Acknowledgements.

People Finding a true story as yet untold was a stroke of luck. But it was crucially put in motion by good friend Jeanine Brennan, whose savvy internet searches unspooled the threads of Julio’s story. If I’d had Julio’s correct name, I would have discovered the late Gerhard Bassler much earlier, who, after seeing my trove of documents, thought he’d have to go back and rewrite his book. Instead he encouraged me to write mine. Or tell an audio story. Michael Goldstein and Katja-Maria Mg. Chladek followed Julio’s footsteps across Poland, Austria, and Germany while Nicolas Valle tracked Julio through Spain more closely than J. Edgar Hoover and a fleet of FBI agents. Beate Schreiber tirelessly searched court and historical records and has continued to generously support my telling of Julio’s story. Thanks to Beverly Bennett and Melanie Tucker who discovered the misfiled archive and to the late Chris Brookes who gave me the sage advice that it would never be my story if I didn’t tell it from start to finish first. Thanks to Michelle Frauenberger who was almost as excited as I was that the medallions were in in the FDR Museum. Mira Kautzky assisted early on and recruited her uncle, the economist Jeffrey Sachs, to calculate currency exchanges. Moe Frumkin picked up where he left off and Sharon Grimberg, the yenta for the project, found Hebrew speaker Michelle Mussafi among others. Matt Russell and Jess Garrett believed in Julio’s story from the beginning and Jennifer Goren deftly made it coherent and worth telling. A. Epstein coaxed multiple perspectives. Extensive research thanks to Willhelm Neuefeind. Andrew Whitacre, Kirsty Bennett, Anne Bunn, and Meg Tallon suffered through early drafts. I discovered new family: Pnina Igre, Josef Igre, and Jutta Baruth and relied on old: Susan Lanzano and Peter Herman. Thank you to Mark Head for his wide-ranging insight and humor. The late Bianca Baader translated old German documents. Torin Mathieu and Peter Bullis supported my chase. Bettina Neuefeind was immeasurably insightful and patient as I picked apart a complicated history of families during wartime and the echoes in the generations that come after. Thanks to both Reinhard Derreth and Ross Nichol who shared their insights. Thank you to my MIT Edgerton Center friends and MIT Edgerton Center director, Prof. J. Kim Vandiver, who gave me the space to tell it. Most importantly, thanks to David (who never let me give up), Lily, and Clara who tolerated my disappearance to chase Julio’s story and welcomed me back, a more whole person than before.

Books While making something out loud I found inspiration in the silence of books, dropping down into the past, some of which bear mentioning for their depth and insight. Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman; The Last Hundred Days and Other People’s Countries by Patrick McGuinness; Hitler’s Silent Partners by Isabel Vincent; Berlin Diary by William Shirer; The Last Palace by Norman Eisen; East West Street by Phillipe Sands; The Flight Portfolio; The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer; When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann; The Pendulum by Julie Lindahl; Nazi Billionaires by David De Jong; Belonging by Nora Krug; Belonging by Toko-Pa Turner; The Quiet Americans by Scott Anderson; Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal.