Currently reading Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance and last night I finished Death’s End (final book of 3 Body Problem). That book series could’ve easily been cut down by hundreds of pages. Interesting idea but kind of hard to follow in a number of spots. I guess I wanted more aliens and space.
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Hitler's Commando: The Daring Missions of Otto Skorzeny and the Nazi Special Forces by one Otto Skorzeny. He was definitely a wild character before, during, and after the war.
If you like WWII I’d also suggest The Last Battle by Steven Harding. It’s about the Battle of Castle Itter where US Army and German Wehrmacht troops joined forces to save a handful of French VIP prisoners from an assault by the SS who had orders to kill them. Mind you this was before Germany officially surrendered.
The other book is I Was Hitler’s Chauffeur by Erik Kempka. It was an interesting perspective on Hitler that you don’t often get when it comes to WWII books.
They sound interesting and I do like WW2 history. Have never looked deeply on the German side but there is a lot yheee to study You have any WW2 vets in your family? Does the one about Hitler’s chauffeur give any opinion on whether he thinks he escaped?
Kempka’s book is interesting because it’s a more personal side of Hitler. Guy got drive Hitler around Germany while Hitler was going town to town campaigning. A lot of people that knew Hitler personally said they liked him. There is an interview on YouTube with one of his housekeepers at the Berghof and she still had a framed Christmas card from Hitler. If Kempka did think Hitler escaped he didn’t mention it. He does talk about helping burn the bodies at the Reichstag and the challenge of trying to actually find enough petrol from the remains of the motor pool.
My grandfather was Army in WWII except he fought in the Pacific. I have his uniforms, letters, a Japanese flag and officers sword he brought back.
Cool. My mom’s dad was in the pacific and my dad’s dad was in Europe. I went down the “did Hitler escape to Argentina” rabbit hole a dews years ago. Sone interesting testimony and FBI was taking reports well into the 50s.
There are entire German towns built down in South America after the war full of Nazis. The interesting one is about Martin Bormann. Mark Felton has some good videos about the conspiracy surrounding Bormann. The official story was he killed myself trying to escape Berlin in ‘45. However some of the evidence apparently is that the dirt on the skull found in the 70s that was identified as Bormann isn’t German but from South America. Some speculate that he did get away and when he does his remains were brought back to Germany to be magically found when some construction was happening. It makes more sense in Bormann’s case because he wasn’t publicly known like a Himmler or Goering.