Ralph Giordano (Writer) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Giordano (born March 23, 1923 in Hamburg) is a German writer and publicist. Giordano was born to a Sicilian father and a Jewish mother. Due to his Jewish heritage, he was soon persecuted by the Nazis during the Adolf Hitler regime. During World War II, his family survived the Holocaust by hiding at a friend's place. After his experiences, Giordano became a communist, but soon grew estranged because of his dislike for Stalinism and exited the German Communist Party in 1957. In 1964, Giordano joined the WDR as a journalist and stayed there until 1988.