Puckett Dan J
Holocaust Genocide Stud. 2011;25(2):219-51. doi: 10.1093/hgs/dcr033.
The press in Alabama covered major events taking place in Germany from the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in 1933 through the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Journalists in the state provided extensive coverage, and editors did not hesitate to opine on the persecution of the Jews in Europe. Yet, Alabama’s white-run press failed in the end to explain the events as a singularly Jewish tragedy. The state’s black-run press, for its part, used the news of the mass killings of the Jews to warn against the dangers of conceptions of racial superiority—a primary concern for black southerners living in the Jim Crow South.
阿拉巴马州的媒体报道了1933年阿道夫·希特勒和纳粹崛起至1946年纽伦堡审判期间在德国发生的重大事件。该州的记者进行了广泛报道，编辑们也毫不犹豫地对欧洲犹太人遭受的迫害发表意见。然而，阿拉巴马州由白人经营的媒体最终未能将这些事件解释为一场独特的犹太悲剧。而该州由黑人经营的媒体则利用犹太人被大规模屠杀的新闻，警告种族优越观念的危险性，这是生活在实行种族隔离的美国南部的黑人的主要担忧。
