In 1925, Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf. The Jews intended to take over the world, he wrote, and when they did, they would destroy humanity.

Jews who suffered and the six million who perished in Europe had something in common with the people who ran the newspaper—and this was something that the New York Times’s controlling owners somehow found unacceptable.

the initial identification and social expulsion of Jews and others, the confiscation of their property, their ghettoization, their deportation, and, ultimately, even their extermination.

these words and acknowledged that the Nazis, who had provoked a world war and were ravaging Europe, had committed one of the greatest crimes in history. It also put its finger on the variety of devices used to kill the Jews, from new technologies like gas chambers to the simplest methods of brutality such as starvation and whipping. Yet the story r