Walter W. Williamson was a retired professor from Towson State
University in Maryland. He spent 1938-1939 in Germany on an exchange
fellowship from Lafayette College. While in Germany, he saw Hitler
in Berlin and witnessed the opening of Reich Chancellery where
Hitler later died. While in Germany he bicycled approximately 1600
miles through Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Holland. After
his experiences in Europe, he returned to the United States to spend
the next 28 years as a teacher at Temple University, Kutztown
University, a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii and a
professor at Towson State. He did additional work for Education
Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. Dr. Williamson retired in 1974
and resided in Longboat Key, Florida and Martha’s Vineyard,
Massachusetts. He dedicated this book, Heil Roosevelt, to his wife,
Florence, who gave meaning to his life. He compiled his account of
his stay in Germany from letters he sent back to the States to
Florence, who he became engaged to before he left.
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