Background
Knickerbocker, Hubert Renfro was born on January 31, 1898 in Yoakum, Texas, United States. Son of Hubert Delancey (Review) and Julia Catherine (Opdenweyer) K.
Knickerbocker, Hubert Renfro was born on January 31, 1898 in Yoakum, Texas, United States. Son of Hubert Delancey (Review) and Julia Catherine (Opdenweyer) K.
Bachelor of Arts, Southwestern University, Georgetown. Texas, 1917, Doctor of Letters, 1941. Student Columbia, 1919-1920, University of Munich (Germany), 1923-1924, University of Vienna, University of Berlin, 1924.
He was nicknamed "Red" Knickerbocker from the color of his hair. Knickerbocker was noted for reporting on German politics before and during World World War World War II From 1923 to 1933 he reported from Berlin, but because of his opposition to Hitler he was deported when Hitler came to power. In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union but before American"s entry into World World War II, Knickerbocker foresaw the outcome of the European war: But suppose the Red Army were able to hold the Germans for another year, the while Britain with the United States" help grows strong enough in the air to obtain supremacy over the Luftwaffe on the Western Front.
Suppose during this time, with the aid of shipments from the United States the Red Air Force recovers and also grows strong enough to dominate the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front.
lieutenant is then possible to imagine a time when the Germans, disintegrating from within, would begin to withdraw from the East and the Red Army begin to attack. When once Germany begins to crumble, it is the conviction of all who know that brittle country that she will fall apart at once.
The German Army will have been defeated, disrupted, demoralized. Foreign a time there will be anarchy.
Then all will depend upon which forces reach German territory and the German capital first, the Red Army or the armies of the West.
After World World War II, Knickerbocker went to work for radio station WOR, in Newark, New Jersey. He was on assignment with a team of journalists touring Southeast Asia when they were all killed in a plane crash near Bombay, India, on July 12, 1949. The German Crisis.
Served with Signal Corps, United States Army, World War I. Member of Sigma Delta Chi, Kappa Alpha.
Married Laura Patrick, 1918 (divorced). Married second, Agnes Schjoldager.
