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Everyone agrees that the Nazis were very, very bad and this makes them excellent villains for your heroes to go up against. But, assuming you aren't dealing with an Alternate History, everyone also knows that the Nazis will inevitably lose. So, how do you make the ones of your story more intimidating and threatening? Why, by giving them Powered Armor and alien allies, of course!

While no such thing would actually happen without serious alterations to the personalities of Adolf Hitler and most of the German high command, their Air Ministry, the RLM, in particular had roughly the same attitude towards research projects that a magpie would have in a tinfoil factory, there is some historical precedent. Nazi Germany was the first to create practical versions of numerous weapons and progressed enough in rocketry to injure or kill almost 100,000 British people with a few thousand rockets, and, courtesy of the USA's Operation Paperclip, earned nearly two thousand German scientists (such as Wernher von Braun) free passports to the US once the war was over. Many late-war experimental weapons were touted as Wunderwaffen (lit. "wonder weapons') that would enable the besieged Germans to turn the tide of the war and defeat the Allies or at least force a negotiated peace.

Despite this reputation for producing very sophisticated weapons and equipment, the reality was that most Nazi super-weapons were incredibly expensive and in the vast majority of cases totally impractical. Moreover, many of them were also less refined and efficient ("advanced") than the experimental devices being tested in the outside world. For example, jetpack technology itself wasn't rendered workable until 1958 and, without an alternative fuel source, still remains impractical today. Many of the super-heavy tank designs Germany ca

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CONTENTS

Preface to the Seventh Edition Introduction to the Third Edition ONE HITLER AND HIS COURT TWO HITLER IN DEFEAT THREE THE COURT IN DEFEAT FOUR CRISIS AND DECISION FIVE THE SIEGE OF THE BUNKER SIX ET TU BRUTE SEVEN THE DEATH OF HITLER

Epilogue Note on Sources Index

PLAN OF HITLER’S BANKER

PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION

It is now fifty years since I was appointed by the late Sir Dick White, then head of Counter-Intelligence in the British Zone of Germany, to find out, if possible, what had happened to Hitler, who, by that time, had been missing for over four months. I carried out my task and made my report to the Four Power Intelligence Committee in Berlin on 1 November 1945. That report, which is sometimes cited as ‘The British Intelligence Report on the Death of Hitler’, completed my official duty. Afterwards, when I had been demobilized, Sir Dick White persuaded me to write this book, which was first published in March 1947. I then dedicated it to him. I now dedicate it to his memory, as its only begetter, and my constant friend. After fifty years a book which has never been out of print may celebrate a modest jubilee, and in this preface I shall give a brief account of its fortune over those years. I have already said something of this in the introductory chapter, which began as the introduction to the third edition; but even that chapter was written nearly forty years ago, when the events of 1945 were still fresh in memory. Now, for most readers, they have sunk into history; so I can look back on the matter from a more distant perspective and take a somewhat longer view. The immediate problem which faced me in 1945 was the personal fate of Hitler. That was my brief, and I kept to it. But in addition to this first problem, the German problem, there was also a second problem which, though distinct, coul

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IAN KERSHAW

THE ‘HITLER MYTH’ Image and Reality in the Third Reich

CLARENDON PRESS

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The personality of Hitler himself can scarcely explain his immense popularity and political effectiveness in the 1930s and 40s: his hold over the German people lay rather in the hopes and perceptions of the millions who adored him. In this study of the Nazi state, based largely on the reports of government officials, party agencies, and political opponents, Dr Kershaw charts the creation, growth, and decline of the ‘Hitler Myth’. He demonstrates how the manufactured Fiihrer-cult formed a crucial integrating force in the third Reich and a vital element in the attainment of Nazi political aims. Masters of the new techniques of propaganda, the Nazis used them to exploit and build on the beliefs, phobias and prejudices of the day. Their successful ‘deification’ of the Führer in a modem industrial state carries a far from comfortable message. This is a completely refashioned version of a book originally written and published in Germany under the title Der Hitler-Mythos. Volksmeinung und Propaganda im Dritten Reich. Ian Kershaw is a Senior Lecturer in Modem History at the University of Manchester.

Jacket illustration: stylized portrait of Hitler by Fritz Erler, 1938 from F. v. Grunfeld’s The Hitler File, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974; and a crowd of ecstatic supporters. The Wiener Library.

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The Nazis were the main villains of The Puppet Master franchise which ruled Germany until the death of its founder The Führer - this title may also refer to individuals who follow Neo-Nazism: a movement that seeks to either recreate a Nazi State or idealises Hitler's beliefs of racial purity and military aggression. Despite the fact that original Nazi Party is gone now, their actions and existence has a large impact with popular culture, where they became primary inspirations of many works of fictions.

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Andre and Elsa Toulon have now taken residence, a Wehrmacht lieutenant learns that Toulon's puppets are sentient. Toulon is arrested by the Gestapo, two of his puppets are confiscated and Elsa is murdered. Toulon escapes and uses his puppets to avenge his wife. While in hiding, a fellow refugee reveals Toulon's location to the Gestapo, who infiltrate his hideout and force him to flee. Assisted by his puppets, Toulon tortures Major Kraus, the man who killed Elsa and organized the several attempts to arrest Toulon. Afterwards, he and a child refugee, Peter Hertz, flee to Geneva, Switzerland by train. After reuniting Hertz with relatives, Toulon continues his travels to the Swiss border, taking shelter from rainfall at an unattended inn, where he tells his puppets the story of Afzel and of his original puppets. Continuing his journey to the United States, Toulon takes shelter at the Bodega Bay Inn in Bodega Bay, California. The Gestapo, however, have traced his location and two soldiers are sent to the hotel to assassinate him. With the chest containing his puppets and secrets hidden inside a wall panel, Toulon commits suicide before the assassins can infiltrate his