Introduction: Shaping the news -- I. Laying the foundation : Dateline Berlin: covering the Nazi whirlwind ; Making meaning of events ; The Olympic Games: Germany triumphant ; 1938: from Auschluss to Kristallnacht ; Barring the gates to children and refugee ships ; Fifth-column fears -- II. The final solution : Deportation to annihilation: the first reports ; Official confirmation ; Reluctant rescuers ; Witness to the persecution ; Against belief.