Richard W. Sonnenfeldt (1923–2009)
Autore di Witness to Nuremberg
Sull'Autore
Opere di Richard W. Sonnenfeldt
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Sonnenfeldt, Richard Wolfgang
- Data di nascita
- 1923-07-23
- Data di morte
- 2009-10-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
Germany (birth) - Luogo di nascita
- Berlin, Germany
- Luogo di morte
- Port Washington, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Istruzione
- Johns Hopkins University
- Attività lavorative
- electrical engineer
interpreter
businessman
educational administrator - Organizzazioni
- U.S. Army
Radio Corporation of America
National Broadcasting Company
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute - Breve biografia
- Richard W. Sonnenfeldt was born Heinz Wolfgang Richard Sonnenfelt in Berlin, Germany. In 1938, when he was 15, his parents sent him and his younger brother to boarding school in England to escape Nazi persecution. After England entered World War II in 1940, he was interned as an enemy alien, then deported to Australia. On his release, he emigrated to India and then to the USA, where he was reunited with his brother and parents in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from high school and was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was then assigned to Europe, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the concentration camp at Dachau. At the end of the war, he was working in an Army motor pool in Austria when General William J. Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), recruited Sonnenfeldt to be his personal interpreter because he spoke German and English fluently. In 1946, he returned to the USA and studied electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He went to work for RCA and was part of the team that invented color television. He also served as dean of the Graduate School of Management at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 94
- Popolarità
- #199,202
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 10
- Lingue
- 3
WW II did not permit people to grow up slowly, particularly in the circumstances in which he found himself. Quite obviously he and his family made quite a bit of themselves, given the utter depravity of the Nazis. He imparted much information that was uniquely known to him. Also, finishing the book on July 4 was fitting, given his eloquent paean to the United States and its greatness.
Despite my reservations I thoroughly recommend the book.… (altro)