The Times and the Concentration Camp at Dachau, December 1933-February 1934: An Unpublished Report

In February 1934 the London Times decided not to publish a long article on the concentration camp at Dachau, although it had already been set up and corrected in galley proofs. The author, Stanley Simpson, listed details of mistreatment of prisoners, based on accounts by witnesses. The Times' Own Correspondent in Berlin, Norman Ebbutt, urged it be published. The report was finally rejected not because it was thought unreliable but because reports about other concentration camps had appeared recently elsewhere, and probably because Geoffrey Dawson, the Editor of The Times, a semi-official journal of record, thought it better not to annoy the German government at that time. Notes and letters about the decision to publish or not and the article itself are held in the Times archives.