Prisoner Of The Gestapo

Author : Krystyna Wituska
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332948
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside a Gestapo Prison written by Krystyna Wituska and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.

Author : Robert J. Richey
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1456766880
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Brother Glenn a Prisoner of the Gestapo During World War Ii written by Robert J. Richey and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My brother Glenn served in the US Eighth Air Force during the Air War over Germany in 1944. His plane was shot down on his 22nd mission just inside the French Coast two days before the Landing on D-Day. He was rescued by French farmers but later was betrayed by another frenchman in Paris to the Gestapo. He was incarcerated in Buchenwald, one of the Death Camps. He survived the War and lived his life out in the Town in East Texas he grew up in. This is his Story in his words.

Author : Tom Firth
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844684822
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of the Gestapo written by Tom Firth and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in Warsaw, Poland. However they became split up when Poland became overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older brother were in England, Tom found himself trapped in the Russian-occupied part of the country and, after several agonizing months, eventually made his way to Warsaw where his mother had managed to survive the bombing of the city. He vividly describes life under both regimes, as well as the cat-and-mouse game his mother was forced to play with the Gestapo in order to avoid arrest. Later, both became deeply involved with the sheltering of escaped British prisoners of war and it was this activity which led to his capture and imprisonment in a jail in Krakow. Miraculously released after eighteen months captivity, largely due to his command of the Polish language, he vowed to escape to Britain at all cost.Later in the war and after many harrowing experiences he succeeded in getting through to the Red Army, but was again faced with hostility, suspicion and imprisonment. Held for several months in primitive conditions, he, along with two British companions was finally taken to Moscow and handed over to the British Military Mission there. Arriving in Scotland with a convoy of supply ships late in December 1944, he had the galling experience of spending a night in Brixton Prison. With nowhere to go he then began a frantic search for his father and brother, who were convinced that he was dead. His dream came true, but even after the ending of hostilities and later in time, tragedy struck with the news of his mothers arrest by the Polish Communist authorities. Sentenced to death for alleged espionage, she spent several years in prison, being freed in a Government amnesty and arriving in England in 1956.

Author : Carsten Dams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019966921X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gestapo written by Carsten Dams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the latest research to present a history of the Gestapo, from its creation during the Weimar Republic to the fate of its officers after World War II, and unravel the truths and mysteries behind its rule.

Author : Dr. Alfred Wallner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462043771
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Months in a Gestapo Prison written by Dr. Alfred Wallner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many heroes, the narrator of this remarkable story, his own, was a reluctant and even unwilling one. It happened when he was confronted with a moral dilemma and something within him made the right choice, to the surprise and even the disapproval of the rest of him that much wanted to protect his young family. He too was young. The time was early 1945, when savage World War II was coming to an end in Europe. Alfred Wallner, a doctor serving in the lower Austrian alps as the Allied armies closed in on Germanys appalling Third Reich that Austria had joined in 1938, detested the Nazis but not enough to risk virtually certain death if hed be caught helping Americans. But he did help a team of them and was quickly caught, after which he was taken to a Gestapo prison where the people he met, from his cellmates to the warders, were not merely a fascinating cast of characters but also a fair sample of the types one encounters in any country under stress. In that way and others, Dr. Wallners story is a cautionary as well as a gripping tale, and it contains a great surprise.

Author : Arnold Krammer
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493049523
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Prisoners of War in America written by Arnold Krammer and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi prisoners of war in 511 camps across the country. With a new introduction and illustrated with more than 70 rare photos, Krammer describes how, with no precedents upon which to form policy, America's handling of these foreign prisoners led to the hasty conversation of CCC camps, high school gyms, local fairgrounds, and race tracks to serve as holding areas. The Seattle Times calls Nazi Prisoners of War in America "the definitive history of one of the least known segments of America's involvement in World War II. Fascinating. A notable addition to the history of that war."

Author : Stanislaw Sattler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of 68 Months-- Buchenwald & Auschwitz written by Stanislaw Sattler and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert J. Richey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781456766870
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Brother Glenn a Prisoner of the Gestapo During World War II written by Robert J. Richey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My brother Glenn served in the US Eighth Air Force during the Air War over Germany in 1944. His plane was shot down on his 22nd mission just inside the French Coast two days before the Landing on D-Day. He was rescued by French farmers but later was betrayed by another frenchman in Paris to the Gestapo. He was incarcerated in Buchenwald, one of the Death Camps. He survived the War and lived his life out in the Town in East Texas he grew up in. This is his Story in his words.

Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374118256
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book KL written by Nikolaus Wachsmann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise in the spring of 1945.

Author : Hugh Wray McCann
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456464417
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Johnny Nicholas written by Hugh Wray McCann and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Nicholas had many faces. To some he was "Major John Nicholas," a downed black American pilot who parachuted into France on a secret intelligence mission. To others he was a key player in the French Resistance and a doctor who'd set up a practice in Paris as a cover for his clandestine activities. At a well built 6 feet, he was a bon vivant who loved the high life, and a film producer with a penchant for boldly thumbing his nose at the Nazis in World War II Paris. To Florence, his blonde girlfriend, he was an enigma who cheated on her; she betrayed him to her German handlers. Nicholas was arrested by the Gestapo and wound up in 1943 in Buchenwald as a slave laborer, later working with thousands of other prisoners to hollow out a secret underground plant under construction at Camp Dora where V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs were built. He was the only black and only "American" at Dora. Who was Johnny Nicholas and how did he survive four death sentences? What was his real mission and ultimate fate? More than 20 years and 600 contacts worldwide have gone into The Search for Johnny Nicholas, the dramatic untold story of an unsung hero. "What an interesting character Nicholas was! As enigmatic as he seemed I kept rooting for him throughout the book. He seemed to fill his roles perfectly and managed to succeed at everything he tried. While he was a loner he seemed to always be doing something to help someone else. I thought that the "eulogy" at the end of the book was very appropriate for him. I imagine that there were many such heroic people in WWII who were never recognized for what they did to help stop the Axis countries and the Nazi killing machine." --Jerry Bricker, Aadvise Consulting, LLC