Guenter Lewy

Guenter Lewy is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the author of seventeen books, most recently Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers . Born in 1923 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), he lived for six years under Nazi rule and was on the receiving end of storm trooper violence during Kristallnacht. He emigrated to Palestine in early 1939. With Erwin Rommel at the gates of Alexandria, Lewy volunteered for the British Army...See more

Guenter Lewy is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the author of seventeen books, most recently Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers . Born in 1923 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), he lived for six years under Nazi rule and was on the receiving end of storm trooper violence during Kristallnacht. He emigrated to Palestine in early 1939. With Erwin Rommel at the gates of Alexandria, Lewy volunteered for the British Army and served in the Jewish Brigade, which fought in Italy as part of Montgomery's Eighth Army. For about a year after the war he was an interpreter for the British military police in occupied Germany. In 1946 he came to the United States. See less