![]() ![]() ![]() He and his glamorous second wife attained an enviable position in Venezuela: rich, cultured, well respected, and socially prominent. After the war-during which his parents and 23 other relatives were murdered by the Nazis-Neumann settled in Caracas, and he and his brother founded a paint company that became an international conglomerate. That daring feat alone might make his story unique, but there is much more to it. When he learned that he was scheduled to be deported from Nazi-occupied Prague to a concentration camp, Hans Neumann took a brazen step: He hid in plain sight, assuming a false identity and going to work as a chemist for a supplier of the German war machine in Berlin. A London-based former foreign correspondent for Venezuela’s Daily Journal uncovers the true story of her Jewish father’s double life during World War II. ![]()
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