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This memoir portrays the dreadful experiences of Camillo Adler and his family as Austrian refugees in France following the outbreak of WWII. Despite his suffering in internment camps, Adler feels bound by honor and duty to fight against the brutal Nazi regime. He enlists into the French Foreign Legion, enduring its rigors of harsh basic training in Algeria and Morocco and eventually returns home after France

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Camillo Adler was born in Austria in 1905, and grew up in Poland and Vienna. He earned a Doctor of Law Degree from the University of Vienna, but unable to find suitable work in the anti-Semitic environment, he immigrated to France in 1930. At the outbreak of WWII, after spending two months in an internment camp for enemy aliens from Austria and Germany, he volunteered for the Foreign Legion and returned to France in 1940. To escape the Holocaust, in 1942, he with his family fled to Switzerland. In 1951, the family immigrated to the United States and lived in New York.

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