Toler, who has a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, told me during an interview that she “totally just stumbled” onto the story “by accident,” having read an article about old photographs discovered in the attic of a house in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. Toler’s book introduces the reader to a time long before computers and television, when people could experience the thrill of grabbing the first edition of a newspaper when it came off the press, and reporters stationed in Berlin gathered at the Hotel Adlon bar to exchange the latest news. An example of the close contact between Schultz and Shirer was the phone call she placed to him at 6 a.m. at the end of August 1939, from her observer position across from the German parliament, telling him with the words “It’s happened,” that Germany had invaded Poland.
Author: BY GEORGE MEDOVOY
Published at: 2025-05-24 20:55:29
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