From Munich to Washington

About the Book

"A German-American lawyer gives a unique description of life under Hitler. Judge Richard Posner said he "enjoyed the book very much and that it sounded very honest."

The author was taught by Nazi teachers in high school, experienced four years in the Wehrmacht, survived the bombing of Dresden and came to America five years after he had escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Italy. After the war during Germany's occupation, while working himself through law school in Munich, he reported on the Nuremberg and Dachau war crimes trials. Emigrating in 1952 with his wife and two children he took any job a newcomer can get while again attending law school in Washington. Thereafter as an American lawyer he represented for forty years the democratic Germany before US courts in litigation dealing with the Holocaust."

About the Author

Peter Heidenberger was born in Munich in 1922. After he had qualified as a German lawyer he emigrated to Washington, D.C. in 1052 where he became an American lawyer, graduating from George Washington University Law School in 1956. He has four children and seven grandchildren, all live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is married to Alice Heidenberger for 59 years. They spend the winter on Man-O-War Cay in the Bahamas.