John G. Stoessinger
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John G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. (Harvard), a prize winning author of ten leading books on world politics, has been the recipient of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for History, and has served as Acting Director for the Political Affairs Division at the United Nations. On the eve of World War II, Dr. Stoessinger fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to Czechoslovakia. His family was saved by a Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, who issued three visa to transit Russia. He escaped to Shanghai via Siberia and Kobe. Dr. Stoessinger is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, lecturing extensively throughout the world, and serves as Distinguished Professor of Global Diplomacy at the University of California San Diego.
In the spring of 1977 Stoessinger was sentenced by Charles S. Haight, III to teaching prison inmates for failing to report fraud in excess of $260,000.
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This article uses text from Why Nations Go To War. Information is from the back cover of Ninth Edition Copyright 2005 Wadsworth, a division of Thomas Learning Inc.
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- Memorial Lecture by John G. Stoessinger (Japanese) at the Holocaust Education Center in Hiroshima, Japan
