A Guest of the Reich

A Guest of the Reich is the incredible true story of Gertrude Gertie Legendre an American heiress taken prisoner by the Nazis. Born into a wealthy family Legendre lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor she joined the OSSthe wartime spy organization that preceded the CIAand headed to Europe. In 1944 while on leave Legendre accidentally crossed the front lines along the LuxembourgGermany border and was captured. The Nazis treated her as a special prisoner of the SS and moved her from city to city throughout Germany where she witnessed the collapse of Hitlers Reich as no other American did before escaping into Switzerland. A gripping portrait of a multifaceted and deeply fascinating woman A Guest of the Reich is a propulsive account of a little-known chapter in the history of World War II.