Figure 1.--Here the Bergdoll family visiting their husaband and father at the military facilitily where he is being tried. |
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Bergdoll seems to have attempted to sneak into America again. He was odentified and surendered to American authorities just outside of port (May 1939). At the time Hitler was finalizing his plans for war. He got out just in time. Once arived there was an effort to send him back to Germany. Congressman Forest Harness sponsored a bill barring the reentry of any draft dodgers who had escaped custody and fled to a foreign country. We thought his wife and children were already in America, but a news reel depicts his arrested at sea. And then show Bertha with one of the boys We are not sure if they were with him or wauiting fort him in port. They may have stayed after coming over in 1935. We see them visiting Grover in jail while he as being proceuted by authorities. Presumably his wife attended the trial. After another court-martial, he was sentenced to serve the remainder of his original term plus 3 years. He was realeased (1944). He and Bera divorced (1960). They had a total of eight children together. One of theboys, Alfred, became a draft dodger in the Korean War.
His mental illnessbecame more pronounced in his last years. He was committed to the Westbrook Psychiatric Hospital in Virginia. His son, Alfred, and lawyer, David Meade White, were his guardians. He died from pneumonia at he age of 72 years (1966).
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