This is really a postscript to my other e-mail re this topic. I forgot to
say:
The same advice about contacting the German office for veteran info would
apply to Italy as well.
Also, it just occurred to me that the Canadian office for immigration info or
that of other North American countries might be of help. Many, many Germans
immigrated to Canada in the earlier 20th Century, as well as, of course,
Argentina and other Latin American countries. In fact, one of my German friends
here came to the USA because he met an American girl and married her--in Mexico
where he had come to from Hesse to visit his brother and family who had
emigrated in the 1920's and settled in Mexico. Another family I know came to the
U.S. many years ago from Canada, where they had gone because they could get a
visa to Canada, but not to the U.S. at the time they left Europe. I met another
man, a professor from Austria, whose family lived in Chile when he grew up
because Chile would grant them a visa during the war when many other countries
they had applied to would not. Later they all came to the U.S.
Again, good hunting!
KG