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It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

This is a memoir of Holocaust survivor Fred Rodell, a German-born Jewish man who migrated to the United States in 1936 at the age of 16, was one of “Wild Bill” Donavan’s first OSS recruits and ultimately served as an interrogator at the Nuremberg War Tribunal. Broken into three sections – Growing Up in Nuremberg and New York; Behind Enemy Lines; and Return to Nuremberg for the Trials, it recounts the details of Fred’s early life as a Jewish boy in the cradle of rising Nazi anti-Semitism; his adventures as an resourceful young man making a life for himself in New York; how he came ...