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Language English Media type Print Country United States of America | 4.3/5 Goodreads Publication date 1941 Originally published 1941 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Biography, History, Autobiography Similar William L Shirer books, Germany books, Adolf Hitler books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Berlin Diary (1934–1941) is a first-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer. Shirer, a radio reporter for CBS, covered Germany for several years until the Nazi press censors made it impossible for him to report objectively to his listeners in the United States; feeling increasingly uncomfortable, he left the country. The identities of many of Shirer's German sources were disguised to protect these people from retaliation by the German secret police, the Gestapo. The contents of this book provided much of the material for his landmark book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
In 1947, End of a Berlin Diary continued and finished the story of the Third Reich, from July 20, 1944, to the Nuremberg Trials.