the jewish boy who hid amongst the nazis. solomon perel was born to a jewish family in 1925. when he was 10 he was forced to flee to poland with his family. 2 years later, his parents went to a ghetto and he wound up in an orphanage where he learned russian. when hitler broke the german soviet non agression pact in 1941 he was captured, destroying his jewish papers and under a false name, he claimed to actually be of german origin and that he had lost his papers proving so, the germans believed him and he was inducted into the wehrmacht where he was popular among his peers, but the secret he kept made him feel lonely. he was afraid of group showers because he was circumsized, and if anybody saw, it could very quickly get him killed. in 1942 he was sent to the hitler youth boarding school as a student where he was shown awful characatures of his fellow jews and indoctrinated in the 'pure aryan' way of life. by june 1944 the inevitable outcome of the war was obvious. Solomon, now a deployed platoon leader Would be captured and spared by american forces due to his young age of 19 . after the war was over he was free to go back to his real name, later publishing a book about his experiences and that would be turned into a movie called europa europa. He died February 2nd 2023 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRfAKyujaD8

Transcription: On august 12th 1943, in the midst of world war 2, a fleet consisting of the uss iowa, 2 escort carriers, and 3 destroyers are en route to the tehran conference where president franklin d roosevelt would meet with Winston churchill and Joseph stalin. The uss iowa, the largest and slowest of the ships was in command. Fleet admiral Ernest Joseph king gave the order to conduct combat drill training with The Iowa as the pretend target. It launched large weather balloons over itself which the crew of the iowa promptly destroyed with its anti-aircraft guns. Phase 2 was a torpedo assault, the accompanying destroyers crew were to remove the primers from their torpedos and the exercise was conducted all the way down to pulling the trigger targeting the iowa. The first round went off without a hitch. The torpedos had not left their tubes, on the second round however A whooshing sound was heard as panic set in. Unbeknownst to the crew of the willie dee porter President Roosevelt himself was on board of the Iowa, along with many cabinet members and high ranking military officials. The iowa tried frantically to shoot the torpedo out of the water with anti-aircraft guns but wasn’t able to. fortunately the torpedo missed and From then on, any ship that encountered the Willie dee greeted them with ‘dont shoot! We’re republicans’ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vN_7oACk2k