The Associated Press concedes it allowed Adolf Hitler to censor a news report about his plan for a Jewish genocide, hired a paid Nazi propaganda officer as a photographer, and obeyed Third Reich orders to fire six Jewish employees in Germany.
But the news agency rejects suggestions it was a Nazi collaborator, as alleged in an academic article published in Germany last year.
“We recognize that AP should have done some things differently during this period,” AP said in a 161-page report issued Wednesday. “However, suggestions that AP at any point sought to help the Nazis or their heinous cause are simply wrong,” the AP report said.