The BBC Initially Refused to Air Richard Dimbleby’s Eye Witness Account of the Belsen Concentration Camp. They Did Not Believe it was as Horrible as He Described. The Network Only Agreed to Broadcast After Dimbleby Threatened to Resign.
Frederick Richard Dimbleby was an English journalist and broadcaster who served as the BBC’s first war correspondent and later as its chief TV news commentator. But did you know that the BBC initially refused to air Dimbleby’s work on the Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945? The BBC initially refused to publish Richard Dimbleby’s eyewitness account […]
