ROBERT EDSEL IS THE NAZI TREASURE HUNTER
Before his book Monuments Men became a star-packed feature film, author Bob Edsel was a Texas oilman. Once he made his pile, he sold his company and spent the next part of his life hunting down artwork that had been stolen by the Nazis.
Here is an article I did for D Magazine about him in 2011.
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2011/march/robert-edsel-is-the-nazi-treasure-hunter/
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Who was Hitler's Successor and Why the Heck should you care?
Why? Because the story of the Flensburg Reich of Grand Admiral Doenitz is a very strange piece of World War II history you probably don't know about!
Grand Admiral Doenitz unfortunate fate was that Hitler named him his successor right before he blew his brains out in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945. It was Hitler's way of rewarding Doenitz for being the only Nazi leader not seeking a surrender. As a result, Doenitz got stuck with cleaning up Hitler's mess and having to surrender what was left of the Third Reich to the Allies. But then Doenitz got stuck with running a post-Hitler Nazi government for three whole weeks under Allied supervision. During that time all kinds of weird things happened.
The Flensburg 'Reich' is the setting of GERMANIA, a Novel, published by Simon & Schuster and now available (DIRT CHEAP) as an E-Book.
To find out more just hit this link:
https://artandseek.org/2009/02/11/book-review-germania-by-brendan-mcnally/
Why? Because the story of the Flensburg Reich of Grand Admiral Doenitz is a very strange piece of World War II history you probably don't know about!
Grand Admiral Doenitz unfortunate fate was that Hitler named him his successor right before he blew his brains out in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945. It was Hitler's way of rewarding Doenitz for being the only Nazi leader not seeking a surrender. As a result, Doenitz got stuck with cleaning up Hitler's mess and having to surrender what was left of the Third Reich to the Allies. But then Doenitz got stuck with running a post-Hitler Nazi government for three whole weeks under Allied supervision. During that time all kinds of weird things happened.
The Flensburg 'Reich' is the setting of GERMANIA, a Novel, published by Simon & Schuster and now available (DIRT CHEAP) as an E-Book.
To find out more just hit this link:
https://artandseek.org/2009/02/11/book-review-germania-by-brendan-mcnally/
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