Heroes or Villains?

The True Story of Saving Jews in Occupied France Where There Were Heroes and Villains and Sometimes, You Could Not Tell the Difference

by Carl L. Steinhouse


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 10/19/2016

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 344
ISBN : 9781524643713
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 344
ISBN : 9781524643737
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 344
ISBN : 9781524643720

About the Book

Heroes or Villains? is the true story of the Holocaust in France that started when France surrendered to the Germans and Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain arrived to form, under the German watch, a petty French dictatorship—the Vichy government—with these Vichy villains intent on assisting the short-handed Germans (who lacked the manpower to round up the Jews because Hitler’s troops had been thrown into the war on the Soviet front) by using French police to round up the Jews in France and turn them over to the Nazi murderers. In this exciting true story of how heroes from other countries faced up to the Germans and Vichy, risking their lives to help hide or spirit Jews out of France, heroes like the American volunteers and American consul in Lyon and heroes like French pastors, bishops, monks, nuns, the French Résistance and Jewish underground. These, then, are some of their stories.


About the Author

Carl Steinhouse, a retired lawyer, was a federal prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice for 15 years after which he went into private practice specializing in class actions, white-collar crime, and civil and criminal trials. In the early fifties, he served as an intelligence analyst in the Army Counterintelligence Corps. Mr. Steinhouse was Vice Chairman of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association, and on the editorial boards of two Bureau of National Affairs publications. He also wrote and edited books on grand jury practice, criminal trial practice, and criminal juries and was a frequent lecturer at ABA National Institutes and video courses on grand jury and criminal trial practice. He was a frequent contributor to the Naples Daily News, writing about the humorous side of the law. In the 80’s and 90’s he was active on an international level for the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, making several trips to Jerusalem and Helsinki on fact-finding missions and to the Soviet Union to aid Refusniks (those Jews the Soviets refused to let emigrate). He served on the board of the Cleveland Anti-Defamation League and ADL’s National Legal Affairs and National Fact Finding Committees, and monitored activities of hate groups for the ADL. Mr. Steinhouse, personally affected by the Holocaust, had lost family in German-occupied territory during World War II. He has published seven books in his Holocaust series, some to rave reviews He also authored an irreverent and humorous memoir, Now What? as well as two legal thrillers (on Kindle and Nook only), Harassment and Extreme Malice. The author is happily married and lives in Naples, Florida, where he does his writing.