Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker nicknamed "Red" was an American Journalist.
Knickerbocker was noted for reporting on German politics before and during World War II. From 1923 to 1933 he reported from Berlin, but because of his opposition to Hitler he was deported when Hitler came to power.
After World War II, Knickerbocker went to work for radio station WOR, in Newark, New Jersey. He was on assignment with a team of journalists touring Southeast Asia when they were all killed in a plane crash near Bombay, India, on July 12, 1949.
Knickerbocker's comments, published in 1941 and written earlier, are prescient. Too bad it took most of the world so long to understand and react, since there were many opportunities to stop Hitler, not just at Munich in 1938 which was, after all, rather late in the game.
My new novel addresses the ways Hitler could have been stopped before 1933 when he was appointed Chancellor. It is infuriating to understand what important people knew and how they didn't act on that knowledge, always for a self-serving agenda which turned out to be less important than the grave dangers they ignored, and the 60 million people whose deaths Hitler caused.
Knickerbocker projected the same outrage about the events of the mid to late 1930s.
Written in 1941, after Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union but before Pearl Harbor, this is a fascinating look at the war, and the possibility of war, from an American perspective. Also relevant to today - refutes convincingly isolationism and Marxism as well as, of course, Nazi fascism. I thought the book was awesome.