In The Women Who Flew for Hitler, Clare Mulley unveils the intertwined yet contrasting lives of Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg, two of Nazi Germany’s female test pilots. These two women, while sharing a passion for flying and a commitment to their country, could not have been more different in their views and moral convictions. Mulley’s book is a...
Sufi dancer
We already mentioned some occult and secret society members who influenced war and pre-war decisions in England and worked for the intelligence services. In Germany there was a strange character named Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf. It has also been claimed that his real name was Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer. He founded the Germanen Order society and in 1919 he got...
The SS-Panzerkorps battles … amazing detailed page turner books by Douglas E. Nash! While the activities of American and British staffs of World War II are well documented and preserved, at least in their own formal command histories or chronologies, the staff histories of the German Army of that period—the Wehrmacht—have a checkered past. Not only did Germany lose the...
Joan Miller died in June 1984.  Despite efforts by MI5 Miller’s daughter managed to get her mother’s autobiography, One Girl’s War: Personal Exploits in MI5’s Most Secret Station, published in Ireland in 1986. Joan Miller was born in 1918. After leaving boarding school at 16 she found work in a tea-shop in Andover. This was followed by the post of...
Prof. Dr. Michael Vogt, born in 1953, is a distinguished figure in Germany, having studied history, German studies, and political sciences in Munich. Transitioning from academia, he embarked on a multifaceted career as a journalist, filmmaker, and lecturer in media and communication sciences. In 2013, he launched the internet platform “quer-denken.tv,” addressing a wide array of topics. In an interview...
foo fighter
Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a Foo Fighter. In late 1944 Reuters press agency reported that peculiar spheres, similar to the glass balls that decorate Xmas trees have been observed hanging in the air over Germany, occasionally singly, often times in clusters. They are primarily shaded silver and are seemingly translucent. Multiple sightings of these kinds of...
V2 Rocket
T-Force … In the spring of 1945 as the Allied army advanced into Germany there was one objective paramount for the vast majority of its troops – the prompt defeat of the Germans on the battlefield and the swift restoration of peace. However, there was one unit in and around the frontlines whose aim was very different. Unlike their frontline...
Operation Patent theft (Unternehmen Patentenraub). Plenty of present-day authors have demonstrated that the German science and technology in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s extended far beyond the flash and bang of atomic weapons, flying discs, rail guns and any other unfathomable, fascinating technological innovations. It extended into the everyday life of the post-war world. The Allies took thousands and thousands of patents from...
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