Dear Mr. Cherny,
I just finished the book and you did a great job. Well written and very engrossing. I do have two questions though (perhaps I missed the answers). What rank did Lt Halverson retire from the USAF at? And the Stumm Police that were arrested at the City Hall, were they later released or were they "disappeared" permanently into the Gulags?
--Steve
Steve,
Thanks for the question and kind praise. Both good questions: Halvorsen retired as a Colonel (he actually went back to Berlin as the commander of Tempelhof airbase in the 1970s in a nice turn of events). Three of the Stumm police that had been hiding in the French office and then arrested were sentenced to long prison terms. The rest were released within weeks.
--Andrei