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Born in Chicago in 1904, Shirer grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he attended Coe College. After graduating in 1925, he worked his way to Europe on a cattle boat, intending to become a journalist. By 1927, the Chicago Tribune had hired him as a correspondent in its Paris bureau. In 1934, he reported on the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg for ...
- Edward R. Murrow
He could not be “objective” about the rise of fascism, he...
- Edward R. Murrow
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is Shirer's comprehensive historical interpretation of the Nazi era, positing that German history logically proceeded from Martin Luther to Adolf Hitler; [3] [a] [page needed] and that Hitler's accession to power was an expression of German national character, not of totalitarianism as an ideology that was internationally fashionable in the 1930s.
- William L. Shirer
- 1960
Hitler was still a youth when he came under the spell of one of his teachers at Linz, Leopold Poetsch, and Shirer brings forth from the shadows of amnesia this nearly forgotten figure, an acolyte ...
William Lawrence Shirer (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ r ər /; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian.His The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany, has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 60 years; its fiftieth anniversary was marked by a new edition of the book.
Book 1. You can think of Book One of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as laying the intellectual groundwork for the pages that follow.. In these chapters, Shirer charts the early years of Adolf Hitler's life, and shows us how the young would-be Fuehrer went from being an Austrian "vagabond" to the discredited schemer of the infamous Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, his failed coup to take over ...
Overview. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960) is a 1,140-page history of Nazi Germany from its inception through its final days. As a newspaper and radio reporter, author William L. Shirer lived and worked in the Third Reich during the 1930s and early 1940s. Throughout the book, Shirer draws partly on his own first-hand observations and ...
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Jun 10, 1990 · WILLIAM L. SHIRER: It certainly did, yeah. BILL MOYERS: What was the Nazi fantasy? WILLIAM L. SHIRER: Well, there’s a myth about the whole thing, a myth about Hitler. But those are so intangible ...
