"This Is Berlin": Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer was the first journalist hired by CBS to cover World War II in Europe, where he worked as a news broadcaster for over a decade. This book compiles two and a half years of his wartime radio broadcasts from the period. Shirer reported from Nazi-occupied and war-torn Europe, including coverage of Hitler's invasion of Austria and the Anschluss, as well as the first reports to the United States on the June 1940 armistice between France and Nazi forces. His daily news roundups from Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Rome, and London documented Nazi Germany and conditions in invaded and warring nations. These broadcasts brought immediacy and vivid storytelling of World War II to American and worldwide listeners. Shirer's later works, including Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, became definitive historical accounts of the war. This collection presents his original radio broadcasts, offering contemporary perspective on the events of World War II.