Lou Weissberg

Lou Weissberg was part of the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) of the United States Army during World War II. He was critical in battling the German Freedom Front uprising that began in the immediate aftermath of the surrender of Germany, although his battle proved futile in the face of the public opinion of the American people.

Weissberg was an English teacher in Jersey City, New Jersey when WW II began. He joined the Army and was assigned to the CIC, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant. On May 9, 1945, Weissberg was assigned to investigate the murder of two US soldiers, Charlie Pytlak and Dom Lombardo in Lichtenau. Both men had been blown to pieces by a large bomb. Weissberg soon sensed that something bigger might be happening.

This feeling was confirmed in July, when a German strapped a bomb to his body and detonated it in a crowd of American GIs watching a pick-up baseball game in Erlangen. After interviewing a surviving witness, town councillor Anton Herpolsheimer, Weissberg realized that an organization was at work.

Unfortunately, Weissberg found himself one step behind the GFF. American forces were unable to prevent the assassination of George Patton. Weissberg attended Patton's funeral in Erlangen, and was heartened by General Dwight Eisenhower's call that the Americans stay until victory was absolute, or the previous four years would of fighting would be for nothing. However, Weissberg privately noted that the response to these sentiments wasn't as strong among his fellow soldiers as he'd have wanted.

Weissberg was present for the immediate aftermath of the GFF's attack on the Palace of Justice in Nurerburg in Demcember, 1945. The GFF detonated a truckbomb outside the Palace just before several critical Nazi leaders were to go on trial for war crimes. Over two-hundred people were killed, and the trials were put on hold. Weissberg did what he could to help the injured, and then gave an interview to William Shirer, describing the event. (Unknown to Weissberg, Diana McGraw heard the interview, which validated her own efforts to end the American occupation of Germany.)