The Woman Who Interviewed Hitler
The LRB Podcast
The One Reporter Who Got an Interview With Hitler
In 1920, there are more than 2,000 American daily newspapers. They all need reporters. Dorothy Thompson had a lot of hutsba. She wasn't above forging a travel visa using the seal from a coffee can to make it look official. Once dressed up as a Red Cross nurse in order to get an interview. And now we might say morally dubious, but she got the story.
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