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William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian. His history of Nazi Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), has been read and cited in scholarly works for more than 60 years; its 50th anniversary was marked by a new edition of the book.
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culture · American journalist, war correspondent, and author (1904–1993) · journalist · historian · writer · actor · also William L. Shirer, William Lawrence Shirer, Wm. L. Shirer, Shirer
Born 23 February 1904 · Died 28 December 1993 · Q327287
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If we do not hold the Rhine permanently [Foch told them] there is no neutralization, no disarmament, no written clause of any nature, which can prevent Germany from breaking out across it and gaining the upper hand. No aid could arrive in time from England or America to save France from complete defeat.
I had no intention of staying on with CBS so that Paley and Murrow could humiliate me further.
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“If we do not hold the Rhine permanently [Foch told them] there is no neutralization, no disarmament, no written clause of any nature, which can prevent Germany from breaking out across it and gaining the upper hand. No aid could arrive in time from England or America to save France from complete defeat.”
“I had no intention of staying on with CBS so that Paley and Murrow could humiliate me further.”
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Dollars) and promised another $5,000 six months later, enabling Shirer to finish his monumental tome
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The Nation: William L. Shirer
Died 1993-12-28.
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Rebuffed her attempts to learn the source of the breach that opened between the two journalists 45 years earlier
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Awarded George Polk Award (1983).
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Married Martha Pelton, whom he divorced in 1975
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Awarded National Book Award (1961).
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Awarded The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism (1961).
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Simon & Schuster published Shirer's best-known work, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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Culminating in Shirer's leaving CBS in one of the great confrontations of American broadcast journalism (below)
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To the American people before it had been announced by the Germans
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Shirer moved forward with the German troops, reporting firsthand on the German "Blitzkrieg"
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And the German invasion of Poland that launched World War II on September 1, 1939
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When the German annexation of Austria (Anschluss) took place after weeks of mounting pressure by Nazi Germany on the Austrian government
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And then after Hitler's establishment of the Third Reich worked as a correspondent in Berlin from 1934 to 1940
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In 1931, Shirer married Theresa ("Tess") Stiberitz, an Austrian photographer.
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Shirer married Theresa ("Tess") Stiberitz, an Austrian photographer
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Shirer was hired by the Chicago Tribune and later worked for the International News Service; he was the first reporter hired by Edward R
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Shirer lived and worked in Paris for several years starting in 1925.
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His father, a lawyer, died of peritonitis in 1913, when Shirer was 9 years old.
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When Shirer was 9 years old
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Born 1904-02-23.
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