Life on Both Sides of the Wall The book desperately needs proofreading and editing. The author has self-published this morass because no legitimate publisher would even consider standing behind such fictitious self-promotion.
Mr. Skaletz may well have experienced WW II as an adolescent, but the account is NOT legitimate, rather simply a fabricated tale.
Discrepancies:
1) There is no record of Mr. Skaletz in the Shoah Foundation database of Holocaust survivors: https://sfi.usc.edu/vha
2) The Jewish Claims Conference, New York, has no record of Gunther Skaletz as a Holocaust survivor: 1-646-536-9100
3) There is no record of any Holocaust survivor or victim named Skaletz in the Yad Vashem Archive, Jerusalem: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/
4) Skaletz cites he was in Auschwitz, yet he has no ID number tatoo on his arm.
6) The German military archives in Freiburg and Berlin have no record of Gunther Skaletz serving in the German army from April 1944 to April 1945: https://www.bundesarchiv.de
7) The German Agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Records from the former East German Secret Police, has no record of any Gunther Skaletz ever having lived in East Berlin nor in East Germany (GDR). https://www.bstu.de/en/
8) Contrary to Skaletz's statements, there is no reference to Gunther Skaletz in the Lyndon Johnson presidential library: http://www.lbjlibrary.org/
9) Gunther's younger sister Anna G., Berlin, Germany, refutes his presentation as a complete fiction;
After he was exposed as a fraud in his former home in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Skaletz now resides in Lake Ozark, Missouri, where he still parades his pompous person to the public.
The book desperately needs proofreading and editing. The author has self-published this morass because no legitimate publisher would even consider standing behind such fictitious self-promotion.
Mr. Skaletz may well have experienced WW II as an adolescent, but the account is NOT legitimate, rather simply a fabricated tale.
Discrepancies:
1) There is no record of Mr. Skaletz in the Shoah Foundation database of Holocaust survivors:
https://sfi.usc.edu/vha
2) The Jewish Claims Conference, New York, has no record of Gunther Skaletz as a Holocaust survivor: 1-646-536-9100
3) There is no record of any Holocaust survivor or victim named Skaletz in the Yad Vashem Archive, Jerusalem:
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/
4) Skaletz cites he was in Auschwitz, yet he has no ID number tatoo on his arm.
5) There is no record of Gunther Skaletz in Holocaust archive in Bad Arolsen, Germany:
https://collections.arolsen-archives....
6) The German military archives in Freiburg and Berlin have no record of Gunther Skaletz serving in the German army from April 1944 to April 1945:
https://www.bundesarchiv.de
7) The German Agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Records from the former East German Secret Police, has no record of any Gunther Skaletz ever having lived in East Berlin nor in East Germany (GDR).
https://www.bstu.de/en/
8) Contrary to Skaletz's statements, there is no reference to Gunther Skaletz in the Lyndon Johnson presidential library:
http://www.lbjlibrary.org/
9) Gunther's younger sister Anna G., Berlin, Germany, refutes his presentation as a complete fiction;
10) Gunther's daughter Anne H., Missouri, renounces his tall tales:
https://groups.google.com/g/soc.cultu...
After he was exposed as a fraud in his former home in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Skaletz now resides in Lake Ozark, Missouri, where he still parades his pompous person to the public.