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  1. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, June 9, 196 1. Purely Commentary. William L. Shirer, one of America's most distinguished. newspapermen, who was a correspondent for American news-. papers in Germany during the crucial years of Hitler's rise to. power and_his launching of the tragic war .on several countries.

  2. HISTORY. Revisiting The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Recently reissued, William L. Shirers seminal 1960 history of Nazi Germany is still important reading. Ron Rosenbaum. February...

  3. Aug 27, 2021 · The 26-year-old, Chicago-born William L. Shirer was at a diplomatic party and there he met Mohammed Zahir Khan, the 16-year-old crown prince of Afghanistan. A member of the Pashtun tribe, the teen ...

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  5. By William L. Shirer. June 1947 Issue. ... a Jewish régisseur. Wisten is a bit puzzled that none of the Allies will give him a theater, though the British have given de Kowa two, despite his ...

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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 Tribunehad hired him as a correspondent in its Paris bureau.In 1934, he reported on the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg for the New...

    Murrow was convinced that the momentous developments in Europe needed to be reported to Americans by journalists who could also give them critical analysis of the events. He assembled a group of young reporters, including Shirer, who became known collectively as “Murrow’s Boys.” Together, they informed the American listening public about what was h...

    Shirer fought always to transmit accurate news despite attempts by German radio authorities to censor his reports. Often, he had to indicate a truth to his listeners by the tone or inflection in his voice, or by a pause held longer than usual. As the Nazi regime applied increasing pressure on him to include official propaganda in his scripts, Shire...

    Back in New York, he hosted a CBS weekly news and analysis program until being fired in 1947, ostensibly for his left-leaning views. The firing led to a falling out with Murrow that the two men never repaired. In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy accused Shirer of being a Communist sympathizer. McCarthy’s false accusation nearly ended Shirer’s car...

  6. Dec 30, 1993 · William L. Shirer, the author of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and a foreign correspondent whose pioneering live trans-Atlantic radio broadcasts on the eve of World War II helped...

  7. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. William Lawrence Shirer ( / ˈʃaɪrər /; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years.