By I guess there are all kinds of ways of being famous, or infamous. My father claimed his fame by clandestinely returning into Nazi Germany in 1944 after a number of years of exile. After the war, he wrote a report about it, or rather, two: one in German, one in English. The English one you can find here:
Step into the time machine and return with us to September 1st, 1944…
Denney Home Place 