Georg Stefan Troller

Georg Stefan Troller (10 December 1921 – 27 September 2025) was an Austrian-born German-language journalist, writer, director and screenwriter, who became a US-Citizen in WWII and finally settled in Paris in 1949, where he lived until the end of his life.

Troller was born on 10 December 1921 to a Jewish family. In 1938, he fled Austria from the Nazis, first to Czechoslovakia and from there on to France, where he was interned as an enemy alien. In 1941, he obtained a visa for the United States in Marseille. His parents were able to escape via Portugal.

In the United States, he was drafted into military service in 1943 and participated in the liberation and documentation of the Dachau concentration camp on 29 April 1945, as well as the capture of Munich on 1 May. Serving as an interpreter, he interrogated German prisoners of war. He was present in Munich when Allied troops searched Hitler's private residence. He was stationed in Europe until 1946 and worked for the Rot-Weiß-Rot radio station operated by the U.S. forces.