
Reporting on Hitler
Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Allegedly the only man capable of holding the Führer's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars and ran the Daily Mail's bureau in Berlin throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The enigmatic former clergyman was one of the first journalists to interview Adolf Hitler, meeting the future Führer days before the Munich Putsch.While the awful realities of the Third Reich were becoming apparent on the ground in Germany, in Britain the Daily Mail continued to support the Nazi regime. Reynolds's time as a foreign correspondent in Nazi Germany provides some startling insights into the muzzling of the international press prior to the Second World War, as journalists walked uneasy tightropes between their employers' politics and their own journalistic integrity. As war approached, the stakes - and the threats from the Gestapo - rose dramatically.Reporting on Hitler reveals the gripping story of Rothay Reynolds and the intrepid foreign correspondents who reported on some of the twentieth century's most momentous events in the face of sinister propaganda, brazen censorship and the threat of expulsion - or worse - if they didn't toe the Nazis' line. It uncovers the bravery of the forgotten heroes from a golden age of British journalism, who risked everything to tell the world the truth.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Photograph permissions
- A Note on Newspapers
- Cast of Correspondents
- Prologue: Death of a Correspondent
- I: The Restive Curate
- II: Land of the Tsars
- III: War and MI7
- IV: Weimar Germany
- V: ‘A Mesmeric Stare’
- VI: Rise of the Nazis
- VII: Hitler Takes Over
- VIII: Nights at the Taverne
- IX: ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’
- X: A Contested Vote
- XI: Rhineland
- XII: ‘The Best Correspondent Here Left This Evening’
- XIII: Appeasement Builds
- XIV: Anschluss
- XV: ‘Quarrel in a Far-Away Country’
- XVI: Broken Glass
- XVII: When Freedom Shrieked
- XVIII: A Final Assignment
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- A Short Newspaper Guide
- List of Cited Works
- Endnotes
- Index
- Copyright
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