Total annihilation of the Jewish population: the Holocaust in the Soviet media, 1941-45

This chapter tests the notion of wartime Soviet neglect of the Nazi mass murder of the Jews. Between June 1941 and May 1945, how and when did the Russian-language Soviet press and radio report, distort or ignore the Nazi murder of Jewish civilians? Throughout the war, Stalin and his associates heard from various sources that the Nazis were deliberately killing Jews. The Soviet media often concealed this fact, and from today's western perspective 'buried' it