Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Family history: Peter Zamperini, telephone interviews, October 19, 22, 2004.

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Boyhood stories: Art Rosenbaum, “Zamperini Cheated Death Nine Times,”

San Francisco Chronicle

Sporting Green, March 3, 1940; Maxwell Stiles, “Fire Threatened Career of Zamperini as Child,”

Los Angeles Examiner

, undated, 1938; Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 22, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

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“Pete never got caught”: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interview, October 25, 2004.

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Italians were disliked: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 15, 2004.

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“You could beat him”: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interview, October 25, 2004.

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“Louie can’t stand it”: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 17, 2004.

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Louie’s parents: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 15, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.

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“You only asked”: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 22, 2004.

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“It was a matter”: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interview, October 25, 2004.

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Louie’s troublemaking: Peter Zamperini, telephone interviews, October 15, 17, 19, 22, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004, and March 2, 2006.

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Improvising meals: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 22, 2004.

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Unemployment near 25 percent: United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce,

http://www.census.gov/rochi/www/fun1.html#1900

(accessed September 7, 2009).

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Eugenics: Paul Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization Laws,” Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org

(accessed April 13, 2006); Paul Lombardo, email interview, April 13, 2006; Edwin Black, “Eugenics and the Nazis—the California connection,”

San Francisco Chronicle

, November 9, 2003; Anthony Platt, professor emeritus, California State University, email interview, April 13, 2006; Anthony Platt, “The Frightening Agenda of the American Eugenics Movement” (remarks made before California Senate Judiciary Committee, June 24, 2003).

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Infecting patients with tuberculosis: Edwin Black, “Eugenics and the Nazis—the California Connection,”

San Francisco Chronicle

, November 9, 2003.

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Torrance boy threatened with sterilization: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

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He was “bighearted”: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 17, 2004.

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Listening to train: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.