Young Lothar: An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin

by Larry Orbach and Vivien Orbach-Smith

Book Overview

His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach - under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters - entered Berlin's underworld of 'divers'. He scraped a living by hustling pool, cheating in poker and stealing - fighting, literally, to stay alive. Outwardly he became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784537632
• ISBN13: 9781784537630
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.4"