History Happy Hour

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.”

Pamela D. Toler, PhD is a historian who has written ten books of popular history for children and adults, including Heroines of Mercy Street: Real Nurses of the Civil War and Women Warriors: An Unexpected History. Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Aramco World, Calliope, History Channel Magazine, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Ms., Time.com and The Washington Post.