Letters From A Nazi Jail

About the Book

This book is a translation of letters, cards, telegrams, etc. from the German. They were received by the author from family, friends, teachers, and classmates while living as US citizens in Nazi Germany during the waning years of WW II. The author’s reminiscences of events called forth by these letters are in italics and cover mundane subjects like the use of “Heil Hitler” and exceptional events like Gestapo interviews. Primarily they are letters from the author’s father while incarcerated by the Nazis to his distant, lonely son.

About the Author

Norm Budde was born on Christmas Day 1930 to an American father and a German/Scottish mother. The family lived in Hamburg Germany where he attended the public schools. In 1946 they moved to Long Island, NY. Following a BS from New York University, and a D.M.D from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, he began graduate training in pediatric dentistry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital. He retired in 1992 as Assistant Clinical Professor at HSDM and Senior Instructor at Children’s Hospital. He has four children, three stepchildren, and six grandchildren. He and his wife Townley live in Hingham, MA.