On June 14, 1940, the day German forces entered Paris to begin more than four years of occupation, an interview with the man responsible for that travesty appeared on dozens of front pages across the United States. A few days earlier, as German forces raced across France, longtime Hearst Newspapers foreign correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand had been granted a rare audience with Adolf Hitler. He described their encounter in a large chateau that had been requisitioned as the headquarters for a German division commander: "With portraits of Belgian and French beauties of days that will never return looking down at us, we sat in the drawing room."
An interview with Adolf Hitler
An interview with Adolf Hitler
An interview with Adolf Hitler
On June 14, 1940, the day German forces entered Paris to begin more than four years of occupation, an interview with the man responsible for that travesty appeared on dozens of front pages across the United States. A few days earlier, as German forces raced across France, longtime Hearst Newspapers foreign correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand had been granted a rare audience with Adolf Hitler. He described their encounter in a large chateau that had been requisitioned as the headquarters for a German division commander: "With portraits of Belgian and French beauties of days that will never return looking down at us, we sat in the drawing room."