It wasn’t long before the Germans learned one of their captives was the son of the famous writer and, with Ernest Hemingway enjoying a surprisingly large fan base within the Nazi leadership, Jack spent the remainder of the war in the relative comfort of some of Germany’s better prisons. “I saw Jack after the war,” Sichel recalled, “and I asked him, ‘Jack, what the hell happened up there?’ He just sort of laughed about it.”
