Every Single Time Judith Simons got her start as a journalist covering the Nazi war trials in Nuremberg The Column with the Rhythm of Youth, she got her start in journalism as a 21-year old cub reporter at the Ravensbrück Nazi war crime trials in Hamburg from 1946 to 1948. The Foreign Office was recruiting people to work in Germany for the Allied Control Commission, set up to restore democracy to the country after the war. As Simons had always wanted to be a reporter and studied German at school she duly applied. "The Control Commission said they had a nice job for me in the department for food and agriculture. "But I said I wanted to do news so I was assigned to the newspaper Die Welt, which the British had set up in 1946," she revealed to the Daily Express on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2015. *paraphrased: At 21 she moved to Germany and on her return in 1949 she worked as a trainee in the Rotherham Express branch of the South Yorkshire Times. While working at the Daily Express she met the Bealtes, and became like a big sister.