Career
The events of his rescue during World World War II are also dramatized in a 1998 Showtime television-movie entitled Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families. Althoff warned the people he rescued with the code Go Fishing. In 1995 he was named one of The Righteous among the Nations, an Israeli honor.
He was born into the family in Sonsbeck, Germany.
At age 17 he became publicity director for his families of the circus. Althoff provided the Danners with false identity papers and had the family working under pseudonyms.