Word: hottelet
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Over 200 reporters and photographers convened for the war games in Louisiana. A good many of them were veterans of the maneuver circuit, having followed the Armies in preliminary exercises in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana. Some were veterans of the real thing-among them U.P.'s Richard Hottelet, fresh from a German prison, and Leon Kay, who saw the Nazi invasions of the Low Countries and the Balkans; CBS's tall, handsome Eric Sevareid, who arrived from London with a group of British observers...
After four months in Nazi prison camps, two U.S. foreign correspondents last week got their voices back. The two prisoners were Jay Allen, 41-year-old, Seattle-born veteran foreign correspondent (NANA) and 24-year-old, Brooklyn-born U.P. Correspondent Richard Hottelet, who steamed into New York Harbor aboard the U.S. transport West Point. Some of their experiences...
...Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...
Only twice was young Hottelet allowed to see a U.S. official and then not allowed to discuss his "case." He was released July 8 with neither forewarning nor explanation...
...were Dr. Manfred Zapp and Günther Tonn, U.S. managers of the Nazi Transocean News Service (now closed), who had failed to register with the State Department as foreign agents. The newsmen were to be exchanged for two U.S. newsmen, Jay Allen of North American Newspaper Alliance, Richard Hottelet of United Press, "detained" by the Nazis since March...