William L. Shirer

William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 ? December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and historian and was one of the most famous journalists in the world. Shirer became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin during the Third Reich through the first year of World War II.

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February 23 - 1904 - December 28 - 1993 - American - CBS - Berlin - Third Reich - World War II

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Shirer first became famous through his account of those years in his Berlin Diary (published in 1941), but Shirer's largest achievement was his 1959 book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. This twelve-hundred page book, still in print, is a detailed examination of the Third Reich filled with historical information from German archives captured at the end of the war, along with impressions Shirer gained during his days as a correspondent in Berlin and a denunciation of the evils of Nazism and tyranny.

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Berlin Diary - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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