The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Trivia

Shirer spent many years in the company of Mohandas Gandhi. According to at least one source, the journalist in the film Gandhi is based on William L. Shirer. (Source)

Because of problems with radio transmissions, Shirer was able to broadcast the fall of France to the world before Hitler did. Now that's a scoop. (Source)

Feel up to reading another book with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in its title? There's always The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich—a biography of Shirer by the writer Steve Wick. (Source)

According to at least one source, William L. Shirer didn't feel that he had a good voice for radio. All the same, his broadcasts during the Second World War made history... literally. (Source)

William L. Shirer wrote more than one book about Nazi Germany. For a condensed version of the story that he tells in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, why not check out his Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler? (Source)