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Meet the Author at South Coastal Library: Nazis on the Potomac (Book discussion and Lecture)

Meet the Author at South Coastal Library: Nazis on the Potomac (Book discussion and Lecture)

Join South Coastal Library for a free lecture and book discussion with historian Robert K. Sutton. Mr. Sutton was previously chief historian of the National Park Service, and is also an author of two nonfiction books, "Nazis on the Potomac" and "Stark Mad Abolitionists" respectively. 

Patrons may pre-purchase the books (available online) and have them personally signed following the conclusion of the lecture. 

No registration required. Ages 18+ please. 


"Now a green open space enjoyed by residents, Fort Hunt, Virginia, about 15 miles south of Washington, DC. was the site of one of the highest-level, clandestine operations during World War II. Shortly after the United States entered World War II, the US military realized that it had to work on exploiting any advantages it might gain on the Axis Powers. One part of these endeavors was to establish a secret facility not too close, but also not too far from the Pentagon which would interrogate and eavesdrop on the highest-level Nazi prisoners and also translate and analyze captured German war documents.

That complex was established at Fort Hunt, known by the code name: PO Box 1142. The American servicemen who interrogated German prisoners or translated captured German documents were young, bright, hardworking, and absolutely dedicated to their work. Many of them were Jews, who had escaped Nazi Germany as children—some had come to America with their parents, others had escaped alone, but their experiences and those they had been forced to leave behind meant they all had personal motivation to do whatever they could to defeat Nazi Germany. They were perfect for the difficult and complex job at hand. They never used corporal punishment in interrogations of German soldiers but developed and deployed dozens of tricks to gain information.

The Allies won the war against Hitler for a host of reasons, discussed in hundreds of volumes. This is the first book to describe the intelligence operations at PO Box 1142 and their part in that success. It will never be known how many American lives were spared, or whether the war ended sooner with the programs at Fort Hunt, but they doubtless did make a difference. Moreover these programs gave the young Jewish men stationed there the chance to combat the evil that had befallen them and their families." - provided by publisher.

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