Biography

Gregor Ziemer was an American educator and war correspondent who lived in Germany from 1928 to 1939, during which time he served as the headmaster of the American School in Berlin. After fleeing Germany once he saw what was about to happen, Ziemer returned to his wife Edna's hometown of Lake City, MN. "Ziemer wrote a couple of notable books about Nazi society: Education for Death", which inspired the eponymous Disney short (Éducation à la mort (1943)) and, more directly, Edward Dmytryk's classic Les enfants d'Hitler (1943); and, along with his daughter Patricia, "Two Thousand and Ten Days of Hitler".

Ziemer returned to Europe as a correspondent, embedded this time with Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army. He provided information to Nuremberg Trial prosecutors about Nazi society.

Ziemer, who lived in California but summered in Lake City, kept busy as a writer of stories and articles and author of screenplays, contributing to the Saturday Evening Post and other popular magazines of the mid-20th century. He later served as a director of the American Foundation for the Blind as well as director of the Institute of Lifetime Learning. Among his key contacts in his eleemosynary work was Hoagy Carmichael.

A manuscript for a book about the history of water skiing was discovered only recently among Ziemer's papers by one of his publishers.

- IMDb mini biography by: Scott Sanchez