Source Criticism
Source Criticism: “American Infantrymen Win World War I” In 1918 at the end of World War I (WWI) the American journalist, George Seldes, with three other American journalists, interviewed the German General and Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg. The interview may have been the most important interview of WWI but ironically, none of the major newspapers ran the story. This was an incredibly important interview because Hindenburg had been the Army Chief of Staff starting on August 29, 1916. After Hindenburg was appointed to that position he appointed Erich Ludendorff to be his Quartermaster General. Hindenburg and Ludendorff ...