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    William L. Shirer

    American journalist, war correspondent, and author (–)

    William L. Shirer

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    Born

    William Lawrence Shirer


    ()February 23,

    Chicago, Illinois

    DiedDecember 28, () (aged&#;89)

    Boston, Massachusetts

    NationalityAmerican
    Alma&#;materCoe College
    Occupation(s)Journalist, historian
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    William Lawrence Shirer (; February 23, – December 28, ) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian. His The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany, has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 60 years; its 50th anniversary was marked by a new edition of the book.

    As a young man just out of college, in Shirer was hired by the Chicago Tribune and l

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    (1) William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ()

    At eighteen, several thousand of the girls in the Bund Deutscher Mädel (they remained in it until 21) did a year's service on the farms - their so-called 'Land Jahr', which was equivalent to the Labour Service of the young men. Their task was to help both in the house and in the fields. The girls lived sometimes in the farmhouses and often in small camps in rural districts from which they were taken by truck early each morning to the farms.

    Moral problems soon arose. Actually, the more sincere Nazis did not consider them moral problems at all. On more than one occasion I listened to women leaders of the Bund Deutscher Mädel lecture their young charges on the moral and patriotic duty of bearing children for Hitler's Reich - within wedlock if possible, but without it if necessary.

    (2) William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ()

    Despite his ha

  • william shirer biography

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    William L. Shirer


    Born

    in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

    February 23,


    Died

    December 28,


    Genre

    History, Nonfiction, Memoirs


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    William Lawrence Shirer was an American reporter and historian. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin through the first year of World War II.

    Shirer first became famous through his konto of those years in his Berlin Diary (published in ), but his greatest achievement was his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, originally published bygd Simon & Schuster. This book of well over pages fryst vatten still in print, and is a detailed examination of the Third Reich filled with historical resultat from German archives captured at the end of the war, along with impressions Shirer gained during his days as a correspondent in Berlin. Later, in , his work The Collapse of the Third Republic drew William Lawrence Shirer was an American reporter and historian. He became known for his broadcasts o