Newspaper Coverage Quotes
He had knocked out Joe Louis earlier. Hitler and the Nazi propaganda machine promoted the championship fight to prove their racial policies. Schmelling was Aryan—the Master Race of the World according to the Nazis while Joe Louis, a Black American, was considered to be an untermenchen—a lower man. For the two boxers, this was all nonsense, but symbolically this boxing match was a geopolitical event. Louis won by a knockout in a minute and a half of the first round and for a while the German racial propaganda machine was silenced.
She was not alleging parity of the two sides here. While many of the military of the North tried to put the best face on battles, the Northern newspapers were actually savage about reporting Union casualties and battles lost—often exaggerating the ineptitude of the Union military leaders. In the South however, in most cases where there was a Union Victory the Southern papers reported it as a hard fought, high casualty, narrow victory for the South. The major Northern newspapers would also claim a Union victory hence her quotation. However, later she and many other educated Southerners really understood the that the South—all the institutions and most people tended to be in denial about the war. See {633930} for her more realistic view late the following year.
