Dorothy Thompson

 

Dorothy Thompson born July 9, 1893 and died January 30, 1961. Dorothy was an American journalist and broadcaster in which she reached a huge audience in the late 1930s. At that time she was seen as "aggressive" however she got her message across because she became a prominent American journalist and radio personality. She was one of the few women news commentators on the radio in the 1930s. She had a thrice-weekly column in The New York Herald Tribune that was published in about 130 papers throughout the country. Her estimated audience reach was ten million people.

 In 1931 she interviewed Adolph Hitler and wrote an article "I saw Hitler, warning of the threat he posed." The interview request took time to get approved but it finally did in 1931 however under strict rules. In which she could only ask him three questions and had to be submitted a full day in advance. Her weekly broadcast talked about the truth of Nazism, she wanted American involvement in the war. Her purpose was to warn Americans about the threat that Nazi Germany posed to the democracy and to Europe's Jews. She actually became the first American journalist to be deported form Nazi Germany in 1934. 

Dorothy was married to a Hungarian Jew and had various jewish acquaintance in middle Europe. Dorothy career as a columnist and broadcaster started after Hitler deported Dorothy from Germany. She had also disagreed with fascism in Europe and campaign against it for the victims. She seems to distinguish between bad and good and fight for the right cause even if it doesn't affect her at all. In 1939 she was on the cover of TIME magazine and was named the second most influential woman in the country after Eleanor Roosevelt. After 1920 she became anti-Zionist and went against the creation of the state of Israel and through that several newspapers dropped her column.