A review by notmignon
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-41 by William L. Shirer

4.0

This is a long book (about 600 pages) with which I had a love-hate relationship. Despite this - Overall, the perspective was amazing - an American correspondent who had been living in Europe total of 15 years, had access to the power and much information about what was going on as Hitlers came to power and expanded the "Reich", and had the critical thoughts to put things together. He was censored during his normal correspondence with America by the propaganda machine, so he could never report the whole truth or even parts of it at times, but he kept a journal detailing as much as possible about how this happened.
Reading this today, paired with and compared against the moves (or attempts of our current president to discount the media and further divide the country, I become very concerned and am thinking of taking up a similar journal project