MIDDLE EAST
Like many sensitive young Germans, Graduate Student Frowald Hüttenmeister felt a sense of guilt for Nazi atrocities against the Jews. Studying Hebrew, history and archaeology, he made field trips to the Middle East and came to identify himself with the Jews because, as he later put it, "I was so well received in Israel as a German." Along the way, he became deeply entangled in Israeli-Egyptian espionage, one of the less publicized but most bizarre branches of the spy business.
Recruited by an Israeli agent, Hüttenmeister became convinced that he could somehow make amends for Auschwitz and Buchenwald by...
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