William Shirer

William Shirer was an American journalist and historian in the twentieth century. He was a reporter for CBS News in the 1930s and 1940s and in that capacity was stationed as foreign correspondent in Nazi Germany. He later published his diary from this period as Berlin Diary. He also wrote a history of Nazi Germany called The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. He also wrote a biography of Hitler called The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler.