Samuels had watched Nazi anti-Semitism
metastasize in his homeland. In 1937,
when he was 14, his family narrowly
escaped to America. With
the outbreak of war,
the Army at first
classified him as an
“enemy alien.” Then it
realized how valuable
he was. In the Counter
Intelligence Corps, one
of his fellow soldiers was
another German Jew,
Henry Kissinger.