INDEX

Action Française, 52

Adlon Hotel (Berlin), 66–9, 89, 105–11, 145–6, 148, 150–1, 158–61, 174, 182, 190, 196, 198, 204, 209–11, 213–14, 216, 220, 225–6

foreign press ball (1934), 66–7

Afghanistan, 31–5

Alexandre, Serge, 53

Alfred A. Knopf, 95, 149, 154, 238

Allen, Jay, 26–8, 44, 55

Allies, 71, 160–1, 168, 226

Alsace-Lorraine, 87, 123

American expatriates in France (1920s), 17–20, 21–2

Anschluss (1938), 112–18, 121–2, 127, 128, 141, 199, 207, 242

anti-Semitism, 24, 45, 49–51, 60, 62, 75, 102, 109, 111, 112–19, 120–1, 128–35, 152, 239, 248, 253

See also Nazi party; Nuremberg Laws

Aschmann, Gottfried, 88, 101, 109, 122

Associated Press (AP), 75, 101, 192, 197, 229, 252–3

Austria, 4, 30, 35, 37–41, 44–5, 54, 73, 79, 111, 112–19, 121–3, 127–35, 140–1, 160, 199, 203, 207, 222, 240, 242–3

See also Anschluss

Austrian Jews, 111, 112–18, 121, 128–35

forced emigration of, 128–30

professional class, 112–13

property theft of, 121, 128

and suicide, 118, 128

See also Katz, Helene

Bade, Wilfred, 84–5

Barcelona, Spain, 3–5, 41–4, 46, 49, 59, 96, 207, 209, 217–19

Barnes, Esther, 93

Barnes, Joe, 145, 228

Barnes, Ralph, 93, 138, 192–3

BBC, see British Broadcasting Corporation

Beach, Sylvia, 19

Beattie, Ed, 74

Beck, E. S., 5, 40

Beer Hall Putsch (1923), 24, 67, 133

Belgium, invasion of (1940), 159–63, 165–70

and looting, 167–8

Beneš, Edvard, 123, 126, 137, 139

Berkson, Seymour, 80, 103

Berlin

arriving in (1934), 54–6, 59–61

blackouts (1939–1940), 150–4, 158, 163, 214, 216, 220

bombing of (1940), 194–8, 199–207, 208–27

exit visa (1940), 210, 213–14

final trip to (1985), 235–6

getting papers out of (1940), 210–11, 214–19

leaving (1940), 200–7, 208–23

rationing (1939), 153–7

ruins of (1945), 224–7

Berlin Diary (1941) (Shirer), 149, 201, 224–6, 231, 238

Bess, Demaree, 178

Best, Robert, 30, 114, 239

Bicket, James P., 9

Birchall, Frederick, 42, 51–2, 85, 101, 106, 110

blackouts (Berlin) (1939–1940), 150–4, 158, 163, 168, 214, 216, 220

Blomberg, Werner von, 67, 88–91

Bodelschwingh, Friedrich von, 204

Boehmer, Karl, 139–40

Börsen Zeitung, 77

Brauchitsch, Walther von, 181

Bremen (German liner), 79–80, 82

Bridges, Bill, 10–11

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 126, 156, 161, 174

Brown, Walter B., 9

Bryan, William Jennings, 10

Bryant, Louise, 30

Brysac, Shareen Blair, 75–6

Burleigh, Michael, 50, 82

Burnett, Whit, 30, 35

Calvinism, 6

CBS, see Columbia Broadcasting System

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 5–11, 13–14, 18, 22–3, 25, 30, 46, 68, 79, 103, 124, 129, 149, 161, 187, 226–8, 232, 237, 242

censorship (Nazi), 60–2, 66, 76–7, 81–4, 89, 100, 108–9, 115, 122–4, 141–3, 155, 159–60, 168, 172–3, 191–8, 199, 201–3, 206, 209–10, 238–9

Central Agency for Jewish Emigration (Vienna), 128

Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, 134

Chamberlain, Neville, 132, 137–9, 199

Chicago Daily News, 6, 9, 24, 29, 42–3, 51, 67, 74, 81–2, 101, 117

Chicago Tribune, 1, 5–7, 9–10, 14–30, 31–40, 67, 74, 85, 95, 101–2, 104, 106, 112, 114, 146, 150, 161, 178, 193, 218, 230, 239

Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent (Shirer), 14–20, 21–30, 31–6, 37–42, 48, 95, 101–2, 104, 106, 114, 150, 178, 218, 230

and Afghanistan, 31–5

American tourists, 21–2

complaints about, 29, 40

firing of, 40–2, 95, 102, 104, 178, 218, 230

and foreign assignments, 21, 25, 28

and his peers, 24–5

India, 30, 31, 34–5, 37–9

See also Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand

landing the job, 25, 28

night copydesk (first year), 14–20, 48

Paris, 14–20, 21–8, 34, 106

and sports, 21–2, 25, 28

Vienna, 25, 28–30, 34–6, 39–40

Chladek, Katja Maria, 135

Christian Science Monitor, 45, 187

Christian Social Party, 45

Churchill, Winston, 74, 187

Coe College (Iowa), 5–9, 11, 13, 16–18, 22, 34, 43, 129–30, 187, 228, 230, 237, 240, 242, 244

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 100, 104, 105–7, 110, 112–18, 120–7, 132, 137–48, 149–54, 159–60, 169, 175–7, 182, 185–7, 190–2, 197–8, 199, 209, 220–5, 227–33, 235

in Berlin, see Berlin broadcast of appearance of Hitler, 123–4

and censorship, 141–3, 159–60

See also censorship

in France, see France in WWII

and German-Soviet alliance, 144–5

and harassment by SS, 123–5

hiring of Shirer, 100, 104

and “invasion of England,” 190–2

invasion of Poland, 145–8

and music, 112, 121

praise for Shirer, 138–9

radio broadcast of Anschluss (1938), 115–18

and refugee issue, 127

resignation from, 227–30

Vienna bureau, 110, 112–18

See also Murrow, Edward R.; Paley, William S.

Commercial Cable, 25–8

communism, 28, 33, 48–9, 60, 68, 91, 116, 145, 227

concentration camps, 61, 67–8, 83, 93, 108–9, 121, 201, 213, 235, 240, 248

Conger, Beach, 155

Corpening, Maxwell, 193

correspondence (Shirer), 29, 34, 41–5, 68–70, 121–2, 129–34, 237–8

Cosmos, 8–9, 16

Courier, 34

Czechoslovakia, 123–4, 126, 131–2, 137–9, 155, 199

executions of students (1939), 155

Daily News, see Chicago Daily News

Daily Telegraph (London), 38

Daladier, Édouard, 53, 139

Darrah, David, 14–17

Darrow, Clarence, 6, 10

Davis, Elmer, 197

Day, Donald, 239

Day, Dorothy, 239

depression (Shirer), 69–70, 77, 108, 133, 140, 153, 158

Deuel, Wally, xi–xii, 67–8, 74, 83, 213, 217, 219, 223, 227, 254

diary (Shirer), 3, 8, 41, 47, 51, 54, 56, 61–3, 65–7, 70–4, 77–8, 80, 83–91, 96–7, 100–4, 108–10, 112–19, 123–6, 133, 137–57, 159–63, 164–74, 175–88, 189–92, 194–5, 197–8, 201–6, 209–19, 224–5, 237–40

importance of, 149–50

leaving Berlin with (1940), 210–11, 214–19

Dimont, Charles, 124

Dodd, Martha, 60, 74–6, 97

Dodd, William E., 60, 66, 81, 83, 88, 102

Dollfuss, Engelbert, 45

Dosch-Fleurot, Arno, 54–5, 70–1, 73, 76–7, 80

Duerr, Ludwig, 100

Duncan, Isadora, 14, 25–6

Duranty, Walter, 25, 111

Ebbutt, Norman, 69, 71, 74, 83, 103, 126–7, 155

Eichmann, Adolf, 128–9, 240

Elliott, John, 75, 83, 89

End of a Berlin Diary (Shirer), 226

Enderis, Guido, 51, 74, 92–3, 101, 239

Evans, Richard J., 61, 109

exit visa (1940), 210, 213–14

Falkenhayn, Benita von, 70

fascism, 20, 42, 48–9, 52, 75, 97, 112, 140, 152, 218

Final Solution, 82

Finnegan, R. J., 9

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 19

Flick-Steger, Carl, 179, 252

Foch, Ferdinand, 181, 183

Fodor, Marcel, 30, 114–16, 119

Fodor, Martha, 30, 114

Foreign Ministry, see Wilhelmstrasse

France in WWII (1940), 158–88, 199, 207

battle of France, 159–74

occupation of, 175–81, 199, 207

surrender of, 182–8, 199

France pre-WWII, 13–20, 21–8, 48–55

in 1934, 48–55

and Americans expatriates, 17–20, 21–2

living in (1925–1927), 13–20, 21–8

riots (1933–1934), 53–4

routine in, 18

travel to (1925), 9–12

WWI statistics, 13

Franco, Francisco, 96–7, 219

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), 13, 123

Frantz, Jules, 25, 27

Fritsch, Werner von, 70

Fritzsche, Hans, 226

Fuhrmann, Valerie, 125–6

Gage, Harry Morehouse, 9

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 5, 30–1, 34, 37–9, 95, 107

George, David Lloyd, 97

German Jews, 45, 49–51, 60–1, 64–5, 68, 72–3, 78, 80, 81–4, 93–4, 105, 108–10, 121, 127, 155, 207, 209, 235–6, 238–9

boycott on (1933), 108

businesses, 109–10

expulsion of, 109

extermination of, 82, 121, 155, 238–9

future apologies to, 235–6

Hitler’s attacks on, 109

intellectuals, 105

and professional class, 64–5, 83

property confiscation of (1933–1938), 65, 68, 121, 155

representative couple, 64–5

Shirers helping, 72–3, 82

and WWI veterans, 82

See also anti-Semitism; concentration camps; Final Solution; Hirsch, Helmut; Nuremberg Laws

German military, 116, 169–99, 215

German Eighth Army, 116

German Sixth Army, 169, 199, 215

German press, 76, 92, 139, 145, 155, 160, 177, 203–4

Germany, see Nazi party; Weimar republic

Gervasi, Frank, 117

Gestapo, xiii, 30, 48–56, 68, 72–3, 76–7, 81, 84, 102–3, 108–9, 116, 124–6, 133, 144, 154, 159, 204, 207, 209–12, 214–16, 219, 222, 224, 226

Gibbons, Floyd, 25

Goebbels, Joseph, 62, 67, 70–1, 76–7, 83, 122, 139, 210, 239

Göring, Hermann, 62, 67–8, 82, 90, 96–7, 137, 139, 147, 154–5, 181–2, 190, 226

Gratke, C. R., 45

Great Britain, 22, 28, 31–6, 37–8, 66, 71, 73–4, 78–9, 87, 91, 97, 103, 117, 127, 132, 135, 138, 141, 143–8, 150–3, 155, 158–9, 162–3, 166–8, 171, 173–4, 189–98, 199–207, 208–27, 238

bombing of Berlin (1940), 194–8, 199–207, 208–27

and “invasion of England,” 190–2

“peace” with, 189–90

Great Depression, 3, 5, 35, 42, 46–7, 49, 52–3, 79, 227

The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), 19

Grynszpan, Herschel, 133

Gunther, Frances, 5, 129–32, 134, 234

Gunther, John, 5, 29–30, 43, 129–32, 134, 142–3, 152, 201, 234

Haaretz newspaper, 240

Halberstam, David, 240

Hanfstaengl, Ernst, 51–2, 59, 62, 76, 77

Harsch, Joe, 178, 189, 208

Hass, Amira, 240

Hauptmann, Bruno Richard, 96

Hawkins, Eric, 14, 45–7, 52–3

Hearst, William Randolph, 54–6, 61, 68, 97, 102–3, 117, 150, 179, 182

Hemingway, Ernest, 17–18, 22, 44, 95, 98

Herald (Paris), 43, 45–7, 48–9, 52–5

day copydesk editor, 47, 48–9

and French riots (1934), 53–4

reporter, 52–4

Herald Tribune, 79

Herriot, Édouard, 54

Hess, Rudolf, 62, 139, 181, 226

Hillman, Bill, 99–100, 103

Himmler, Heinrich, 67, 154, 212, 226

Hindenburg, Marshal von, 96

Hindenburg zeppelin, 91, 99–100

Hirsch, Helmut, 102

Hitler, Adolf, 5, 8, 24, 35, 42, 49–51, 54, 59–66, 68, 70–1, 73, 75–6, 80, 82–3, 85, 87–92, 94, 96–7, 99, 101–2, 106–11, 112–14, 120–4, 139, 142–6, 156, 159–60, 174–5, 180–4, 189, 197, 199–200, 204, 212, 217, 221, 223–6

and anger, 120–1, 139, 182

appearance by, 123–4

and Aryan “race,” 120

attacks on Jews, 109

and Chamberlain, 139

and fall of France (1940), 181–2

and the Olympics, 83, 85

Reichstag speech (1940), 189

and Rhineland, 88–91

suicide of, 225–6

Holzer, Anton, 135

Huntziger, Charles, 185

Huss, Pierre, 74, 103, 192

 

India, 3, 5, 31–5, 37–9, 42–3, 79, 95, 101, 107

International News Service (INS), 74, 77, 103–4, 117, 197

Shirer as correspondent with, 103–4

“invasion of England,” 190–2

 

James, Edwin L., 43

Jewish War Veterans Bund, 73

Jews in WWII Europe, 45, 49–51, 60–1, 64–5, 68, 72–3, 78, 80, 81–4, 93–4, 105, 108–11, 112–18, 121, 127–35, 155, 207, 209, 235–6, 238–9

Polish Jews, 39, 45

See also anti-Semitism; Austrian Jews; concentration camps; German Jews; Nazi party; Nuremberg laws; Polish Jews

Johnson, Philip, 152

Jordan, Max, 113, 139, 148

journalism career (Shirer)

See print journalism career; radio journalism career

Joyce, James, 19

Joyce, William, 156, 159, 205

 

Kabul, 31–4

Kaltenborn, H. V., 141–2, 144–5

Katz, Helene, 39, 114–15, 128–35, 240

Keitel, Wilhelm, 181, 183, 185–6, 226

Kerker, William C., 182–4, 186

Kerr, Walter, 178, 187, 253

Khan, Mohammed Zahir, 31–3

Khan, Nadir, 31, 34–5

Kipling, Rudyard, 32

Klemperer, Eva, 49, 156, 238

Klemperer, Victor, 8, 49, 109, 156–7, 238

Knickerbocker, H. R., 51–2, 62, 83, 94

Knopf, Blanche, 149, 154, 201

Kohl, Helmut, 236

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) (1938), 131, 133

Kropf, Otto, 186

Kunsti, Erich, 115, 203

La Victoire newspaper, 180

Latta, George, 11–12, 13–17, 45

Le Matin newspaper, 180

Le Petit Journal, 26

League of Nations, 18, 29, 50, 65

Leff, Laurel, 239

Lehman, Willy, 72–3

Lenglen, Suzanne, 22

Levy, Gideon, 240

Lewis, Sinclair, 30, 98

Lincoln, Abraham, 28

Lindbergh, Charles, 25–8, 41, 96

Lindbergh, Charles Jr., 96

Lipstadt, Deborah E., 82

Lloret de Mar, Barcelona, 3–5, 41–4, 46, 49, 59, 218

Locarno treaties, 87

Lochner, Louis, 75, 101, 192

Losch, Tilly, 231

Lufthansa, xiii, 78, 96, 210, 216–17, 219

Luxembourg, German occupation of (1940), 159

 

Maass, Emil, 114

MacCormac, John, 40

Mackensen, August von, 67

Maginot Line, 161–2

Manchester Guardian, 30, 113–14

McCarthyism, 228–32

McCormick, Katrina, 28

McCormick, Robert R. (“Colonel”), 5, 28–31, 33, 35, 37–8, 40–1, 43–4, 54, 230

and foreign correspondents, 28

praise for Shirer, 35

McDonald, James G., 50–1, 65–6

Medill, Joseph, 28

memoirs, 3, 10, 108, 109, 204, 209, 224, 228–32, 234–6, 237–8

See also Berlin Diary; End of a Berlin Diary; A Native’s Return: 1945–1988; Nightmare Years, The

Menjou, Adolphe, 97

“mercy deaths,” 204, 212

Metzner, Renate von, 70

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 11, 17

Miller, Douglas, 86

Miller, Webb, 30, 107, 138

Monkey Trial (Tennessee) (1925), 10

Mowrer, Edgar, 24, 51–2, 66, 81–2, 117

Munich Agreement (1938), 139, 141, 143, 199

Murphy, Pat, 71

Murrow, Edward R., xiii, 104, 105–7, 110, 113, 115–18, 121–2, 126, 138, 140–2, 187, 195–6, 199, 211, 213–14, 220–2, 227–34, 237

reconciliation attempt, 232–4

rift with Shirer, 227–30

saying goodbye to, 220–2

music (and Shirer), 4, 40, 44, 92, 124, 126, 130, 146, 156, 210, 222

Mussolini, Benito, 52, 80, 139, 173

Myths of the Twentieth Century, The (Rosenberg), 66

 

Nacht der langen Messer (Night of the Long Knives) (1934), 67, 102

Nation, The (magazine), 42

National Socialist German Workers Party, 35, 60, 70, 102, 205, 209

A Native’s Return: 1945–1988 (Shirer), 224, 231–4

Nazi Party, 24, 35, 44–5, 49–51, 59–72, 102, 235–6

and beheadings, 69–70, 102

See also censorship; concentration camps; Hitler, Adolf; Jews in WWII Europe; “mercy deaths”; Nuremberg Laws; Nuremberg rallies; Nuremberg trials; propaganda

NBC, 113, 139, 148, 182, 186–7

Netherlands, battle of (1940), 159–62, 164–5

New Deal, 80, 105

New York American, 30, 76, 103

New York Daily News, 85

New York Evening Post, 11, 24, 30, 42, 52, 59, 82

New York Herald (Paris), 14

New York Herald Tribune, 42, 75, 83, 89, 93, 155, 178, 192, 253

New York Post, 114

New York Sun, 30, 35

New York Times, 11, 25, 29, 37, 40, 42–3, 45, 51–2, 74, 83, 85, 92–3, 101–2, 111, 231, 235, 239

New York World, 54

Nightmare Years, The (Shirer), 204

nonfiction, see Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The

Nuremberg Laws, 80, 81–2, 108

Nuremberg rallies, 61–3, 80, 81, 107–10, 137

1933, 109

1934, 61–3

1935, 80, 81

1937, 107–10

1938, 137

Nuremberg trials (1945–1946), 226

 

Oechsner, Fred, 74, 107, 156, 191–2

Olympics, 83–6, 97

Outland, Ethel R., 8, 16, 35, 43, 46

 

Paley, William S., 106–7, 138–9, 228, 232

papers (of Shirer), 201, 210–11, 214–19, 228–9, 237–8

See also correspondence; diary

Paris, occupation of (1940), 175–81

Paul, Elliot, 17

Pegler, Westbrook, 85

Peshawar, 32–4

Pétain, Henri-Philippe, 21, 179

Peterson, Virgilia, 234

Phillips, William, 83

Pierson, Joseph, 29

Poland, invasion of (1939), 145–8, 151–3

Polish concentration camps/ghettos, 155–6

Polish Jews, 45, 133, 151, 155–6

Porter, Katherine Anne, 93–4

Portugal, 161–2, 172–4, 199–200, 205, 207, 210, 214, 216, 219–21, 223, 237

Pound, Ezra, 17–18

Presbyterianism, 6

print journalism career (Shirer)

See Chicago Tribune; Herald (Paris); International News Service; Universal Service

propaganda, see Propaganda Ministry

Propaganda Ministry, xii, 34, 62, 67, 69–70, 77–8, 81, 83–5, 88, 97, 103, 122, 139–43, 150–6, 159–60, 162, 166–8, 172–4, 190–8, 201–3, 205–6, 209–10, 217, 226

See also “invasion of England”

 

Quintanilla, Luis, 44

 

radio journalism career (Shirer), 112–18, 121–7, 132, 138, 152, 171–3, 181–8, 199

See also Columbia Broadcasting System

Red Channels, 231–2

Raeder, Erich, 181

Ragner, Bernhard, 25

Rath, Ernst von, 133

Rathenau, Walter, 24

rationing (Berlin) (1939), 153–7

Reagan, Ronald, 235–6

Reed, John, 6, 30

refugee, 65, 127, 135, 165–8, 173, 177–8, 180, 186–7, 207, 208, 219, 221

Reich Press Chamber, 76

Reichenau, Walter von, 169

Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG), 116, 122, 138, 142, 146, 156, 159, 173, 186, 191, 209–10, 212

Reichstag, 35, 51, 59–60, 68, 73, 80, 87–9, 91, 99, 101, 189, 198

Reid, John, 23

Reuters, 124, 137

Rhineland, remilitarization of (1936), 87–91

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 139, 144, 159–60, 173, 181–2

Riefenstahl, Leni, 61

right-wing groups (Europe), 24, 35, 44–5, 48–9, 52, 140

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The (Shirer), 230–2, 234, 240

Röhm, Ernst, 54

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 42, 50–1, 75, 80, 210, 227

Roosevelt, Nicholas, 41, 79–80

Roosevelt, Theodore, 6, 79

Rosenberg, Alfred, 66–7, 226

Rothschild family, 117

Russia, 6, 30, 34, 53, 69, 75, 94, 144–5, 225–6, 228

Russian revolution (1917), 6, 30

 

SA, see Sturmabteilung

Saturday Evening Post, 178

Scheidemann, Philipp, 24

Schultz, Sigrid, 24–5, 30, 40, 52, 66–7, 69, 74, 76, 83, 138, 146, 156, 173, 195, 211

Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 112–14, 118

Schutzstaffel (SS), 61, 63, 70, 85, 88, 115, 117–18, 123, 235

Scopes, John, 10

Segovia, Andres, 4–5

Sell, Kurt, 203

Shah, Nadir, 33

Sheean, Vincent, 10, 29

Sheehan, Neil, 240

Shirer, Bill (paternal uncle), 6, 9–10

Shirer, Eileen (daughter), xi, xiii, 112–13, 120–1, 124, 131, 139–40, 145, 150, 153, 160–1, 172, 174, 189, 198–201, 207–9, 221–2, 230, 243, 245

Shirer, Elizabeth (Bessie) (mother), 6–7, 68–9, 79–81, 103, 226–7

Shirer, John (brother), 5, 6, 34, 42, 46, 68, 79–81

Shirer, Josephine (sister), 6, 68–9

Shirer, Seward (father), 6–7, 69

Shirer, Theresa Stiberitz (“Tess”) (wife), xi, xiii, 3–5, 30, 34, 36, 37–47, 48–9, 55–6, 59–60, 64, 66–8, 72–3, 78–9, 81, 84–5, 91–5, 97, 99–100, 106, 111–14, 116, 118–19, 121–2, 124–5, 129–31, 139–42, 145, 148, 150, 153–4, 160–2, 172–4, 189–90, 198–201, 205, 207, 208–9, 211, 217–18, 221–2, 225, 227, 230–1, 233–7

childbirth, 112

divorce, 234–5

harassment of by SS, 124–5

health of, 38–9, 79, 112–14, 116, 118–19, 121–2, 124–5, 141

and helping Jews in Nazi Germany, 72–3

marriage of, 36, 37, 44, 91, 230, 234–5

and U.S. citizenship, 142

writer, 38–40

Shirer, William Lawrence (“Bill”)

career, see journalism career

correspondence, see correspondence

and depression, see depression

diary, see diary

divorce, 234–5

dreamer, 29–30

early loves of, 22, 30

education, see Coe College

extramarital affairs, 231, 234

in France, see France in WWII; France

pre-WWII German language, 40, 65, 73

German people, 143–4, 151, 154, 171–4, 212–13

as “the good American,” 241

marriage, 6, 37, 44, 91, 230, 234–5

See also Shirer, Theresa Stiberitz

and music, see music

on Nazism, 110–11

papers of, see papers

and religion, 6

writing of, see writer

youth of, 6–9

Simon, Charles, 18–19

Simon and Schuster, 231

Smith, H. J., 9

Smith, Howard K., 225–6

socialism, 28, 35, 50, 53–4, 60, 66, 70, 74, 102, 140, 205, 209

Solidarité Française, 52

sources, 68, 77–8, 87, 90, 97, 108, 143, 150, 212, 238

Soviet Union, 76, 144–5, 154, 192, 205

Spirit of St. Louis airplane, 25–8, 96

SS, see Schutzstaffel Steele, John, 40

Stein, Gertrude, 25

Stern, J. David, 42

Streicher, Julius, 62, 90, 102, 226

Sturmabteilung (SA), 49–51, 54, 63, 67, 115–16

Summer Olympics (Berlin) (1936), 97

The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), 95

Sunday World newspaper, 11

swastikas, 60, 82, 107, 114, 175, 177–8

Switzerland, 29, 73, 87, 93, 117, 122, 124–7, 132–3, 140, 142, 145, 148, 149–50, 153, 158, 160–1, 172, 174, 189, 196, 198–200, 202–3, 205–9, 233

Shirers’ move to, 124–7

 

T-4 program, 204, 212

Tauentzienstrasse, 64–6, 78, 225

Taverne (Berlin restaurant), 69, 72–5, 81, 90, 92, 107, 126, 144–6, 150, 159, 211

Taylor, Ed, 112, 114

Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 6

Thompson, Dorothy, 30, 59, 62, 82, 98

Thurber, James, 17, 19, 21–2

Tilden, Bill, 25

Times (London), 69, 74, 106

Toklas, Alice B., 25

Tolischus, Otto, 74, 83

totalitarianism, 60

Trask, Claire, 100, 107

Treaty of Versailles (1919), 71, 87–8, 120, 171, 185

Trevor, Jack, 205

Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl), 61

Turner, John B., 69

Tyrnauer, Alfred, 118–19

 

Udet, Ernst, 75–6

United Press, 30, 74, 107, 114, 156, 187, 191

Universal Service (US), 45, 54–6, 68, 70, 72, 76–7, 80, 91–2, 99–104, 106, 179

Universal Service correspondent (Shirer) (Berlin), 60–80, 81–6, 87–94, 95–8, 99–104, 106

as bureau head, 80

and censorship, 60–2, 66, 76–7, 81–4, 89, 100

folding of agency, 103

“German hater,” 83–4

and Gestapo, 81

and government secrecy, 76–7, 81, 88

and Hitler, 62–3, 73, 88–91, 99, 101–2

and informants, 87

Nuremberg Nazi rally, 61–3

plebiscites, 70, 91–2

routine, 64–5, 92

and sources, 77–8

universal military service, 71

Versailles, 71

Winter Olympics, 83–6, 101

 

Vadnai, Emil, 37, 111

Verdun, battle of (1916), 53, 176, 179

Vienna, 3–4, 28–30, 33–6, 37–41, 44–5, 59, 79, 92, 98, 110–11, 112–18, 121–6, 128–35, 138, 179, 199, 207, 230, 233–4, 239, 242

See also Katz, Helene

Vietnam War, 240

Vinogradov, Boris, 76

Völkischer Beobachter (VP), 85, 174, 196, 216–17

 

Wales, Henry, 21–8, 41, 44

Weimar Republic, 24

Weizsäcker, Richard von, 235–6

Wells, H. G., 20

Wessel, Horst, 75

Weygand, Maxime, 185

White, Paul, 116, 122, 138–9, 141–2, 192, 198, 199–201, 203, 211, 225

Wiegand, Karl von, 45, 55

Wiley, John, 111, 114, 119, 131–4

Wilhelmstrasse (Foreign Ministry), 71, 87–94, 101, 196, 225

Williams, Wythe, 29

Wilson, Woodrow, 18, 178

Winter Olympics (Garmisch-Partenkirchen) (1936), 83–6, 101

Wolfe, Thomas, 98–9

Wong, Anna May, 40

Wood, Grant, 8, 14, 22–4, 68–9

World War I, 7, 10–11, 13, 18–19, 21, 24–5, 30, 39, 50–1, 54, 70, 72, 78, 82, 87, 90, 123, 129, 140, 165–6, 169, 176, 178–9, 181, 185, 238

Wright brothers, 7

writer, 3–12, 41–6, 95, 101, 133–4

career as, see print journalism career

freelance, 41–6

novel, 95, 101

plays, 3, 5, 133–4

routine of, 3–4

year of writing, see Lloret de Mar

See also correspondence; diary; memoirs; nonfiction

 

Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), 134

Yugoslavia, 94, 113, 123