Fred Miller

Fred Miller (Originally Fritz Müller) was a German-American soldier in WW2.

Biography
Fritz Müller was born in the town of Riedlingen in Germany. His father and mother dreamt of a new life in the United States, so they travelled to America and settled in Milwaukee, where distant relatives owned the Miller Brewing Company. When America joined the First World War 1917, there was much anti-German sentiment, so Fred's family Americanised their names. Despite this, Fred's father would volunteer to fight in the US Army, where he would die fighting the Germans in France. Fred never forgave the Americans for their treatment of his family and friends in this period. He married in 1938 and had one child. Until 1940, he was still working at the Miller Brewery, but had plans to leave back to Germany. However, in 1940, he would be drafted into the US Army and would fight in North Africa, Italy and France.