Sigrid Schultz — “The Dragon from Chicago” with Pamela Toler

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As Berlin bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 1925-1941, Sigrid Schultz deflected both sexism and danger to report the truth and speak truth to power. The Nazis dubbed her “that dragon from Chicago,” and her importance as an indomitable “newspaperman” (her term) telling Americans about the Third Reich's agenda can’t be understated. Amy speaks this week with Pamela Toler, the author of a new biography on Schultz’s life, work and lasting legacy.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany by Pamela Toler

Women Warriors: An Unexpected Historyby Pamela Toler

Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela Toler

The Chicago Tribune

McCall’s Magazine

Friederich Ebert

Hermann Goering

Joseph Goebbels

Hotel Adlon

Richard Henry Little, a.k.a. Dick Little 

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

Erik Larson’s In The Garden of Beasts

Germany Will Try it Again by Sigrid Schultz

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