Word: shirer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone too in the forest of Compiègne where Shirer broadcast the signing of the Franco-German armistice, and got one of his great news scoops-some three hours ahead of all newspaper correspondents. "Through my glasses I saw the Führer stop, glance at the [Alsace-Lorraine] monument...
Scoop. Newscaster Shirer knew that the Germans had hidden microphones in the armistice car. So he looked until he found a sound truck in the woods. "No one stops me so I pause to listen. It is just before the armistice is signed. I hear General Huntziger's voice, strained, quivering. I note down his exact words in French. They came out slowly, with great effort, one at a time. He says...
...last section of Shirer's book has the smothered, nightmare quality of a man held prisoner by an enemy who will tell him nothing about what he wants most desperately to know-the fate of England. British air raids exhilarated him as they did the Belgians who "kept hoping the British bombers would come over. They did not seem to mind if the British bumped them off if only the R.A.F. got the Germans...
...Wrote Shirer in Berlin: "We had our first big air raid of the war last night. . . . For the first time British bombers came directly over the city, and they dropped bombs. . . . Not a plane was brought down. . . , There was a pellmell, frightened rush to the cellars by the five million people who live in this town...
Again & again Author Shirer urges the British to bomb Berlin regularly even if they can spare only a few planes. He says the Germans simply cannot take...