Pierre J. Huss

Who was 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.