Sigrid Schultz was a notable American reporter and war correspondent in an era when women were a rarity in both print and radio journalism.
16 Facts About Sigrid Schultz
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Sigrid Schultz's parents were of Norwegian ancestry, and her father was a well-known painter who had studied at the Academie de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, France.
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In 1901, when Sigrid Schultz was eight, her father obtained a commission to paint the king and queen of Wurttemberg in Germany and the family moved to Europe.
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Some sources claim that while in Germany with her mother, she fell ill with what was believed to be tuberculosis, leading her to be forced to remain in Germany during World War I; however, Sigrid Schultz herself wrote that she remained in Germany due to her parents' illness, and that around this period she studied history and international law at Berlin University.
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Sigrid Schultz joined the Tribune in 1919 and, with fluency in several languages to her credit, became the chief for Central Europe in 1926.
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Sigrid Schultz had been named the chief of the Berlin bureau for the Tribune late in 1925.
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At that time, Sigrid Schultz worked with Richard Henry Little and Floyd Gibbons.
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Sigrid Schultz interviewed Adolf Hitler several times and her firsthand knowledge of Germany's leaders helped her to accurately report their intentions and goals, as Nazi Germany's ambitions posed an increasing threat to world peace.
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Sigrid Schultz reported on the many military triumphs of the Wehrmacht during the first year of World War II, but was not permitted to travel to the front because she was a woman.
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Sigrid Schultz left Germany after being injured in an Allied air raid on Berlin.
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Sigrid Schultz returned to Europe as a war correspondent in January, 1945 and accompanied the US Army on the advance of the Allied armies into Germany.
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Sigrid Schultz was one of the first journalists to visit Buchenwald and she reported on the Nuremberg Trial.
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Sigrid Schultz was working on a history of antisemitism in Germany when she died in 1980.
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Sigrid Schultz often refers to the Nazi's skill at "war-in-peace" which bears striking resemblances to the post-1945 Cold War, and may well have served as its roots.
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Sigrid Schultz covers the successful appeal of the Nazis to both British and American corporations to ally themselves with Germany in a fight against Communism.
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On May 15,1980, Sigrid Schultz died in her Westport, Connecticut, retirement home.