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In 1930, Dorothy Thompson joined his husband, Sinclair Lewis, in Sweden and the Nobel Award in the literature. Although Lewis was famous for the first American to be honored, Tekin was a less known writer. At that time, Tompson, who had been a foreign correspondent in Berlin, where we were a mother. For several years, he will be personally expelled by Adolf Hitler and is Stalwart for millions of radio listeners during World War II.

Thompson first faced Nazi’s movement when he was the first-time correspondent of Philadelphia in the early 1920s A non-remedial accountant. Hitler, headlines in 1923, made headlines for a failed blow to the Munich, known as the beer’s bowl putsch. Thompson immediately attempted to meet Hitler about the Nazi party that grows.

“No one has taken them seriously in terms of taking them strength,” Peter Kurth is authored American Cassandra: Dorothy Thompson’s lifeexplained Radio. “But he gave them his eyes.”

Thompson of his Machine in the 1920s.

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In 1931, Hitler’s spokesman held interviews between the two in Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin. In an article he wrote in Tekin Cosmopolitan One year later became a book with a book I saw Hitler!He said the meeting with him was announced.

“He is unnoticeably, evil, invalid, invalid” Tekin wrote. “He is the prototype of the little man.”

Along with ridicule Hitler’s behavior, Thompson sang an alarm in the discriminatory policy of the Nazis party. He stressed his access to the “old race prejudice” and wrote “along with the Jews.” was one of the first planks in his program. “

“You know that this expression is said:” The greatest fear of man is laughing by a woman, “said Corine Walther,” The author of Dorothy Thompson and the American Zionism. “This is a person who is so worried about power and his image. He can say things that are sensitive about him. I think this is expelled from the country. “

Tekin did not predict Hitler to be Chancellor in 1933. According to the spawn, Hitler immediately expelled Tompson from Nazi Germany in the summer of 1934.

Tekin, Germany’s American Bund rally for heckling, received a applause in New York in New York on March 3, 1939. The meeting was held in response to Nazi Bund Rally.

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“Dorothy was at the hotel in Berlin and gestapo knocked on the door and left their documents 24 hours a day to leave the country for 24 hours,” said Kurbish.

Tekin returned to the United States in September 1934, a New York Times The article. The Second World War, along with the start of the World War, merged with the recognition of Thompson, as his own right, as Sinclair Lewis’s wife. Started a column with New York Herald Tribune In 1936, it is called “record”. From 1939 to 1939, WWII was released in NBC before the start of WWII. Publishes every night during the start of the war before going on to Sunday night.

“It was a very dark subject because he was very dark, because it was a very dark matter,” said granddaughter Lesley Dorothy Lewis said. At 63 years old, Thompson’s only living grandchildren. “No one had never heard that it didn’t before. Edward R. Murrow or such a person like someone had to always hear.”

Tekin used the position of air waves to draw attention to the Jewish refugee crisis. He also authored the book Refugees: Anarchy or organization? In 1938, he called the US prison to accept Jewish refugees.

“He really realized what Hitler wanted to do, what he wanted to do against the Jews,” says Walther. “It was one of the things that make it very nice at the moment, because there were many Americans who are good.”

Tekin (right) speaks with an ambulance driver in a bench in London.

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Thompson’s antifask activism was not limited to the media. In 1939, Germany made headlines to protest the rally of the American Bundu – an American Nazisian organization – in the Garden of Madison Square. Tekin was heckled and envy during speeches, and as a result of the police had to be accompanied by police. That year, he was on the cover Time The magazine announced by Tekin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential women in the United States.

To question Zionism

Thompson’s propaganda for Jewish refugees was inseparable from the propaganda of the Jewish people to be a nation in the ancestral homeland. By the end of the war, Ocadi World Zionist Movement and there was Awarded by prominent Zionist agenciesAccording to the Jewish telegraph agency.

“Dorothy was a bold, convincing, faithful Zionist, but he was not (Palestine),” Kurth said.

Walther says Tekin visited Palestine in the summer of 1945, Germany and Germany a few days before surrendering from World War II.

“Dorothy went to Palestine and saw the refugees of the Palestinian population forced their lands,” Kurth. “He saw a people from root.”

Walther reminded that “the type of hate and violence in Germany, the type of violence.

“The construction of a Jewish state in Palestine was” recipe for eternal war “,” Kurth said.

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Tekin returned to the United States and began asking questions about the Zionist movement.

“The situation is not as presented by many Zionists,” he said. Tekin in 1946 Ted Thackey, Editor New York Post.

In 1947 Post immediately threw the column. In the next result, Tompson wrote the target by “radical Zionists”.

“He faces American Zionist organizations, as well as newspaper editors, and accused them of anti-Semitism,” Walther.

Walther also writes that Walthy Thompson and American Zionizmi, Thompson, Thompson’s propaganda of Palestinian refugees, even the voice of Palestinian refugees. Took part in one named Proud sandTo intervene with the Palestinian refugee crisis by calling the United States. He also established American friends from the Middle East to promote dignified relations between the United States and the Middle East. But reduced the prospects of work.

Thompson speaks of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington in April 1939.

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This New York Herald Tribune In 1940, he threw the column and could not get a radio contract since 1945.

“He really struggled to find his place after that,” Kurth said. Towards the end of his life, Thompson turned in and started working on the souvenir. However, in 1961 he died of a heart attack before he could finish him. He was 67 years old.

“There is a great quote made at the end of his life,” said Walther. “He said: I had to talk about it,” It means attacks on Palestinian citizens – ‘I had to talk about Hitler for the same reason. But my Zionist friends do not understand the universality of simple spiritual principles. ” “

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