To my friends and family,

Thank you for visiting my website regarding my book, Sitting on Top of the World. This website is dedicated to all of you who have encouraged me, starting in 2007 to complete the story of brothers, Kurt Wagner and Heinz Walker and once again, as I begin the process of seeking a publisher. I hope by visiting this site, you will obtain a more complete understanding of the status of this project that our short conversations never seem to accomplish. For those that have not read any of the draft chapters of Sitting on Top of the World, please review the table of contents where portions of some of the chapters are available.

I take no credit for this project and wish that the facts that drew me and so many of you into the lives of two brothers were not true. There were the enticing bits of information of Hitler’s Germany, brothers that lived within blocks of each other, but knew nothing of each other, a Jewish mother and a Christian father, a marriage and a divorce, the Holocaust, one brother brought up as a Jew and the other a Christian. Then the knockout punch, the father was a Nazi and Brownshirt. You all said the same thing I did, “It can’t be true.” Well it is true! I hope in the near future to have Sitting on Top of the World available for all of you to read.

Thanks again to everyone especially, Mary, Jacob, Matthew and Sarah.

Steve Richards