KNICKERBOCKER

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 Adolf Hitler he was deported when Hitler came to power. Back in America, he continued writing about the threat posed by Nazism. On April 15th 1933, he wrote in the New York Evening Post: An indeterminate number of Jews have been killed. Hundreds of Jews have been beaten or tortured. Thousands of Jews have fled. Thousands of Jews have been, or will be, deprived of their livelihood. 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.This photo was taken on 12th February 1935, when HRK visited the editorial office of the newspaper Waba Maa (Free Land) in Tallinn.