PN1501 MUNICH — The Braun family did not commit the crimes of the Third Reich, but in the spring of 1945 they inherited a burden that would define the rest of their lives: a blood bond to Eva Braun, the woman who married Adolf Hitler in a Berlin bunker and died beside him within 40 hours … Read more
Myślę, że to miał być najgorszy dzień mojego życia. Okazał się dniem, w którym w końcu odzyskałam wolność. Wszystko zaczęło się, gdy zegar zbliżał się do siódmej w piątek wieczorem. Szmaragdowa suknia wieczorowa przylegała do skóry jak jedwab, gdy schodziłam po schodach w domu rodziców w Mount Pleasant. Pracowałam na dwóch dodatkowych etatach, żeby ją … Read more
One woman who was not inside the Führerbunker during the final days of the Second World War in Europe was a sister of Eva Braun, Gretl. Gretl would give birth a week after the death of Hitler and her sister Eva. And she then named her daughter after her much loved sister. But her husband, … Read more
Mi chiamo Colleen Marsh e ho sessantotto anni. Lo scorso autunno mio figlio ha organizzato una festa per la nuova casa. Sono arrivate quaranta persone. Io portai una scatola di cedro per cui avevo lavorato quattordici sabati. Ero in piedi dietro una sedia quando Nathan mi passò accanto con due bottiglie di vino in mano. … Read more
Newly resurfaced historical investigations into the fate of Carin Göring, the Swedish-born first wife of Nazi Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, have reignited international interest in one of the Second World War’s strangest and most macabre postscripts — the repeated exhumation, relocation, and eventual disappearance of her remains across three countries and more than six decades. … Read more
The official story of Johnny Ringo’s death has been repeated for more than a century: a dangerous cowboy, worn down by drink, loses his horse in the Arizona wilderness and dies by his own hand near Turkey Creek in July 1882. That version was accepted quickly, but the surviving evidence has never fit together as … Read more
“Prima l’ossigeno per lei. Non regge il fumo. Ha l’asma. ” Era la voce di mio marito che tagliava il frastuono dell’allarme antincendio e il rombo dell’impianto di spegnimento da qualche parte sotto di noi. La sentii nitida anche dal pianerottolo delle scale del quattordicesimo piano. Anche attraverso la tosse di mia figlia Bea contro … Read more
As the Third Reich collapsed in the spring of 1945, a network of secret maternity homes across Germany and occupied Europe began shutting their doors, leaving behind roughly 500 children on a continent unsure what to do with them. Some had been born there, some had been brought there, and many no longer had papers … Read more
Nazywam się Julian, mam trzydzieści pięć lat. Cztery miesiące temu wyczyściłem całe osobiste oszczędności, zawiesiłem własną, niezwykle dochodową karierę konsultanta korporacyjnego i z zamkniętymi oczami wkroczyłem w rodzinny biznes logistyczny, żeby uratować rodziców przed całkowitym bankructwem. Dałem im własne pieniądze, własne systemy operacyjne i własny pot. A jak mi się odwdzięczyli? Ojciec wysłał mi w … Read more
Friedrich Paulus was hiding in the basement of a ruined department store when Soviet soldiers found him, gaunt, unshaven, and surrounded by the remnants of his staff, a field marshal who had just been handed the clearest possible instruction from Adolf Hitler to die by his own hand rather than surrender. He refused. Within two … Read more