The following persons have played an enormously important part in helping me begin, continue and complete this journey, and without them it might well not have been undertaken. I wish to thank them all for their encouragement and support, be it in supplying materials, digging for data, pointing out sources, searching for the unfindable, editing, and above all for caring that the story of the lost boys finally be told.
Martha Allen
Annette Becker
Hilde Bresser Becker
Joachim Fechner
Marianne Grewe Partsch
Lothar Ingoldt
Eva Kegler Ziebura
Fritz Kindermann
Alexis von Königslöw
Rainer von Königslöw
Kier von Königslöw
Uta Kühn
Jürgen Kühn
Kitty Macaulay
Franz Nörling
Kyra Stromberg
Maria Elisabeth Veerhoff
Ingrid Vetter