Hello everyone, and thank you once again for listening to the saga of World War II.

This episode is another appendix in which I cover topics that don't necessarily flow through the normal episode structure.

This particular appendix is an interview with author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Eric Liktblow

about his book, Return to the Reich, a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis.

Return to the Reich is a thrilling read that oftentimes feel more like a Tom Clancy novel than

an historical narrative.

It documents the mission undertaken by one Freddie Meyer, a Jewish-German refugee to the United

States who enlisted in the army to fight the Nazis.

One reason I like doing these episodes is because I feel

it allows me to include more information that otherwise wouldn't have gotten into the show. I speak

to it a little bit in the interview, and I know I've mentioned in the past, but one of my biggest

motivating factors is to introduce listeners to aspects of the war that they had never been exposed to

before, and may not never been exposed to before,

and may not have been exposed to otherwise. I'm always astounded that even though I feel I'm fairly well read on the subject, that there are always so many stories I've never heard of

before. This is one of them. The war was so large and so all-encompassing that there were just

so many unique experiences across the globe.

I'd also like to apologize ahead of time for some audio artifacts in the recording.

There are some places where the sound quality dropped off for whatever reason,

but I did my best to clean it up and cut it out.

However, in some places, that would have meant removing important parts of the conversation,

so I had to leave it in and just tried to work around it.

I also hope no one minds that this episode is along, even by appendix standards.

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