The Associated Press has refuted a discovery by a German investigator last year that the agency allegedly allowed the Nazi regime to use its services as a propaganda arm. The agency said that the in-depth internal examination showed that it "acted in the most open and independent manner possible," but admitted that it had reached understandings with the Nazi regime, which in effect had taken it from its practical ability to be an impartial media tool.
Thus, for example, the AP admitted that in 1935 it fired six Jews from its photography service in Germany, following the Nazi ban on employing Jews. However, the Agency claimed that it had helped six emigrants from Germany, and that they survived.