schultz. and when sigrid ordered the schultz it was in orange juice-based.nyone else ordered it they got a heavy dose of whatever their alcohol the bartender had open at the time. so she graded dissolution that she was just another hard drinking newspaperman, and that was her preferred term, newspaperman. but this idea that she looked like she could match the voice drink for drink. >> you've reported your book about the in-house publication of the "chicago tribune," a little trip, writing about sigrid schultz in octoberf 1940. the language is 100 years old. our only lady correspondent nages the tribune important bureau in berlin. it is a bit startling to reconcile someone soo small, far and jolly as sigrid schul with the distinguished cable reports political, economic andd social news of gerny. but a strong personality and a keen mind are behind her gay blue a eyes. >> yes. she was small. she was pretty. she was female. she often had to deal with men who didn't take a quite seriously. she also was prepared to use those attributes when necessary. one of her f

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

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: one of those people was sigrid schultz. who was she?ltz was the first woman to be a bureau chief for a major american newspaper. 1925 through 1941, so she was there during the rise of the nazi. she started the tribune in 1919 as a translator, girl friday, number two correspondent when the tribune first opens the bureau in berlin after world war i and she was one of the first american reporters to tell the readers how dangerous the nazis were. she would end up being one of the last american reporters to leave berlin while it was still possible to get out. she was enormously important in her reporting consistently throughout the duration of the rise of the nazis. she was there for the whole story. that made her very unusual. peter: how did she get the job? pamela: she stumbled into it. she is an american, despite the name sigrid schultz and being in berlin, she was born in chicago but basically grew up in europe. she was educated for a short time in germany but for the most part in paris. in world war i, she and her parents ended up stran

other american correspondent in berlin knew so much what was going on behind the scenes, as did sigrid schultz. sigrid had much less grand vision of her career. she said, i know i'm 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 ravenswood for a moment. sigrid was born inhigo, 1893, and she would identify herself ahicagoan for the rest of her life. but she really grew up in europe. her parents immigrated to chicago. they had every intention of making this their permanent home. but the market for portrait dried up in the economic depression of the 1890s. so when hermann got a really important portrait 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 the united states again. she attended schools in both germany and france. she often spent summers visiting her father's family in norway in 1911. she graduated with hon

because then the schultz family were enemy aliens. and that meant sigrid was not supposed to leave neighborhood that they lived in. she had to go twice a day to, the police station, to have her i.d. card stamped. she got around it a little bit by bribing the police with some of her father's stash of pre-war war cigars. but she managed to put together income. she cobbled together a bunch of different jobs using language skills. and her father's connections in berlin. society. one of the standard ones that she taught the children of wealthy german families, french and english. and at that point, she expected that when the war was over, she would continue cobbling together a bunch of little jobs to, keep the family fat. she would have understood idea of the gig economy really really well. and then in the early days of the weimar republic, she stumbled into what was going to be her lifetime career. world war one changed aged the way american reported on foreign news. before the war, american newspapers for the most part considered on the ground foreign porting