Let’s look into two media reports during the very first years of Hitler’s reign. The first is from the “newspaper of record,” the New York Times of September 8, 1935. In an article on page 26 with the headline “Congress Defends Polish Jews,” we read that “[…] the first world conference of the Federation of Polish Jews [was] being attended by sixty delegates from eighteen countries representing 6,000,000 Jews.” It doesn’t say anything about the Jews suffering, however, but the next entry compensates for that. It is also from The New York Times, from its March 29, 1933 issue. On page 9, we read under the headline “Aldermen Vote Hitler Protest”: The Joint Distribution Committee “is now active in relief and reconstruction work in Eastern Europe where 6,000,000 Jews are involved. The work there is done through the office in Berlin.”
