Article in The Guardian by John Banville, 8/7/25
Headline: “Interviewing Hitler by Richard Evans review – the most unethical journalist in history”
Subhead: “George Ward Price, the Mail’s star reporter, landed a series of scoops in the 1930s. But who was he really working for?”
“. . .His greatest triumphs came in the 1930s, when he courted the Nazis zealously, in particular Hitler, who in Linz, on the evening after the German annexation of Austria, ‘greeted him with a smile. ‘Well, Ward Price,’ he said. ‘Always there!’
“Ward Price’s reporting came in for serious criticism, including from Winston Churchill, who declared on meeting him: ‘I see that you’ve been over in Germany again, shaking the bloodstained hands of your Nazi friends.’ . . .”
“Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World’s Most Famous Journalist by Richard Evans is published by The History Press