“NAZIS NIGHTMARE – HOW AN ARKANSAS COUNTRY LAWYER HELPED BRING NAZI WAR CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE” by William Walker
William Walker, author of “Nazi Nightmare,” will be the guest speaker at a special
presentation at the Wings of Honor Museum in Walnut Ridge, on Tuesday, Jan. 20,
at 6 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
The book “Nazis Nightmare – How An Arkansas Country Lawyer Helped Bring
Nazi War Criminals to Justice,” is a nonfiction narrative that follows the story of an
Arkansas lawyer’s role in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice in World War II as
part of the Counter Intelligence Corp (CIC). It chronicles how his father George
who was born in Helena in 1910 and attended boot camp at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.,
worked in the intelligence and counterintelligence corps mission to “Capture
Gestapo” in the second world war.
Using the daily wartime journals of his father found in a storage locker in 2005
along with more than 200 letters George wrote to his family, the book offers a
personal account of World War II. From Counter Intelligence Corps’ (CIC) mission
to “Capture Gestapo,” to the first mission of D-Day, to the very end of the war,
George wrote it all, William said.
During the war, George rose through the ranks of counterintelligence, eventually
leading multiple tactical reserve teams that reported to General Omar Bradley’s
command. His job, William said, was to oversee intelligence operations and
interrogations – tracking the movement of German forces while guarding against
espionage. George’s daily journals detail operations leading up to D-Day
and the Battle of the Bulge, to mention but a few.
One section that William said stood out the most addressed their last mission to go
to Sax Bunker and that three out of 431 of those men lived in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
They captured Hermann Fegelein, Heinrich Himmler’s attaché and Adolf Hitler’s
brother-in-law.
After the war, George returned to Arkansas and in 1952 he joined a fellow veteran
to open a law practiced in Jonesboro. He built a career as a corporate and estate
lawyer but also handled personal cases. He was also an avid outdoorsman who
raised bird dogs and often spent weekends fishing and hunting, William said.
George practiced law until declining health forced him to retire and he died in the
late 1980s. Walker says the book is about more than honoring one man’s service,
it’s a collection that will help younger generations understand the weight of
documenting history.
Walker will also make a presentation to the Military Officers Association of
America’s (MOAA) luncheon meeting Wednesday, Jan 20 at noon at the Golden
Corral restaurant on Highland Drive in Jonesboro. It too is open to the public. For
more information on that meeting, contact, CH Overbay at 870-919-1269 or
overbaych@gmail.com.