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The Professor Has a Daring Past (nytimes.com)
92 points by hvo on April 30, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



some lucky 20-year olds at Bard college who happen to sign up for a class by Prof Justus Rosenberg are in for an intellectual experience that they will likely never forget. This NYT article is about the 95-year old professor, who During WW II, was an intelligence agent for the French, then a soldier in the US Army's 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. He Makes Jason Bourne look like a shopping mall security guard. Yet while the professor possesses extraordinary deep knowledge of the underground resistance in Eastern Europe during WW II, he's apparently quite vague when it comes to talking about his own role: “I was dreaming of beautiful French girls. I was 16. Let’s not kid ourselves."


What a story. It makes me sad that we don't celebrate people like this fellow more.


What a wonderful story!




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