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    offered Shirer a job subject to an audition—a "trial broadcast"—to let CBS directors and vice presidents in New York judge Shirer's voice. Shirer feared...
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  • (link) William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2011, p. 263 William L. Shirer, The...
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  • Church" in Dictionary of the Christian Church, F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingston, eds.; William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (New York:...
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  • Berlin Diary (category Books by William L. Shirer)
    and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer. Shirer covered Germany for several years as a radio reporter for CBS...
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    Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a book by American journalist William L. Shirer in which the author chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from...
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  • limited versions of the series on DVD. Sam Waterston as William L. Shirer Marthe Keller as Tess Shirer Kurtwood Smith as Joseph Goebbels Ronald Pickup as Ernst...
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    A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0773597242. William L. Shirer (1990). 20th Century...
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  • Press, 1996, p. 354 William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 1047. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of...
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  • again until victory is secured, or I will not survive the outcome. William L. Shirer observed that "Only once that day did Hitler utter the truth. In the...
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    granted him the best assignments and rapid promotions. Journalist William L. Shirer and historian Ian Kershaw characterise him as cynical and disreputable...
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  • Kershaw 2008, p. 221. Gunther 1940, p. 21. Rosenbaum 1992. Shirer 1960, p. 132. Shirer 1960, pp. 132–133. Robinson 2017. Bibliography Bullock, Alan...
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    1994; p.267 John Toland; Hitler; Wordsworth Editions; 1997 Edn; p.760 William L. Shirer; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Secker & Warburg; London; 1960;...
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    which Murrow and Shirer pioneered in 1938. The original Boys, and some of their notable CBS beats during the war, included: William L. Shirer, who covered...
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  • Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt is a 1962 historical nonfiction book by William L. Shirer. It tells the story of the Royal Navy's hunt to destroy the German...
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  • American author William L. Shirer (1904-1993), American journalist and war correspondent This page lists people with the surname Shirer. If an internal...
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    L. M. "Frederick Flick's Opportunism and Expediency". Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies. Anti-Defamation League. 13 (2). William L. Shirer,...
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  • The Collapse of the Third Republic (category Books by William L. Shirer)
    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...
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    p. 355. Shirer, p. 291. Kallis, p. 113. Rupert Matthews, Hitler: Military Commander (Arcturus, 2003), page 116. Heinemann, p. 115. Shirer, pp. 293 &...
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  • Kershaw 2008, p. 317. Shirer 1960, p. 229. Noakes & Pridham 1998, p. 185. Evans 2005, p. 42. Shirer 1960, p. 227. Shirer 1960, pp. 181, 227–229. Evans...
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    attempt would spark a civil war. According to journalist and author William L. Shirer, Rommel knew about the conspiracy and advocated that Hitler be arrested...
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  • utter destruction of both the Protestant and the Catholic Church." Shirer, William L., Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, pp...
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    days of May 1940 proved to be disastrous. Historian and journalist William L. Shirer presented the view that Gamelin used World War I methods to fight...
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    this propaganda use of his craft. According to American reporter William L. Shirer, "Hugo Eckener, who is getting [the Hindenburg] ready for its maiden...
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    enlisted many new officers and men from the Hitler Youth. The American William L. Shirer reported that all ranks ate the same rations, socialized when off...
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    and 20th Century: Vol 4 The 20th Century in Europe (1961) pp 176–88 William L. Shirer; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Secker & Warburg; London; 1960;...
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    from the crimes committed by Röhm). Shirer also noted Lutze speaking there (Lutze reaffirmed the SA's loyalty). Shirer described Lutze as possessing a shrill...
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  • on Germany's ice hockey team. A few weeks before the Games began, William L. Shirer, the Berlin correspondent for the Universal wire service, wrote a...
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    presumably increased Hitler's determination to avoid capture and William L. Shirer thought that knowledge of the events surrounding Mussolini's death...
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    treason. Soon afterward, Shirer released a novel The Traitor (1950) in which "the main characters were journalists resembling Shirer and Best." Donald S....
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  • goal had to be a long-term rather than a short-term Nazi objective." Shirer, William L., Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, p....
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