Rothay Reynolds (1872–1940) was an English journalist. Before the

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he worked in

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and was a friend of

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. He dedicated ''My Slav Friends'' to Saki and contributed a memoir to the posthumous collection ''The Toys of Peace''. He worked in

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for the

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between the First and

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s and interviewed

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in 1923, making him one of the first foreign correspondents to interview the future German leader.

Interviewing Hitler

Reynolds was "one of the few journalists who had the foresight to interest themselves in the

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movement at a time when it seemed quite off the map," according to an obituary in

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newspaper. He worked for the Mail in Berlin between 1921 and 1938. He returned to

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before the outbreak of the Second World War and wrote ''When Freedom Shrieked'', which revealed what life was like under the Nazis.

Death

He died in

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, then part of

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, in the summer of 1940. He had been based in

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for the

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for a few months earlier in 1940 but left when

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brought the country into the war on the side of

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. After an arduous wartime journey through the Balkans and Middle-East he died from pneumonia in Jerusalem on 20 August 1940.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, Rothay The Daily Telegraph people Daily Mail journalists 1940 deaths 1872 births