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  1. As the Nazi regime applied increasing pressure on him to include official propaganda in his scripts, Shirer signaled CBS headquarters that the tightening censorship made it impossible for him to report objectively. “I may,” he wrote, “have outlived my usefulness here.”.

    • Edward R. Murrow

      He could not be “objective” about the rise of fascism, he...

  2. William L. Shirer. William Lawrence Shirer (/ ˈʃaɪrər /; 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 ...

  3. William Shirer offered a 1,250-page answer. It wasn’t a final answer—even now, after tens of thousands of pages from scores of historians, there is no final answer—but Shirer reminded the ...

  4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a book by American journalist William L. Shirer in which the author chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in Europe in 1945.

    • William L. Shirer
    • 1960
  5. William L. Shirer (born Feb. 23, 1904, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Dec. 28, 1993, Boston, Mass.) was an American journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his massive study The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1960).

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  6. In September 1934, American journalist William L. Shirer had just arrived in Germany to work as a reporter for the Hearst Company. He proceeded to keep a diary of the entire seven years he spent reporting from inside Hitler's Reich.

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  8. Jan 10, 2024 · Shirer reports: Though brutal and bombastic, and dripping with venom against the Czech state and especially against the Czech President, the Fuehrer's speech, made to a delirious mass of Nazi fanatics gathered in the huge stadium on the last night of the party rally, was not a declaration of war.

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