Deborah Friedell: ‘Everyone is terribly kind’

Created
Fri, 06/01/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Fri, 06/01/2023 - 00:00
No American reporter had been expelled from the Reich until Thompson received a hand-delivered letter from the Gestapo that accused her of offending ‘national self-respect’, rendering them unable to extend a ‘further right of hospitality’. The international press corps saw her off at the train station the next morning, her arms full of the roses they had given her.