Pierre John Huss (1 May 1901–22 March 196

was a journalist and author, best known as a war correspondent during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. Huss was for many years chief

International News Service The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.

(INS) correspondent in Berlin. He was part of an overseas reporting staff assembled by

Edward R. Murrow Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe f ...

in March 1938 for what was the first in what became the daily ''CBS World News Roundup'' broadcasts. He interviewed

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

multiple times during the 1930s and 1940s, and wrote ''Heil! And Farewell: The Foe We Face'' in 1942, the same year he won a

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. Huss was president of the United Nations Correspondents Association in 1962. He and George Carpozi, Jr. cowrote ''Red Spies in the UN'', published in 1965. Huss died of a heart attack on March 22, 1966, after collapsing in the lobby of the United Nations, where he was then a reporter for the Hearst Headline Service.New York Times obituary
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Example of his reporting

As an INS correspondent based at the Allied Forces Headquarters in

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

, Huss wrote the following in July 1943, after news of Mussolini's fall from power: :The battle spirit of Allied Forces in Sicily soared today at news of Premier Mussolini's resignation. The immediate consequences of Mussolini's fall, after 20 years of dictatorship, undoubtedly will be a nosedive in the morale of Italian fighting forces. :Everything points to the fact that Mussolini lately saw the handwriting on the wall and that, in desperation, he laid his case before Hitler last Monday uly 19after sensing the growing hostility toward him and

Fascism Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ...

on the part of the

Italian people , flag = , flag_caption = The national flag of Italy , population = , regions = Italy 55,551,000 , region1 = Brazil , pop1 = 25–33 million , ref1 = , region2 ...

and

the crown The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has different ...

. :But Hitler, unlike ''

Il Duce ( , ) is an Italian title, derived from the Latin word 'leader', and a cognate of ''duke''. National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini was identified by Fascists as ('The Leader') of the movement since the birth of the in 1919. In 192 ...

'', probably will ride the storm to the bitter end, wildly spilling oceans of blood in occupied countries and even in the

Reich ''Reich'' (; ) is a German noun whose meaning is analogous to the meaning of the English word "realm"; this is not to be confused with the German adjective "reich" which means "rich". The terms ' (literally the "realm of an emperor") and ' (lit ...

itself, and kill himself rather than follow Mussolini's example and resign.

References

External links

Excerpt from "The Foe We Face" by Pierre J. Huss
(1942), from a

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

website
Story of the R.A.F.'s heaviest attack on the city of Berlin
with quotes from a report filed by Huss American war correspondents 1901 births 1966 deaths {{US-journalist-1900s-stub