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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 experiences.
The Collapse of the Third Republic. The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 by William L. Shirer (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969) deals with the collapse of the French Third Republic as a result of Hitler's invasion during World War II. [1]
- William Lawrence Shirer
- 1969
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Aug 5, 2009 · William shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York, 1960) has been widely hailed as a great work of history. Harry Schermann, chairman of the board of directors of the Book of the Month Club, says that it “will almost certainly come to be considered the definitive history of one of the most frightful chapters in the story of mankind.”
- Klaus Epstein
- 1961
- Abstract
- “Authentic” Reports from A Contemporary Witness
- Shirer's Sources
- Fellow Journalists
- Diplomatic Reports
- German Sources For The Embassy Report
- In Spite of Shirer: The Unreality of The Crimes
Like many of his contemporaries, Shirer had dreamed of a literary life in Paris. At the age of 21, soon after finishing college in 1925, he fled the provincial-seeming United States for the French capital. The Chicago Tribune provided him with his first major employment: in 1930 and 1931 he reported for the paper from India, with special focus on M...
Like many of his colleagues, Shirer published a report on the National Socialist state soon after returning to the United States from Germany. In just nine lines in the second part of his detailed February 1941 report “Inside Wartime Germany,” he informed readers of Life magazine about the “fantastic ‘mercy killings’” by the Gestapo.7 Citing these ...
What sources did Shirer use, and who may have provided him with the explosive information? When Shirer left Germany in late 1940, the existence of the authorizing document (Ermächtigungsschreiben), was known only to a few people inside the National Socialist power elite. Since the CBS correspondent did not have the contacts necessary to acquire suc...
The rise of the “Third Reich” attracted numerous reporters from foreign countries. In the early war years, some 200 foreign correspondents reported from Berlin, operating in a sequestered, highly-structured world of hotels, clubs for foreigners, and Propaganda Ministry and Foreign Office venues. Press conferences were held in rapid succession, and ...
Because the United States remained neutral after the war broke out in Europe, American diplomats and reporters remained in the Reich during the time of Aktion T4.48 Only the German order to close American consulates in July 1941, and the closure of the embassy following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war in Decemb...
Gürtner conveyed some of the information, probably without knowing it. By the fall of 1940 he knew the names of the people in charge of the program and was aware of Hitler's rejection of the idea of a law; he had received a copy of Hitler's authorization from Bouhler on August 27, 1940. Gürtner in turn was in close contact with Hans von Dohnanyi, a...
With the Allies’ liberation of Eastern and Central Europe, shocking accounts and pictures of the German mass crimes reached the international public. Only with the reporters’ on-site accounts and the hellish images did the dimensions of the terror, until then inconceivable, become real for mass audiences. Years earlier, the print media in some coun...
- Thorsten Noack
- 2016
The book sold more than one million copies in hardback, won the 1961 National Book Award, and restored his reputation. Shirer continued to write about his experiences as a foreign correspondent, publishing an epilogue to Berlin Diary, his Berlin broadcast scripts, and a multi-volume autobiography. William L. Shirer died in Boston in 1993.
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.
Shirer's work were shaped not only by differing degrees of historiographical knowledge but also by separate national political concerns. At the time of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich's appearance, West Germany's nazi past had become a highly-charged political issue. Between 1959 and 1961, various incidents - from
