History Happy Hour Episode 211 – Reporting on the Nazis
Guest: Pamela D. Toler
Sunday, August 18, 2024
This Week on History Happy Hour: From 1925 to January 1941, Sigrid Schultz was The Chicago Tribune’s Berlin bureau chief. She witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters—male or female—to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism. We explore her extraordinary time there with Pamela Toler, author of the new book "The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany."
William Shirer summed up her career this way: “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.”
We’ll dig into her story Sunday at 4PM ET on History Happy Hour, where history is always on tap.
