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Who did Peter Scholl-Latour work for from 1954 to 1955?
Peter Scholl-Latour Peter Roman Scholl-Latour ( 9 March 1924 – 16 August 2014 ) was a German journalist and author . Biography . Peter Scholl-Latour , who was born in the Province of Westphalia and grew up in Lorraine , was the son of dermatologist Otto Scholl-Latour ( 1888–1960 ) and Mathilde Zerline Nußbaum ( 1896–1991 ; sister of the medical doctor Robert Nußbaum , who was killed in KZ Sachsenhausen ) from the Alsace . Youth and Education . Having a Jewish mother and thus suspicious of the national socialists ( under the Nuremberg Laws he was considered to be a Mischling , a crossbreed of first degree ) , his parents baptized him as a Catholic and sent him to the Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg . When his parents were forbidden to keep transferring money to Switzerland he had to quit the Collège and return to Germany in 1940 . He finished High School at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Kassel in 1943 . In his book Living with France , he gives account of how , after France was liberated from German occupation in 1944 , he chose to sign up with the French army . Since he failed to reach French controlled territory at Metz , he decided to join Titos Partisan army , but was arrested in the region of Steiermark in Austria and subsequently put in a Gestapo prison . After he was freed , Scholl-Latour was a member of the Commando Parachutiste Ponchardier from 1945 to 1946 , a unit of French paratroopers , with whom he fought in the First Indochina War . After taking a masters degree at Institut détudes politiques de Paris and subsequently completing his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne , he gained another masters in Arab and Islamic studies at Lebanese University of Beirut . Work as a Journalist . In 1948 he enrolled as a voluntary trainee with the Saarbrücker Zeitung and traveled to America , Africa , the Middle East and large parts of Southeast and East Asia . In the years 1954 and 1955 he was the speaker of the government of the state of Saarland under its governor Johannes Hoffmann . In 1956 he definitely opted for journalism and traveled to Africa and Southeast Asia . From 1960 to 1963 he was permanent correspondent for Africa with the ARD . From 1963 to 1983 he was head of the Paris bureau of both the ARD and the ZDF . From 1969 to 1971 he was executive director and programming director of the WDR . From Paris he regularly traveled the world , as special correspondent to Vietnam , where he and his camera team were taken prisoner by the Vietcong in 1973 . During that week of imprisonment he was allowed to film a documentary about his experience , which would be called 8 Days with the Viet Cong . Further trips included again Vietnam in 1976 , Canada in 1978 , Cambodia in 1980 as well as Afghanistan and China in 1981 . In 1983 Scholl-Latour became Editor in Chief of the magazine Stern and member of the board of Gruner + Jahr . As of 1984 he was a member of the board of advisors of the UFA Film- und Fernsehen GmbH . From 1988 Scholl-Latour worked as a free author publishing a great number of books , producing reports and appearing as speaker or Expert on various TV and Radio shows . In 1978 Scholl-Latour had contact with Ayatollah Khomeini , who was in exile in Paris at that time . He was one of the few privileged journalists who were allowed to travel with the revolutionary leader on the plane upon Khomeinis return to Iran . In 1985 Scholl-Latour became a member of the German-Arabian Association ; since 2007 its chairman . Despite his old age , he continued writing and traveling the world . In 2008 he visited East-Timor , the only country on the planet he hadnt visited before . In the years after 9/11 he published at least one book annually , all of them bestsellers . According to Scholl-Latour , he was the best selling non-fiction author in Germany for the last 25 years . He was critical of immigration into Europe , saying He who half-absorbs Calcutta does not save Calcutta , but becomes Calcutta himself . Rewards and Honors . - Goldene Kamera ( 1969 ) - Aristide-Briand-Preis ( 1971 ) - Bambi Award ( 1974 ) - Grimme Award ( 1977 ) - Elsie-Kühn-Leitz-Preis ( 1989 ) - Bavarian TV Award ( 1991 ) - Telestar ( 1991 ) - Straßburger Goldmedaille für deutsch-französische Annäherung - Sonderpreis Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat ( 1992 ) - Hildegard-von-Bingen-Preis für Publizistik ( 1999 ) - Honorary professor ( Ruhr University Bochum , 1999 ) - Ehrenpreis des Deutschen Fernsehpreises ( 2001 ) - Hermann-Sinsheimer-Preis ( 2007 ) - Nannen Prize ( 2005 ) - Member of the Legion of Honor since 2005 - Karl-Carstens Prize ( 2006 ) - Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , First Class ( 2006 ) - Steiger Award ( 2007 ) - Honorary Professor ( University of Duisburg-Essen , 2009 ) Publications ( Excerpt ) . Among his most successful books are the best-sellers Der Tod im Reisfeld [ Death in the Rice-fields ] ( 1980 ) , Allah ist mit den Standhaften [ Allah is with the Steadfast ] ( 1983 ) , Mord am grossen Fluss [ Murder at the Great River ] ( 1986 ) , Mit Frankreich leben [ Living with France ] ( 1988 ) , Der Wahn vom Himmlischen Frieden [ The Delusion of Heavenly Peace ] ( 1990 ) , Das Schwert des Islam [ The Sword of Islam ] ( 1990 ) , Den Gottlosen die Hölle [ Hell to the Godless ] ( 1991 ) , Unter Kreuz und Knute [ Under cross and knout ] ( 1992 ) , Eine Welt in Auflösung [ A world in dissolution ] ( 1993 ) , Im Fadenkreuz der Mächte [ In the crosshairs of the Powers ] ( 1994 ) , Schlaglichter der Weltpolitik [ Highlights of International Politics ] ( 1995 ) , Das Schlachtfeld der Zukunft [ The Battlefield of the Future ] ( 1996 ) , Lügen im Heiligen Land [ Lies in the Holy Land ] ( 1998 ) , Allahs Schatten über Atatürk [ Allahs Shadow Over Atatürk ] ( 1999 ) . His 2001 book , Afrikanische Totenklage [ African Dirge ] , was on the Spiegel bestseller list from 2001 to 2004 . His 2002 book Kampf dem Terror - Kampf dem Islam ? Chronik eines unbegrenzten Krieges [ Fight against Terror - fight against the Islam ? Chronicle of a Never Ending War ] , is a sovereign and poignant in-depth account of the bizar lines via which both exotic history and Western politics move , according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . His last book was Russland im Zangengriff [ Russia Surrounded ] ( 2007 ) , Der Weg in den neuen Kalten Krieg [ The road to the new cold war ] , 2008 Documentaries and Interviews ( Excerpt ) . In 2006 he broadcast the TV documentary Russia Surrounded : Putins Empire faces NATO , China and Islam Junge Freiheit , Schleichende Islamisierung Peter Scholl-Latour über die Geiselnahme von Jolo , den Bürgerkrieg auf den Philippinen und die drohende Islamisierung Interview with FOCUS magazine printed in : Der Weg in den neuen kalten Krieg [ The road to the new cold war ] , 2008 Trivia . - Peter Scholl-Latour ranks at No . 147 on the Unsere Besten list of all-time greatest Germans .