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Dorothy Thompson

NBC News: Germany Invades Poland, 1939

In the 1930s, Dorothy Thompson made a name for herself by decrying the rising power of Adolf Hitler. Here, in a broadcast from September 1, 1939, she gives her reaction to Germany’s invasion of Poland.
 

Career Includes

Newspaper Correspondent, Magazine Journalist (1920–60); “On the Record” Newspaper Columnist (1936–58); Radio Commentator, NBC’s Red and Blue Networks (1936–38), Hour of Charm, (1938–39), Mutual Network (1940–41), NBC Blue (1942–45), Mutual (1945); Author, I Saw Hitler (1932), Let the Record Speak (1939)
 

Education

Syracuse University, 1914, AB
 

Born

July 09, 1893
Lancaster, New York

 

Died

January 30, 1961
Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

 

 

 


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