Frederick Augustus Voigt, who was the Manchester Guardian’s Berlin correspondent between 1920 and 1932, did not look like an intrepid reporter. Photograph: WikipediaHis 1926 exclusive on a covert collaboration between the Reichswehr and the Soviet Red Army brought the German government to collapse. Police in Berlin prepare for Nazi protests at the premiere of the film version of All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Western Nichts Neues), 1930. The rise of the Nazis, he warned his editor WP Crozier in March 1933, was “the biggest historical event since the Great War”. During his time on the western front, Voigt had learned that fear was a physical reaction as natural as feeling cold in winter.

Source: The Guardian July 12, 2021 06:56 UTC