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Edward R. Murrow

Legendary CBS radio broadcaster whose live London Blitz reports brought WWII into American homes.

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Dorothy Thompson

Pioneering journalist who sounded the alarm on fascism; the first American expelled from Nazi Germany.

Ernie Pyle

Pulitzer-winning columnist who chronicled WWII through the gritty, exhausted perspective of the ordinary foot soldier.

Kristallnacht, Nov 9-10, 1938

Sigrid Schultz

Fearless Chicago Tribune Berlin bureau chief who covertly reported on the Nazi regime's rise.

The invasion of Poland, Sept. 1, 1939

William L. Shirer

CBS broadcaster in Berlin who famously chronicled the Nazi threat in Berlin Diary.

The fall of France and the Blitz, 1940

Louis P. Lochner

Pulitzer-winning AP Berlin bureau chief who provided vital early coverage of the Nazi regime.

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People

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Edward R. Murrow

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Dorothy Thompson

Ernie Pyle

Kristallnacht, Nov 9-10, 1938

Sigrid Schultz

The invasion of Poland, Sept. 1, 1939

William L. Shirer

The fall of France and the Blitz, 1940

Louis P. Lochner

Pearl Harbor and American entry, December 1941

D-Day and the liberation of France, 1944

Liberation of the concentration camps, 1944-45

Germany’s surrender, May 1945

Berlin

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945

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