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Viertel was widowed by Kerr on 16 October 2007, just 19 days before he died from lymphoma while living in Marbella, Spain; he was 12 days shy of his 87th birthday. Through Kerr he had two stepdaughters, Melanie and Francesca Bartley. A filmed documentary by director Michael Scheingraber was in production at the time of Viertel's death.
- Jupp Kappius: First Oss Agent in Germany
- Using German POWs as Spies
- The Oss Recruits
- “Tourist Missions”
- Ada, Emily, and Maria
- Sorting Through Nazi War Criminals
- Viertel’s Postwar Hollywood Career
OSS planners estimated that no American could survive in the ruthless fascist police state. British intelligence supported the assessment that no Allied agent could avoid capture by the Gestapo inside Germany. The only Allied agent that had any chance of operating in the Reich was a nativeborn German. During the night of September 2, 1944, German-b...
Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, commander of the Seventh Army, was desperate for actionable tactical intelligence in order to continue the advance into Germany. He requested help from the command’s OSS Detachment Secret Intelligence chief, Henry Hyde. The crusty OSS civilian had exhausted the French espionage contacts who had contributed to the...
In the 1949 novel Call It Treason, written by OSS operative George Howe, the philosophical issues were explored through the character of a young German corporal, the son of a Berlin doctor who volunteered to reenter his homeland as an OSS agent. Howe posed the question, “Why does a spy risk his life? For what compulsion, and for what torment in his...
The insertions were made in isolated areas away from towns to avoid observation and allow agents time to bury their parachutes. The establishment of a credible cover story was the most important detail in preparing for the clandestine operation. A credible false identity and believable explanation for traveling were the differences between life and...
Three women were recruited by Viertel from the Strasbourg stockade. They were code-named Ada, Emily, and Maria. The most successful and the most frustrating for the Marine case officer was Maria. She had been charged with being a Nazi collaborator and had been the mistress of a German officer. Maria volunteered for OSS service hoping to obtain vind...
On May 7, 1945, General Alfred Jodl, chief of the German Army operations staff, signed the surrender documents ending the major fighting in the European Theater. The OSS accompanied the U.S. Army Occupation Forces into Germany to begin rebuilding the devastated country of the former enemy. The first step was the de-Nazification of the Reich. This r...
Viertel returned to Hollywood and wrote the screenplay for the 1951 spy movie Decision Before Dawn, which was based on the novel Call It Treason, written by his OSS comrade George Howe. The film was a composite of Viertel’s and Howe’s experiences in the Seventh Army OSS Detachment’s German POW espionage operation. The story was filmed in Germany an...
Nov 4, 2007 · A filmed documentary by director Michael Scheingraber was in production at the time of Viertel's death. Titled Peter Viertel – Between the Lines, the film is based upon over 400 minutes of recorded interviews with him. [13] Saboteur (1942) The Hard Way (1943) The Search (Draft – uncredited) (1948) We Were Strangers (1949) Roughshod (Story ...
Born in Germany, Viertel was raised in Hollywood, where his parents worked as a film director-screenwriter and an actress-screenwriter. From an early age he rubbed elbows with the luminaries of the film world on both sides of the camera. Source for information on Viertel, Peter 1920-2007: Contemporary Authors dictionary.
Oct 31, 2006 · Peter Viertel. 3.76. 42 ratings5 reviews. This book evokes the mythic giants of the glory days of the American film industry. Creative artists and men's men, flamboyant egoists, performers of spontaneous acts of selfishness and these are Peter Viertel's "dangerous friends". Seeking to distance himself from the intellectual climate of his ...
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German-language Promotion video for Between the Lines. The sections with Peter Viertel are in English. He discusses his Hollywood, World War II (Viertel was a marine and also in the OSS), and experiences as a writer. Director/Producer Michael Scheingraber with Peter Viertel in May 2007. Photo courtesy of Michael Scheingraber.
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Nov 6, 2007 · Peter Viertel, the novelist ... After finishing the book, Viertel showed it to Huston and offered to change or delete anything he thought offensive. ... Germany, on Nov. 16, 1920, Viertel was the ...
