I’ve been reading a book called “Blitzed” by Norman Ohler, about the development and use of meth in the third reich (do recommend, it is a scathing drag of the entire Nazi machine and Hitler in particular) and on like, the second-to-last page the author randomly drops a mention of how Hitler’s personal physician was tracked down in the immediate aftermath of the surrender by a war correspondent for the New York Times named Tania Long. (That’s her on the right, pictured with her colleagues covering the European Theater in 1943.)
I thought, that’s a bit odd, a woman reporter in Germany literally as Berlin was falling, so I googled her and she’s fucking amazing. Her life is an epic. I don’t think there have been any books about her, but she definitely deserves one, and if anyone knows of one fire it off my way. Meanwhile you can read about her at her Wiki or at the NYT obituary for her when she passed in 1998.
(Also worth reading is the article on the correspondent second from right, Helen Kirkpatrick, who when told the newspaper didn’t hire women said “I can’t change my sex, but you can change your policy.”)
