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I find it strange, the author should have known that the V-3 mention in the book is a giant cannon the Germans build in occupied France in OTL, but at least Rocket U-boat program he mention is real
Photos of Fatherland
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Pictures of German forces on the advance across the Caucasus during "Operation Case Blue" during the summer of 1942, it was the offensive which would win Germany the war in the East.
Pictures of abandoned Soviet tanks in 1943, as the Soviet war machine simply ran out of fuel after being cut off from it's main supply of fuel in the Caucasus the year before.
Admiral Donitz meeting a U boat crew at Wilhelmshaven in 1944. The German U boats have just changed their cypher codes which allowed them to win the Battle of the Atlantic and starve Britain into defeat.
Hitler shakes hands with Doenitz after the defeat of the British
Hitler shakes hands with Doenitz after the defeat of the British
Doenitz in 1972 during his "second retirement". He had retired as the Head of the German Navy in 1950 aged 60. He was highly respected, Speer and General Heusinger meet with him secretly in May 1964 within hours of Hitler's death. He agreed to support the coup and called for Naval forces to support it. He accepted the title of "Deputy Reich President" under Speer and served until his retirement in 1970. He died in 1980 a year before his 90th birthday and year before Speer's death.
South African police puts down a black protest, 1960. After the end of WW2, South Africa and Germania would go on to become close allies in the 1950s. And would later become a safe haven for many Loyalist Nazis.
Chinese Communists delighted at the news of the fall of Ürümqi and thus giving the Communists full control of Xinjiang. 1969.
Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll.
Chinese Communists delighted at the news of the fall of Ürümqi and thus giving the Communists full control of Xinjiang. 1969.
Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll.
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Got to say I can't see Heydrich doing a runner, I think he would have been killed during the Coup. The book clearly makes him out to be the heir apparent to Hitler.
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A 1949 copy of "Der Spigel" with King Edward VIII and Queen Wallis on the cover to celebrate five years since the signing of the "Anglo-German Friendship Treaty" which ended Britain's involvement in World War 2.
A Swissair Caravelle plane seen here at Zurich Airport in 1964. It was on one of these planes that Charlotte Maguire using the passport of Magda Voss left Zurich on the 2.PM flight to New York's Idlewild Airport on Monday April 20th 1964 carrying the proof of the holocaust.
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American Ambassador to the Greater German Reich Charles Lindbergh seen here in 1963. Lindbergh had been the Republican Presidential nominee in 1944 but lost to narrowly to FDR. Lindbergh wanted peace with Germany and found common cause with Democrats such as Joseph P Kennedy snr. Despite being from different parties Lindbergh endorsed Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 and was rewarded with the Ambassadorship to Germany.
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After his landslide defeat for re-election in 1964 President Joseph Kennedy had a breakdown and suffered a stroke in 1965. He died in 1969. Kennedy is seen here in 1966 in a wheelchair.
Charles Lindbergh on the campaign trail in October 1944. He lost to FDR despite winning 253 electoral votes to the President's 278 electoral votes.
The remains of the convoy which was carrying Charles Lindbergh to an anti-Jewish rally in Pittsburgh, January 1965. Lindbergh had dismissed the revelations of the holocaust as a "Jewish forgery" and praised the Nazi Government in Berlin prior to Hitler's death. Following the coup he was sacked by President Kennedy, Lindbergh was furious and returned to the United States remained convinced that the holocaust was faked. The convoy taking Lindbergh to the rally was destroyed by two car bombs. A group called "The Avengers of Auschwitz" claimed responbality.
The super-cannon was commissioned after the POD.
So maybe the money and the designation went to Von Braun's Amerika Rakete.