July 2, 2004

Reports of Genocide in World War II

To the Editor:

Thomas Doherty states that "the first unimpeachable verification of Nazi genocide came to the wartime generation not via the newsreels or still photographs, but in the wrenching eyewitness account of broadcaster Edward R. Murrow on April 15, 1945," describing the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II ("Return With Us Now to Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear: Radio Studies Rise Again," The Chronicle Review, May 21).

In fact, "the first