Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (1898–1949) was an American

United States

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 writer and journalist. He was nicknamed "Red" Knickerbocker from the color of his hair.

He was noted for reporting on German politics prior and during World War II

World War II

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. From 1923 to 1933 he reported from Berlin

Berlin

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, but because of his opposition to Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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 he was deported when Hitler came to power. In 1931 he won the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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for "a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia".