In the Shadow of the Swastika
Hermann Wygoda · 1998
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He was known first as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, unsavory masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason. In the Shadow of the Swastika tells the story of a Polish Jew whose harrowing wartime adventures reached their amazing end when he received the American Bronze Star from Gen. Mark Clark in June 1946. Wygoda kept a journal during the time he spent in the mountains of northern Italy, where he rose from commanding a platoon to leading a division of nearly twenty-five hundred partisans that ultimately liberated the city of Savona.
First sentence: I awoke suddenly to the combined shrills of the air-defense system and the thundering explosions of antiaircraft guns.
Book details
- Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780252071393
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