Curt Martin Riess
Curt Martin Riess (June 21, 1902 – May 13, 1993) was a German journalist and writer.
Reiss was born of Jewish-German origins in Wurzburg, Germany, and later fled in 1933 to Paris, France not long after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933.[1] Riess received his higher education in Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, Zurich and Paris, with an emphasis on literature and economics.[2]
Career
[edit]In the 1920s, he first dabbled in sports journalism, and then began to crisscross Europe to report for the Berlin press, including a role as a film and theatre critic.
A French newspaper, Paris-Soir, sent him in 1934 to the United States as a foreign correspondent.[3] Drafted by the U.S. Navy until his transfer into the U.S. Army, Reiss was assigned as a war correspondent in Europe.
After the war he worked as a freelance writer in New York, later returned to Germany, and finally relocated to Switzerland in 1952. Bilingual and a prolific writer, he produced over 100 books in English and German, along with newspaper and magazine articles, biographies, novels and screenplays.[3]
Riess attracted attention in the United States in the 1930s and during World War II with his books and widely syndicated reporting about Hitler's Germany. Along with his duty as a war correspondent, some have claimed that Riess also engaged in the surveillance of Nazi activities, serving as a spy for the United States military. He returned to Germany after the defeat of Hitler in 1945.
Death
[edit]Reiss died in Scheuren bei Forch, Switzerland on May 19, 1993 at the age of 90.[4] The cause of death was undisclosed.
Publications
[edit]- Total Espionage (P.G. Putnam's Sons, 1941)
- Underground Europe (Dial Press, 1942)
- The Self-Betrayed—The Glory and Doom of the German Generals (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942)
- The Invasion of Germany (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1943)
- The Nazis Go Underground (Doubleday, 1944)
- Joseph Goebbels, (Doubleday & Company, 1948)
- The Berlin Story (Dial Press, 1952)
- Joseph Goebbels Abridged, Ballantine Books, New York, November 1960
- Underground Europe (Dial Press, 1972)
References
[edit]- ^ "Curt Riess". geni_family_tree.
- ^ Wolfgang Saxon, “Curt Riess, Author And Journalist, 90; Expert on Nazi Era,” New York Times, May 21, 1993
- ^ a b “Curt Riess, Hitler Fugitive and U.S., German, Swiss Author, Dead at 90,” Associated Press, May 19, 1993
- ^ “Obituary: Curt Martin Riess,” Independent, May 21, 1993
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