When Adolf Hitler won the Nobel Peace Prize, fifty years ago in 1946, my mother, father, sisters, and I listened with rapture to the ceremonies on the radio and then watched them on the weekend newsreels like everyone else who lived in Munich. My father, who was a Munich policeman, never seemed happier as we celebrated this bold man of peace, The Fuhrer who saved Europe from world war and solved the problem of the Jews.
—Levi Furstenblum,
from his novella, CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, written in 1951