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
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
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
BBC, see British Broadcasting Corporation
Beach, Sylvia, 19
Beattie, Ed, 74
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
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
final trip to (1985), 235–6
getting papers out of (1940), 210–11, 214–19
rationing (1939), 153–7
ruins of (1945), 224–7
Berlin Diary (1941) (Shirer), 149, 201, 224–6, 231, 238
Bess, Demaree, 178
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
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
firing of, 40–2, 95, 102, 104, 178, 218, 230
and foreign assignments, 21, 25, 28
and his peers, 24–5
See also Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
night copydesk (first year), 14–20, 48
Vienna, 25, 28–30, 34–6, 39–40
Chladek, Katja Maria, 135
Christian Science Monitor, 45, 187
Christian Social Party, 45
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
See also censorship
in France, see France in WWII
and German-Soviet alliance, 144–5
and harassment by SS, 123–5
and “invasion of England,” 190–2
invasion of Poland, 145–8
praise for Shirer, 138–9
radio broadcast of Anschluss (1938), 115–18
and refugee issue, 127
resignation from, 227–30
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
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
Darrah, David, 14–17
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, 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
Ebbutt, Norman, 69, 71, 74, 83, 103, 126–7, 155
End of a Berlin Diary (Shirer), 226
Enderis, Guido, 51, 74, 92–3, 101, 239
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
Fodor, Marcel, 30, 114–16, 119
Foreign Ministry, see Wilhelmstrasse
France in WWII (1940), 158–88, 199, 207
battle of France, 159–74
occupation of, 175–81, 199, 207
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-Prussian War (1870–1871), 13, 123
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
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
Hass, Amira, 240
Hauptmann, Bruno Richard, 96
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
and French riots (1934), 53–4
reporter, 52–4
Herald Tribune, 79
Herriot, Édouard, 54
Hess, Rudolf, 62, 139, 181, 226
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
appearance by, 123–4
and Aryan “race,” 120
attacks on Jews, 109
and Chamberlain, 139
and fall of France (1940), 181–2
Reichstag speech (1940), 189
and Rhineland, 88–91
suicide of, 225–6
Holzer, Anton, 135
Huntziger, Charles, 185
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
See also anti-Semitism; Austrian Jews; concentration camps; German Jews; Nazi party; Nuremberg laws; Polish Jews
Johnson, Philip, 152
journalism career (Shirer)
See print journalism career; radio journalism career
Joyce, James, 19
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
Khan, Mohammed Zahir, 31–3
Kipling, Rudyard, 32
Klemperer, Victor, 8, 49, 109, 156–7, 238
Knickerbocker, H. R., 51–2, 62, 83, 94
Kohl, Helmut, 236
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) (1938), 131, 133
Kropf, Otto, 186
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
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
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
Metzner, Renate von, 70
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 11, 17
Miller, Douglas, 86
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
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 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 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 rallies, 61–3, 80, 81, 107–10, 137
1933, 109
1934, 61–3
1937, 107–10
1938, 137
Nuremberg trials (1945–1946), 226
Oechsner, Fred, 74, 107, 156, 191–2
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tauentzienstrasse, 64–6, 78, 225
Taverne (Berlin restaurant), 69, 72–5, 81, 90, 92, 107, 126, 144–6, 150, 159, 211
Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 6
Thompson, Dorothy, 30, 59, 62, 82, 98
Tilden, Bill, 25
Toklas, Alice B., 25
totalitarianism, 60
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
and sources, 77–8
universal military service, 71
Versailles, 71
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
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
Wiley, John, 111, 114, 119, 131–4
Wilhelmstrasse (Foreign Ministry), 71, 87–94, 101, 196, 225
Williams, Wythe, 29
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
routine of, 3–4
year of writing, see Lloret de Mar
See also correspondence; diary; memoirs; nonfiction
Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), 134