PASADENA, Calif., July 29, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- History forgets so many who have helped shape it. Nameless faces, protests and words of reason burned in the fire of hate. Few Americans know the name Walther Victor or his role in Germany during the Nazi occupation. A new biography Rebel With a Cause (now available through 1stBooks) by his son, Paul Victor, offers a new name in the history of rebels fighting the Nazis.
Paul Victor details his father's life intending to make up for the years that fate kept him hidden. A journalist and editor of three major German newspapers, Walther Victor was a vocal activist against the Nazis. He wrote 27 books, most of them biographical. By 1939, when Adolf Hitler had geared up his book burning campaign, all of Victor's words had turned to ashes in the bonfires. As a social democrat, anti-Nazi and a Jew, Walther Victor had to flee Germany and barely escaped the Holocaust. He repeatedly had to flee for his life, going from country to country across Europe as each was crushed under the boots of the Nazi army. By an act of fortune, he escaped to the United States. It would be years before he could return to his homeland of Germany.
For the first time, one man's defiance and rebellion is heard. A harrowing and sad tale, Rebel With a Cause will find its way into history's memory.
Paul Victor was born in Germany. He was an inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Liberated by Patton's 3rd Army in 1945, he immigrated to the United States in 1946. Working in business for 56 years, he retired in 1978 as vice-president of a major international manufacturer. He has also held the vice-chairmanship of MENSA. Rebel With a Cause, a biography of his father, is his first book. His second book, Lilo: A Murder in New York will be published in 2003.
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