Sigrid Schultz
Anne O’Hare McCormick: “Freedom Reporter”
Like Sigrid Schultz, Anne O’Hara McCormick (1880-1954) became a foreign correspondent because she was in the right place at the right time. She already had experience as a journalist before she became a foreign correspondent. After her graduation from a private Catholic high school in 1898, she went to work for the Catholic Universe Bulletin…
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Bella Fromm’s Berlin Social Diary
Over the last four years, I’ve read a lot of memoirs and diaries written by people who lived in Berlin in the period between the two world wars. They are a wonderful source to use to enrich a story. They not only allow you to look at incidents from different perspectives but, depending on the…
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Cultural Currency–Nazi-style
In my last post, I wrote about Sigrid Schultz’s columns titled “From Across the Sea” and the fact that they gave me close up glimpses of life in Nazi Germany. One column that caught my attention in particular was the plan to issue “Kulturemarks” which appeared in her column on March 4, 1938–eight days before…
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