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  Miriam Margolyes e t s o r d o p S n c u 1 t 5 1 A     i g l 1 9 i 6 m a 7 l u 0 i M s 0 6 a 4 7 0 A 0 u 4 4 5 u 3 f h   h g u :   c 5 t    ·   A new book, “The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler” shows how, in the lead-up to WWII, press barons worked to sway the public toward Hitler’s line. In January 1934, Lord Harold Rothermere, owner of Britain’s Daily Mail, filed a story from Munich praising Adolf Hitler. Rothermere assured his readers that stories of atrocities were wildly exaggerated. The restaurants and hotels in Munich were bustling with German Jews during the festive season, and none “showed [any] symptoms of insecurity or suffering,” the British newspaper proprietor wrote. This was typical of the pro-Nazi line Britain’s Daily Mail continued to promote that year. The Nazis needed to control the “alien elements and Israelites of international attachments who were insinuating themselves into the German state,” as Ro...