Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-41 by William L. Shirer & Gordon A. Craig

Author:William L. Shirer & Gordon A. Craig [Shirer, William L. & Craig, Gordon A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Memoir
ISBN: 9780801870569
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Publisher: Amazon Digital Services Inc.
Published: 1941-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

BERLIN, May 9

What an irony that Webb Miller, who had spent most of the last twenty-four years covering wars, and was often under fire, should have escaped them all only to die by falling out of a railroad coach far from a field of battle! The German press full of absurd stories today that Webb was murdered by the British secret service. This is worse than nonsense. Contemptible. (What happens to the inner fabric of a people when they are fed lies like this daily?)

Hitler, in ordering the release of some Norwegian prisoners, proclaims today: “Against the will of the German people and its government, King Haakon of Norway and his army staff brought about war against Germany”!

LATER.—The shouting headlines increased in size tonight, all thundering the accusation that England plans a big act of aggression, somewhere. “BRITAIN PLOTS TO SPREAD THE WAR,” they roar.

All of which moved me to say in my broadcast tonight. “Regardless of who spreads it, there seems little doubt that it will spread. And it may well be, as many people over here think, that the war will be fought and decided before the summer is over. People somehow seem to feel that the Whitsuntide holidays this week-end will be the last holidays Europe will observe for some time.”

My censors didn’t like the paragraph, but after some argument they let it pass. Their line was that there was no question of Germany spreading the war.

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