Tales of an American Soldier

About the Book

This is the true tale of a German lawyer and former member of Hitler's army who becomes an American lawyer and is drafted into the U.S. Army. Subjected to interrogations and posted to units where the army can keep him away from anything important, this private pulls a lot of KP, gets sent to a unit consisting of enemy aliens, and assigned to a Quartermaster Laundry Battalion. When it is determined that he is not a spy, he is shipped to Europe with an airborne unit. Eventually the army uses his background to its advantage, promoting him to second lieutenant and sending him to the War Crimes Unit in Germany to read secret files. He encounters Hermann Goering, Albert Speer and other Nazis when is assigned to Justice Jackson's staff for the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg.

About the Author

Werner H. Von Rosenstiel was born in Germany in 1911 to a wealthy, landed family. He served in both the Wehrmacht and the U.S. Army. Trained in law in Germany and in the United States, he analyzed secret files of The German Judicial Administration after WWII, translated German witness's affidavits, and interpreted for Herman Goering in preparation for the Nuremberg Trials. Later he was an advertising executive, and at age 60 he returned to his first love, the law, which he practiced in his own firm in Philadelphia and as a partner in a law firm in Germany. A dynamic speaker, he has lectured widely, to university students in Rostock, Bonn, Heidelberg, Philadelphia, and South Florida. He recently addressed judges of the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg, Germany. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife, Anne. Tales of an American Soldier is the fifth book of an eight-volume memoir.