Pierre J. Huss
Pierre John Huss was a journalist and author, best known as a war correspondent during World War II.
Huss was for many years chief International News Service correspondent in Berlin. He was part of an overseas reporting staff assembled by Edward R. Murrow in March 1938 for what was the first in what became the daily CBS World News Roundup broadcasts.
He interviewed Adolf Hitler multiple times during the 1930s and 1940s, and wrote Heil! And Farewell: The Foe We Face in 1942, the same year he won a National Headliner Award.
Huss was president of the United Nations Correspondents Association in 1962. He and George Carpozi, Jr. cowrote Red Spies in the UN, published in 1965.
Huss died of a heart attack on March 22, 1966, after collapsing in the lobby of the United Nations, where he was then a reporter for the Hearst Headline Service.Example of his reporting
As an INS correspondent based at the Allied Forces Headquarters in North Africa, Huss wrote the following in July 1943, after news of Mussolini's fall from power:
