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Return To The Reich - A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis (Paperback)
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Return To The Reich - A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis (Paperback)
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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 gold mine 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 region's Nazi
commander 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.
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