Chicago’s Tribune Sends a Pioneering Reporter To Confront the Nazis
The reporter had been all but forgotten even though William L. Shirer once declared: ‘No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.’
‘The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany’
By Pamela D. Toler
Beacon Press, 288 pages
In contemporary documentaries, the author of “Berlin Diary” and “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” William L. Shirer, is a potent witness to history while his colleague, Sigrid Schultz, is forgotten — even though Mr. Shirer once declared: “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.”
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