

Answer 3

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, an assimilated Jew of German descent, feared that the newspaper would be engaging in special pleading and thus deliberately downplayed news of the Holocaust and the Jewish identity of the victims.
http://www.allbusiness.com/middle-east/israel/358603-1.html?yahss=114-2974554-358603

Fearful of accusations of special pleading or dual loyalties, the newspaper hesitated to highlight the news. In addition, the newspaper’s Jewish publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, believed that Jews were neither a racial nor ethnic group, and therefore should not be identified as Jews for any other than religious reasons. He also believed that Americans would only want to help Jews if their cause was melded with that of other persecuted people. He therefore ensured that his paper universalized the Nazis’ victims in editorials and on the front page.
http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2005-03-nytimes.php

Answer 4

In 1933 the Holocaust wasn't a holocaust yet. I would guess most papers placed the story in the back pages.

Answer 5

What are you talking about. The Holocaust offically began in World War Two. Still the New York Times should've looked at the plight of the Jews in Germany during the 30s

Answer 6

It is impossible for the New York Times to have buried Holocaust stories in 1933 because the Holocaust had not started then. Hitler was evil, and some media outlets chose to not report what they knew about his evil, much like some current outlets choose to not report atrocities committed in certain places now.
Like Hitler, the current threat to civilization is from people who hate Jews and are trying to eliminate them. Instead of relying on media, you must look for the truth yourself.
You must wake up and smell the jihad...

Answer 7

No, because it did not become a Holocaust until World War II was already being fought. Then the Nazi's decided to kill them all. Open a history book.

Answer 8

is that really true? i dont think we even knew about the concentration camps in the US until the late 1940's - after the war ended.

the was also the same year in which hitler assumed the chancellorship and declared the reichstag fires a state of emergency and suspended the parliament. i dont think the holocaust was underway just yet.

Answer 9

The Rothschild's were funding Hitler in Europe and the same family in America were funding the Allies. They, the "Illuminati" control the news. May be wrong but believe David Rockefeller controls your news in America. Go to

Sorry, but they were already targeting the Jews, Hitler made it clear in all his pre-war speeches. How could they have hidden them if they did not have the reports?You can't hide something you don't have.

Answer 10

1933? that was just in the begining, noone had an idea of what was to come, and some minority group having to wear around a badge wasnt real much news...