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Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels; Belgium. On the eve of the German invasion; in May 1940; the family began its second escape. Their sixteen-month odyssey took them through the chaos of battle in France and the dangers of living clandestinely as Jews in occupied territory; before they finally boarded the notorious freighter SS Navemar in Cadiz; Spain; to be among the last Jewish refugees admitted to the United States before Pearl Harbor.Within two years of his arrival in the States; Walter was ready to take the fight back to the Nazis as a soldier in the U.S. Army. Trained for the Intelligence Corps at Camp Ritchie; he was sent first to Italy and then to Germany and Austria; where he interrogated POWs for potential prosecution as war criminals at Nuremburg. At the same time; on his travels in Europe he returned to the confiscated properties of his extended family; throwing out the occupiers and reclaiming ownership. Telling the rousing story of a Jewish boy who fled persecution and returned to prosecute the Nazi oppressors; Walter Wolff’s daughter Nina has reconstructed these events from family lore and her father’s own cache of more than 700 wartime letters and 200 photographs; which he revealed to her shortly before he died.Skyhorse Publishing; along with our Arcade; Good Books; Sports Publishing; and Yucca imprints; is proud to publish a broad range of biographies; autobiographies; and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin; Nelson Mandela; and Alexander Graham Bell; as well as villains from history; such as Heinrich Himmler; John Wayne Gacy; and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II; memoirs about overcoming adversity; first-hand tales of adventure; and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller; we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.