Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (1898 – 1949). American journalist and author.
In 1931, as a correspondent for the New York Evening Post and the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won the Pulitzer Prize for "a series of
articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia".
Knickerbocker was a journalist, noted for reporting on German politics before and during World War II. On December 1, 1930, Knickerbocker interviewed Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's mother, Keke Geladze, in Tbilisi for the New York Evening Post through a Georgian interpreter.
In 1932 he traveled across Europe for the book Does Europe Recover. He interviewed many state leaders, amongst them Benito Mussolini, and the second-most important person of Germany's NSDAP Party, Gregor Strasser. His report on Italian fascism is full of praise for the regime's "stability". He also praises Strasser's "left wing" of NSDAP party and the Papen government's semi-dictatorship. There is no hint of a warning about Nazism in the book but rather a recommendation for its success in Italy.
Back in America, after Hitler's reign of terror became the face of NSDAP, he began writing about the threat of Nazism. In 1936 he covered the Spanish Civil War for the Hearst Press group. Like other foreign reporters, his work was progressively hampered by the rebel authorities, who finally arrested Knickerbocker in April 1937 and deported him shortly after.
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 (modern day Mumbai), on July 12, 1949.
-"He was nicknamed "Red" from the color of his hair." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Renfro_Knickerbocker
- "Knickerbocker had a shock of red hair that made him easy to recognize even at a distance." https://books.google.it/books…
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