People

Gunther Goldschmidt, born 1914 in Oldenburg

He studied music during the final years of Weimar but was expelled in 1933 on account of his Jewish heritage. Fleeing to Sweden in 1935 he returned to Germany to marry his sweetheart. They will eventually flee the Reich together.

Sebastian Haffner, born 1907 in Berlin.

He was a young man living in the German capital when the Empire collapsed and the Weimar Republic rose. He attended university and had a successful career as a lawyer. He fled to Britain in 1938 with his fiancée. There he became a notable journalist.

William L Shirer, born 1904 in Chicago.

CBS correspondent in Berlin from 1937 to 1940, when Nazi security police informed him he had to leave Germany. He smuggled his manuscript out when he left. Authored: Berlin Diary (1941), Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), and more.