sigrid had a much less grand vision of her career. she said, i know one, just a reporter, and i love being a reporter. i hope that by the time i'm done, you'll agree with me that she was more than just a reporter. but first, let's go back to for a moment. sigrid was born in chicago in 93 and she would identify as a chicagoan for th rest ofer life. but she really up in europe. her parents immigrated to. they had every intention of making this their permanent home. but the market for portrait has dried up in the economic depression of the 1890s. so hermann got a really important commission back in. he picked up the family and headed back to europe. sigrid was eight and she really wasn't happy to go. and she would have been even more unhappy if she'd known it would be 40 years before she would live in the united states again. she attended schools in both germany and, france. she spent summers visiting father's family in norway. in 1911, she graduated with honors from a renowned parisian girls school. and then she took classes at the sorb

pamela: john dickson was sigrid schultz.n the 1930's as things got dangerous is she realized she might need a pseudonym. it happened in a very particular context. she received an instruction from the chicago tribune through the paris office. they'd asked her to write an extended article about what was known as the night of the long knives. it happened two years earlier, in 1936 she got the request. but in 1934, in the summer, hitler had massacred the leadership of the storm troopers and anyone else he saw as a potential political rival. and sigrid wrote about it at the time. 11 articles over the course of several weeks. but now they wanted a more extensive, in depth report on that event. but it -- the request came through paris. and the paris office wasn't living under the threat of the nazis. and they really didn't have an internal sense of just how dangerous things were. so a woman from the paris office called sigrid, and the woman with the information, totally clueless about the fact that the phones were tapped and were p

sigrid sigrid most important and powerful for reporting was her work on the death and then later on the war crimes tribunals in dachau and in bergen-belsen. she was one of the first correspondents to reach the. and while in concentration camp, she a few others got there only hours after the american troops liberated the camp. i don't have to tell you that that experience was harrowing. i know. i need to share details about the camps with you. you all seem and heard and read about but secret experience buchenwald in a very different way from her fellow correspondent that day. and it was because of her ability to speak to the former prisoners in their own languages. when she first arrived in europe earlier, that she was in france and her friends had given her a list of young french scholar that the germans had sought and arrested. and as she traveled into europe with the american, she kept looking for them. so in buchenwald, she searched for them at the camp, talking prisoners in french while she was doing that, one of the prisoners her if she would go to a barracks that was set apart fro

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pamela: john dickson was sigrid schultz.n the 1930's as things got dangerous is she realized she might need a pseudonym. it happened in a very particular context. she received an instruction from the chicago tribune through the paris office. they'd asked her to write an extended article about what was known as the night of the long knives. it happened two years earlier, in 1936 she got the request. but in 1934, in the summer, hitler had massacred the leadership of the storm troopers and anyone else he saw as a potential political rival. and sigrid wrote about it at the time. 11 articles over the course of several weeks. but now they wanted a more extensive, in depth report on that event. but it -- the request came through paris. and the paris office wasn't living under the threat of the nazis. and they really didn't have an internal sense of just how dangerous things were. so a woman from the paris office called sigrid, and the woman with the information, totally clueless about the fact that the phones were tapped and were p

peter: did sigrid meet hitler? pamela: she did.met him was right after the 1930 the first time she met him was right after the 1930 election. if not a member of parliament he couldn't run for office but she was meeting at the hotel where hitler was staying. he had a real sweet tooth. and introduced them. when she describes what she saw it goes the wrong way unless he buzzed them the wrong way. he stared into her eyes. she had always found that approach repulsive and she stiffened up and recognized she was not succumbing to the charm that others succumbed to. it started their relationship -- he never tried to kiss her hand again. when she met him in the future she got a good handshake. but despite the mutual disdain, there was a rare one on one interview in 1931. and more power, would be in control within a year. and also made it clear once he and the nazis were in power, they were determined to create the republic described as iron he is truly germanic men, make clear what he is intending to do. >> host: pamela toler, that first me

this movie, based on sigrid nunez�*s book, what are you going through, is released at a time many nationspublicly call for regulated euthanasia to be available worldwide. the room next door, swinton says, is any place where your friends show up to witness your experience. what i was so grateful for when i first read the screenplay was an opportunity to just not look away from the fact that it's not only unlucky people who die, it's not only unlucky people who lose loved ones, and, um... ..and that maybe one of the best resources we can rely on in these moments is real, deep friendship, real, old bonds that will see us through. and, you know, the film is about bearing witness. that reliance on fellowship, i think, is something really important to massage in the culture and remind people that they don't have to face things alone. i'm learning from her, and you should too. i but getting to portray a close and complicated female friendship on screen, such as this one, is still unusual, according to julianne moore. what we don't see is l a relatively fiction—free relationship between two femal