persons Shirer, William Lawrence

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Name Shirer, William Lawrence
Alternative Names
ID 523
Gender male
Lifespan 1904-02-23 - 1993-12-28
Professions historian (Q201788), journalist (Q1930187), foreign correspondent (Q18190897), radio presenter, foreign correspondent, American, autobiographer
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    • Uri(s) http://https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/523/
    Notes Shirer, a prominent journalist, foreign correspondent and witness of crucial events in Central Europe, offered regular reports on Austria for the Chicago Tribune and published various pertinent essays. Shirer was the first to arrange a program combining eye-witness accounts of the historic events surrounding the Anschluss with comments from various capitals of Europe to a roundup broadcast via the CBS radio network (Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, 247).
    References Shirer's Papers are held by Coe College in Iowa. Ken Cuthbertson, A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015.

    Relations

    Event

    Start End Other relation type Related Event
    1938 — related >> witnessed the brutality of the Nazi mob directed against Jews after the Anschluss
    1929 — related >> participated in >> had detailed insights into Viennese life through his Viennese wife

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1927 1932-10 related >> worked for/at Chicago Tribune
    1933 1934 related >> worked for/at >> was editor of New York Herald Tribune
    1925 — related >> studied at >> graduated from Coe College
    1929 1932 related >> visited Café Louvre
    1937 — related >> worked for/at Columbia Broadcasting System
    1934 1937-08 related >> worked for/at Berlin bureau of Hearst’s Universal News Service
    1929 1932 related Central Telegraph Office Vienna
    1930-06-24 — established >> founding member of Anglo-American Press Association
    — — related Radio Austria AG
    1925 1938 related >> visited the Stammtisch of foreign correspondents at the Café Louvre

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    1931-01-31 1970 related >> in a relationship with >> married to Stiberitz Shirer, Theresa
    — — related >> friendship with >> close friendship with Gunther, John
    — — related >> friendship with Thompson, Dorothy
    — — related >> friendship with >> close friendship with Lewis, Sinclair
    — — related >> acquainted with Gedye, George Eric Rowe
    — — related >> friendship with >> close friendship with Gunther, Frances
    — — related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with Gunther, John
    — — related >> acquainted with Fodor, Marcel
    — — related >> collaborated with >> colleague of Duranty, Walter
    — — related >> friendship with Murrow, Edward R.

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1938 — moved to London
    1952 — visited Vienna
    — 1993 stayed in 22 Sunset Ave, Lenox, MA 01240, USA

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    — — related >> wrote >> author of The Traitor
    1960 — related >> wrote >> author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    1941 — related >> wrote >> author of Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941.
    1976 — related >> wrote >> author of 20th Century Journey
    1932-11 1970 related >> wrote >> author of Private correspondence of the Shirers and John Gunther including political commentary
    — — related >> wrote reports on Austria and the Austrian Civil War (William Shirer)
    — — related >> appears/appeared in >> as fictionalized character The Traitor
    — — related >> appears/appeared in >> as fictionalized character The Lost City

    Label

    Label Start End Label type ISO Code
    Stiberitz Shirer, Theresa "Tess" — — Legacy name (merge) deu
    http://https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/524/ — — Legacy URI (merge) deu

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