Shirer


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United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)

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Third Reich by William Shirer. She continued, very slowly now: "So, Hitler believed he was following a moral imperative, doing the right thing, when he set out to strengthen the German community by eliminating all non-Aryans?"
Historian William Shirer exemplified what is, for Styron, this critical negligence when in 1961 he characterized the Holocaust and its camps as symptoms of Adolf Hitler's murderous Jew-hatred, a campaign of execution created by an "evil genius, one of the crudest, most bloodthirsty and barbarous tyrants who ever lived" (4).
Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by George Romoser of Ohio State University.
Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'' and began his historical odyssey, first with World War II, which he says was a continuation of World War I, and then worked his way through the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, but never quite got to the Revolutionary War in his youth.
Dorothy Thompson, William Shirer, Bella Fromm, Howard K.
Shirer, Tongia, GS-14; AFCAA/FMI--Joint Base Andrews
Shirer; news coverage of the war including speeches by Adolf Hider, Winston Churchill, Pope Pius XI, Franklin D.
The novel is sprinkled with some real persons, such as William Shirer at the start of his career.