As their thousand-year Reich collapsed in flames and around them, senior Nazis were faced with four stark choices. They could kill themselves, like Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels; be…
He was a charming and charismatic clairvoyant. A celebrity showman in 1930’s Berlin, a millionaire media tycoon, friend of high-ranking Nazis, financier of the brown-shirted S.A. storm troopers and…
‘You love us when we’re heroes home on leave,’ wrote the First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, ’or wounded in a mentionable place.’ For a majority of soldiers, then as…