Regreso a Berlín, 1945-1947

Willliam Shirer served as the Berlin correspondent for CBS from 1934 to 1941. His passionate chronicles, a pioneer in the genre, soon drew the attention of Nazi censors, who scrutinized his work closely. The advance of the war led to the growth of propaganda and greatly hampered the work of correspondents like Shirer, who decided to write a journal in parallel where he left testimony of everything that he could not say in his famous speeches. His Berlin Diary was abruptly discontinued in 1941 because of his expulsion from the country and his return to the United States. Shirer had to leave Germany in the middle of the war, when half of Europe was in flames and most of its Jewish population in the death camps. Return to Berlin is the long-awaited follow-up to his Berlin diary and personal reckoning with the thousand-year Reich that saw the end of him much sooner than anticipated. Started in the United States in 1944, it informs us of the creation of a new body: the United Nations Organization, and anticipates the importance it would have in managing the geopolitical framework that will emerge after the war. In 1945 he finally returns to Europe, to the recently liberated Paris, and returns to Berlin, a city devastated by the last months of the conflict. From there he travels to Nuremberg to cover the trials against the Nazi leaders and once again offers his brilliant historical interpretation of the events he is experiencing, while revealing a certain pessimistic attitude towards the world that has emerged from the ashes of war.