Canadian Shocked to Discover British War Hero Father Was German Jew Whose Story Inspired Book, Movie ‘The Great Escape’ | Algemeiner.com
A Canadian researching his late father’s past was stunned to discover that his dad was actually a German Jew whose battle against the Nazis inspired a famous World War II book and subsequent film, the UK’s Daily Mail reported. Marc Stevens said all he knew prior to his digging was that his father, Peter Stevens, who he said spoke with a “highly cultured” British accent, had been born as Georg Franz Hein in Hanover, Germany to Christian parents. Peter fled Germany for England before…
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