Life on both sides of the wall

Description:

Research into details of this narrative and the background of author/speaker Gunther Skaletz reveals no citations, no support in any archival resources. Mr. Skaletz is not in the survivors' database of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. There is no record of Mr. Skaletz in the Shoah Foundation database of Holocaust survivors, Los Angeles, California. The Jewish Claims Conference, New York, has no record of Gunther Skaletz as a Holocaust survivor. There is no record of any Holocaust survivor or victim named Skaletz in the Yad Vashem Archive, Jerusalem. In the book, Skaletz cites he was in Auschwitz, yet the search webpage for inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau produces no Gunther Skaletz. Skaletz has no ID number tattoo on his left arm, neither from Auschwitz nor from any other camp. There is no record of Gunther Skaletz in the Holocaust archive, Bad Arolsen, Germany. The German military archives in Germany (Freiburg and Berlin) have no record of Gunther Skaletz serving in the German army from April 1944 to April 1945. The German Agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Records from the former East German Secret State Police (Stasi), Berlin, has no archival record of any Gunther Skaletz in East Berlin. There is no record of Gunther Skaletz residing anywhere in East Germany (GDR). Contrary to Skaletz's statements on his service to President Johnson, there is no reference to Gunther Skaletz in the archive of the Lyndon Johnson presidential library, Austin, Texas. Gunther's younger sister in Germany refutes his narrative as a complete fabrication; Gunther's daughter in Missouri renounces him as an embarrassment.

subjects: Wisconsin authors,  holocaust

People: Gunther F. Skaletz

Places: Germany

Times: 1945