Someday you will understand: my father's private World War II

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Author's Note; Preface: The Maginot Line of Memory; Prologue; Part One: Hidden in Plain Sight; Chapter 1 Walking My Father's Labyrinth; Chapter 2 Bombs, Bullets, and Lies; Chapter 3 Vichy, Lyon, and the Flag of Rags; Chapter 4 No Exit: Marseille, Fascist Spain, and the Nightmare Ocean Crossing; Chapter 5 Unraveling the Chaos: A Kid at the Dwight School; Part Two: The Long Road to Ritchie; Chapter 6 Drafted; Chapter 7 The Ritchie Boy Takes On the Pentagon; Part Three: Return from Exile;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. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Author's Note Preface: The Maginot Line of Memory Prologue Part One: Hidden in Plain Sight Chapter 1 Walking My Father's Labyrinth Chapter 2 Bombs, Bullets, and Lies Chapter 3 Vichy, Lyon, and the Flag of Rags Chapter 4 No Exit: Marseille, Fascist Spain, and the Nightmare Ocean Crossing Chapter 5 Unraveling the Chaos: A Kid at the Dwight School Part Two: The Long Road to Ritchie Chapter 6 Drafted Chapter 7 The Ritchie Boy Takes On the Pentagon Part Three: Return from Exile Chapter 8 Coup de Grâce: Vetting War Criminals from Mussolini's MassesChapter 9 It Is Your Moral Duty: DPs Among the Ruins in Austria and Germany Chapter 10 "I Found Your Gold Bally Shoes" Chapter 11 The Key to the Wine Cellar Chapter 12 Details Are Confusing, and Freedom Is Just Another Word Appendix To the Editors of The New Yorker: A Letter from Austria Acknowledgments Notes