There was a common saying in Germany in the 1930s, “Lieber Gott, mach mich dumm, damit ich nicht nach Dachau kumm” (Dear God, make me
Just to let you know that I do have some criteria for this. Bond character names are excluded because they’re supposed to be silly, and
This’ll be brief, since we don’t actually know each other at all. But I’ve noted with some interest your effort to sever the sister city
Greg Simanson has done it again. This is the cover of Summer of Long Knives: How much impact did my views have on this cover,
As with many other things during the 1930s, the Nazi effort to bring the arts under their control was hamstrung by the turf wars that
I’ve been doing a lot of straight history on the blog over the last month or so, but when it came to Hitler, I saw
My books, and my writing in general, tends to go to dark places. Dismantle the Sun was all about cancer and loss. Summer of Long Knives is
According to the International Business Tribune, the Nazis ran a school for SS brides: Documents found in Germany’s Federal Archive uncovered a program designed to
The Kriminalpolitzei, known as Kripo, was the German equivalent of the British CID. It began in Prussia in the 1790s with six plainclothes detectives tasked to investigate
Because the building of a pure, highly populous Aryan racial community was central to the Nazi gospel, the Nazis were obsessed with driving women out