The Resource Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis, Eric Lichtblau
Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis, Eric Lichtblau
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The item Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis, Eric Lichtblau represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
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- Summary
- "The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States--they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938. In America, Freddy tried enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor, only to be rejected as an "enemy alien" because he was German. He was soon recruited to the OSS, the country's first spy outfit before the CIA. Freddy, joined by Dutch Jewish refugee Hans Wynberg and Nazi defector Franz Weber, parachuted into Austria as the leader of Operation Greenup, meant to deter Hitler's last stand. He posed as a Nazi officer and a French POW for months, dispatching reports to the OSS via Hans, holed up with a radio in a nearby attic. The reports contained a goldmine of information, provided key intelligence about the Battle of the Bulge, and allowed the Allies to bomb twenty Nazi trains. On the verge of the Allied victory, Freddy was captured by the Gestapo and tortured and waterboarded for days. Remarkably, he persuaded the Nazi commander for the region to surrender, completing one of the most successful OSS missions of the war. Based on years of research and interviews with Mayer himself, whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of ninety-four, Return to the Reich is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- Prologue
- A German boy
- Enemy alien
- The cloak-and-dagger brigade
- The third man
- The drop
- The glacier
- "Franz Weber sent me"
- The Führer's bunker
- The birth of a Frenchman
- "Take Innsbruck"
- The water treatment
- A white flag
- Epilogue: After the fall
- Isbn
- 9781328528537
- Label
- Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis
- Title
- Return to the Reich
- Title remainder
- a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis
- Statement of responsibility
- Eric Lichtblau
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Employees
- Espionage, American
- Espionage, American -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Europe
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) -- Biography
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) -- Biography
- Germany -- Freiburg im Breisgau
- HISTORY / Holocaust
- HISTORY / Military / World War II
- History
- Jews
- Jews -- Germany -- Biography
- Jews -- Germany | Freiburg im Breisgau -- Biography
- Mayer, Frederick, 1921-2016
- 1900-1999
- Spies
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- Underground movements, War
- United States
- United States, Office of Strategic Services
- United States, Office of Strategic Services -- Biography
- United States, Office of Strategic Services -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Austria
- Secret service
- Austria
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States--they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938. In America, Freddy tried enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor, only to be rejected as an "enemy alien" because he was German. He was soon recruited to the OSS, the country's first spy outfit before the CIA. Freddy, joined by Dutch Jewish refugee Hans Wynberg and Nazi defector Franz Weber, parachuted into Austria as the leader of Operation Greenup, meant to deter Hitler's last stand. He posed as a Nazi officer and a French POW for months, dispatching reports to the OSS via Hans, holed up with a radio in a nearby attic. The reports contained a goldmine of information, provided key intelligence about the Battle of the Bulge, and allowed the Allies to bomb twenty Nazi trains. On the verge of the Allied victory, Freddy was captured by the Gestapo and tortured and waterboarded for days. Remarkably, he persuaded the Nazi commander for the region to surrender, completing one of the most successful OSS missions of the war. Based on years of research and interviews with Mayer himself, whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of ninety-four, Return to the Reich is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lichtblau, Eric
- Dewey number
-
- 940.54/8673092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Mayer, Frederick
- United States
- Spies
- Jews
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Espionage, American
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
- HISTORY / Military / World War II
- HISTORY / Holocaust
- United States
- World War (1939-1945)
- Employees
- Espionage, American
- Jews
- Secret service
- Spies
- Underground movements, War
- Austria
- Europe
- Germany
- United States
- United States
- Spies
- Jews
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis, Eric Lichtblau
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction -- Prologue -- A German boy -- Enemy alien -- The cloak-and-dagger brigade -- The third man -- The drop -- The glacier -- "Franz Weber sent me" -- The Führer's bunker -- The birth of a Frenchman -- "Take Innsbruck" -- The water treatment -- A white flag -- Epilogue: After the fall
- Control code
- on1080245757
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9781328528537
- Lccn
- 2019009834
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1080245757
- Label
- Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis, Eric Lichtblau
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction -- Prologue -- A German boy -- Enemy alien -- The cloak-and-dagger brigade -- The third man -- The drop -- The glacier -- "Franz Weber sent me" -- The Führer's bunker -- The birth of a Frenchman -- "Take Innsbruck" -- The water treatment -- A white flag -- Epilogue: After the fall
- Control code
- on1080245757
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9781328528537
- Lccn
- 2019009834
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1080245757
Subject
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Employees
- Espionage, American
- Espionage, American -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Europe
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) -- Biography
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) -- Biography
- Germany -- Freiburg im Breisgau
- HISTORY / Holocaust
- HISTORY / Military / World War II
- History
- Jews
- Jews -- Germany -- Biography
- Jews -- Germany | Freiburg im Breisgau -- Biography
- Mayer, Frederick, 1921-2016
- 1900-1999
- Spies
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- Underground movements, War
- United States
- United States, Office of Strategic Services
- United States, Office of Strategic Services -- Biography
- United States, Office of Strategic Services -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Austria
- Secret service
- Austria
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