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The Search For Johnny Nicholas: The Secret of Nazi Prisoner No. 44451
The Search For Johnny Nicholas The Secret of Nazi Prisoner No 44451 Author:Hugh Wray McCann, David C. Smith Johnny Nicholas had many faces. To some he was "Major John Nicholas," a downed, black American pilot who parachuted into France on a secret intelligence mission. To others he was a key player in the French Resistance and a doctor who had set up a practice in Paris as a cover for his clandestine activities. At a well-built 6 feet, he wa... more »s a bon vivant who loved the high life, and a film producer with a penchant for boldly thumbing his nose at the Nazis in World War II Paris. To Florence, his blonde girlfriend, he was an enigma who cheated on her; she betrayed him to her German handlers.
In 1943, Nicholas was arrested by the Gestapo and wound up in Buchenwald as a slave laborer, later working with thousands of other prisoners to hollow out a secret underground plant under construction at Camp Dora where V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs were built. He was the only black and only American at Dora. Who was Johnny Nicholas and how did he survive four death sentences? What was his real mission and ultimate fate? More than 20 years and 600 contacts worldwide have gone into The Search for Johnny Nicholas, the dramatic story of an unsung hero.« less