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Ziemer returned to Europe as a correspondent, embedded this time with General George Patton 's 3d Army. He provided information to Nuremberg Trial prosecutors about Nazi society.

Ziemer, who lived in California but summered in Lake City, kept busy as a writer of stories and articles and author of screenplays, contributing to the Saturday Evening Post and other popular magazines of the mid 20th century. He later served as a director of the American Foundation For The Blind as well as director of the Institute Of Lifetime Learning . Among his key contacts in his eleemosynary work was Hoagy Carmichael .

A manuscript for a book about the history of Water Skiing was discovered only recently among Ziemer's papers by one of his publishers.