H. R. Knickerbocker

Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (1898–1949) was an American journalist and foreign correspondent. Born in Texas, he studied in Germany and reported from Berlin and Moscow for American newspapers, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for a series on the Soviet Five-Year Plan. He interviewed many of the leading figures of Europe, warned early of the danger of Nazism and was expelled from Germany after Hitler came to power. He covered the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and its aftermath, and wrote books including Is Tomorrow Hitler's? He died in a plane crash in India.