Autor: W. R. Smyser

W. R. Smyser served at the U.S. Mission in Berlin from 1960 to 1964 and was assistant to General Lucius Clay during the Berlin Wall Crisis. He then served at the White House as senior staff and later at the United Nations as assistant secretary-general. He has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress. He has written numerous books and articles on Germany and Europe.