Karl Henry von Wiegand (born 11 September 1874 in Hesse in Germany; died 1961) was a German born American journalist and war correspondent. The New York newspaper The Sun printed that Karl H Von Wikgand was the only American correspondent allowed to stay in Berlin during World War I. Career Von Wiegand worked from 1911 until 1917 for the United Press and from 1917 for Hearst Newspapers. World War I From the outbreak of the First World War Wiegand worked to influence American public opinion in favour of Germany and against the Allies. In 1915 he published Current misconceptions about the war, containing an interview with the German crown prince, and several essays, and a series of letters, all presenting the German point of view. Wiegand was the first United States reporter allowed to interview Crown prince Wilhelm. That interview was also the first foreign interview given by a German noble since the outbreak of World War I. William E. Dodd, US ambassador to Germany during the Roosevelt administration later described him as a "very strongly pro-German representative through the Great War" Karl von Wiegand was the father of journalist (also for Hearst's Newspapers) and abstract painter Charmion von Wiegand. Interwar career He was one of the Hearst Press reporters on at least two of the Graf Zeppelin flights, usually accompanying fellow Hearst reporter Lady Hay Drummond-Hay. Wiegand was one of the first American journalists to interview Hitler, having first met him in 1921 while he was only a minor malcontent in post-World War I Munich. He was one of the first journalists to take Hitler seriously, and his story was published on November 12, 1922, a year before the Beer Hall Putsch. As such, Wiegand provided the first introduction Americans had to Hitler. He referred to him as the "German Mussolini", and expressed genuine concern about his popularity, writing "The shadow of the Fascisti is arising in Germany. Whether what is yet only a shadow will clothe itself in the flesh, blood and spirit of the German Mussolini, depends on a number of things." He also emphasized his "man of the people" qualities, his charisma, and his electrifying speaking ability. He pegged him as a potentially great leader, saying "Hitler has the earmarks of a leader. Whether it be merely a band or a great movement, only the future will tell." World War II and after A month after