After twenty-one years of marriage, my wife stood at the door with a packed suitcase and said, “Either you tell me who you really are, or I’m gone.” I had spent decades building a life in America…
In September 1985, a 64-year-old man named Dennis F. Whiles walked into a federal office in San Pedro, California, and calmly told the authorities who he really was. For forty years, he had been living under a stolen identity. He was not Dennis Whiles. He was Georg Gaertner, the last German prisoner of war still … Read more