He reported for the Times from Southeast Asia (based in Bangkok), Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Hans Kamm was born in the German town of Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland), on June 3, 1925 to a Jewish family.
[5] Kamm won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1978 for his coverage of the plight of refugees from Indochina.
[6] His early experience of disenfranchisement and forced emigration greatly impacted his 47-year career at the Times, his son Thomas Kamm, a former Wall Street Journal correspondent, said in 2017: it "explains the interest he always showed throughout his journalistic career for refugees, dissidents, those without a voice and the downtrodden.
[1] He reported from Eastern Europe on the resistance against the communist regimes and made friends with Václav Havel, Jiří Dienstbier, and Stefan Heym.