Alice Wexell was a career woman who entered the National Park Service in Washington D.C. in the early fifties and climbed to the rank of Inspector General, then Assistant Secretary of the Interior. But Alice Wexell was also an investigator and she ended her service as a career woman having married a man thirty-five years older than she was, in order to pursue her true calling and enjoy a full professional and public life. But when Alice Wexell retired, she turned her eye not on a government job, but instead on writing, traveling, taking long vacations, getting active in civic and other organizations, and finally ending up in a quiet country life with her grandchild, grandchildren, and great nieces and nephews, enjoying a good old fashion family vacation in New Hampshire.
It was on the outbreak of World War II that Alice Wexell decided to leave the government and pursue another profession, and it was then she met Vincent Nobile, an American GI who had been stationed in Germany. Together they worked in the Intelligence Service, working for the OSS (the Office of Strategic Services). Nobile was an extraordinary man in every sense of the word, a polyglot writer, a spy for hire who had infiltrated both British and German interests, and Alice Wexell discovered that he was also a very caring and giving person, who had a great devotion for his country. The two became a very loving couple, and their romance ended up becoming what is known today as a patriotic tale.
After the war, Alice was engaged in a business as a writer, but was fired by President Roosevelt because of her attitude regarding race. The fifties were a period of great social upheaval, and Alice was a target for the Gestapo because of her non-white status. But Alice found herself surrounded by beauty and success, and now she was famous as a writer in Hollywood. In this time of political turmoil, Alice Wexell was also harassed by the Gestapo under orders from Hitler. She was arrested under the accusation of “actively promoting a National Socialist agenda,” and her case was a matter of public record until her death at the age of 92.