During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they concealed their treasures and fled. Most of these men were eventually apprehended, but many managed to evade capture. The intensive postwar Allied investigation that followed recovered only a sliver of this mountain of gold. What happened to the rest of it, and what fate befell these men? Authors Alford and Savas answer these questions and many more in this fast-paced and well-written new book. Their groundbreaking study is based upon thousands of pages of previously unpublished and recently declassified documents. The result is a fresh and absolutely original reading experience that offers insights into the minds and methods of these SS thieves, the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) within which they labored, how they achieved their positions of near-absolute power, the complex Allied investigation into their activities, and what happened to the vast sums of wealth they looted from Europe's Jews. Nazi Millionaires deftly captures the high drama surrounding these men and women and the secrets they carried with them during the closing days of World War II - and in some cases, to the grave. It is a remarkable tale of greed, lust, fraud, deceit, treachery, and murder. And it is one you will long remember. About the Authors: Kenneth D. Alford, of Richmond, Virginia, is the author of Great Treasure Stories of World War II and The Spoils of World War II. Theodore P. Savas has written or edited a dozen books, including Silent Hunters: German U-Boat Commanders of World War II. He lives in El Dorado Hills, California. Table of Contents Preface / Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Introduction: The Rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany Chapter 1: The Devil’s Duo: Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Röhm Chapter 2: Hitler’s Rogues: Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner Chapter 3: Franz Konrad: The King of the Ghetto Chapter 4: Playing God in Budapest: The Kastner-Becher Faustian Bargain Chapter 5: Fischhorn Castle: The Last SS Headquarters Chapter 6: The Moneymakers Chapter 7: A Bureaucrat and His Gold: Josef Spacil’s Final Days of World War II Chapter 8: Betrayal: The Discovery of Josef Spacil Chapter 9: Ghetto Konrad’s Hidden Wealth Chapter 10: Walter Hirschfeld and the Search for Eva Braun’s Jewels Chapter 11: Kurt Becher: The Only White Sheep in the Black SS? Chapter 12: Fall From Grace: Walter Hirschfeld and the Counter Intelligence Corps Chapter 13: Ernst Kaltenbrunner’s Missing Sacks of Gold Chapter 14: Adolf Eichmann’s Blaa Alm Gold Chapter 15: The Frau Connection: Iris Scheidler and Elfriede H_ttl Chapter 16: The Gold Trade in Upper Austria Chapter 17: The Bloody Red Cross? Walter Schellenberg’s “External Assets” Postscript: Loose Ends Bibliography Index

Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold

Biographies & Memoirs

Alford, Kenneth

Savas, Theodore P.

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Casemate

During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they concealed their treasures and fled. Most of these men were eventually apprehended, but many managed to evade capture. The intensive postwar Allied investigation that followed recovered only a sliver of this mountain of gold. What happened to the rest of it, and what fate befell these men? Authors Alford and Savas answer these questions and many more in this fast-paced and well-written new book. Their groundbreaking study is based upon thousands of pages of previously unpublished and recently declassified documents. The result is a fresh and absolutely original reading experience that offers insights into the minds and methods of these SS thieves, the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) within which they labored, how they achieved their positions of near-absolute power, the complex Allied investigation into their activities, and what happened to the vast sums of wealth they looted from Europe's Jews. Nazi Millionaires deftly captures the high drama surrounding these men and women and the secrets they carried with them during the closing days of World War II - and in some cases, to the grave. It is a remarkable tale of greed, lust, fraud, deceit, treachery, and murder. And it is one you will long remember.About the Authors: Kenneth D. Alford, of Richmond, Virginia, is the author of Great Treasure Stories of World War II and The Spoils of World War II. Theodore P. Savas has written or edited a dozen books, including Silent Hunters: German U-Boat Commanders of World War II. He lives in El Dorado Hills, California.Table of ContentsPreface / AcknowledgmentsDramatis PersonaeIntroduction: The Rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi GermanyChapter 1: The Devil’s Duo: Heinrich Himmler and Ernst RöhmChapter 2: Hitler’s Rogues: Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst KaltenbrunnerChapter 3: Franz Konrad: The King of the GhettoChapter 4: Playing God in Budapest: The Kastner-Becher Faustian BargainChapter 5: Fischhorn Castle: The Last SS HeadquartersChapter 6: The MoneymakersChapter 7: A Bureaucrat and His Gold: Josef Spacil’s Final Days of World War IIChapter 8: Betrayal: The Discovery of Josef SpacilChapter 9: Ghetto Konrad’s Hidden WealthChapter 10: Walter Hirschfeld and the Search for Eva Braun’s JewelsChapter 11: Kurt Becher: The Only White Sheep in the Black SS?Chapter 12: Fall From Grace: Walter Hirschfeld and the Counter Intelligence CorpsChapter 13: Ernst Kaltenbrunner’s Missing Sacks of GoldChapter 14: Adolf Eichmann’s Blaa Alm GoldChapter 15: The Frau Connection: Iris Scheidler and Elfriede H_ttlChapter 16: The Gold Trade in Upper AustriaChapter 17: The Bloody Red Cross? Walter Schellenberg’s “External Assets”Postscript: Loose EndsBibliographyIndex

Honest businessman or con-artist? Loyal friend or "selective sociopath"? This was Jim Atwood, a colorful Savannah native who, like a Rembrandt chiaroscuro painting, was a study in light and dark, moving from bon vivant to Bad Boy effortlessly.In a fascinating narrative, the author tells of a lovable rogue who barely avoided a military stockade yet still become a Lieutenant Colonel in a high-profile Army intelligence post. A man who prospered working alongside rogue CIA agents, generals, criminals, and at least one agent from the "other side." He could enthrall Senators or laborers and dazzle the ladies while at the same time being a man's man. Everyone who thought they knew him rarely saw the complete Jim. It remained for a few confidants to assemble the scattered pieces of the puzzle this James Bond-like man left behind at his demise.

Jim Atwood: Army Officer, Charmer, Entrepreneur, Collector, Risk-Taker, Rogue, & Con-Artist

History

Independently published

Casemate Pub

Of the many aspects of Adolf Hitler's life, one that has never been really fully documented is his romantic connection with Eva Braun as well as women who came before her in Der Führer's shadowy love life. Despite the thousands of books written about the mad genius, none has thoroughly explored and reliably documented his connection to Eva Braun, including their notorious suicides in the Führerbunker during the last days of the war in Germany. This book explores this and his other relationships in detail, including the shocking suicide of his half-niece Geli Raubal, whom Hitler doted upon, and his subsequent devastation--all thoroughly verified by thousands of pages of research from earlier sources and interviews. Only two women have emerged from most historical accounts: Hitler's niece "Geli" Raubal, his half-sister's daughter, and of course Eva Braun. (There were considerably more). It is Geli's and Eva's violent deaths, though, that captured the world's imagination in a gruesome way.Many readers and moviegoers / TV viewers are somewhat familiar with the last days in the bunker, with Hitler and his intimate circle far below ground while Soviet artillery shells were reducing Berlin to rubble, but that said, many particulars have gone unreported. Adolf and Eva mean to fill the gaps in this macabre yet exciting tale of the last hours of The Third Reich. It covers in detail the suicides of Goebbels and his wife after they had horrifically poisoned their children, the emotions and panicky infighting of those trapped underground, the attempted breakout of a handful of Nazi leaders, the last-minute marriage between Hitler and Eva, as well as the carefully-documented details of their suicides and disposal of the bodies.One key validating element, for example, is a narrative of the events in the bunker provided to his Soviet captors by Otto Günsche, a high-ranking Nazi that Hitler gave permission in writing to attempt a breakout. Three others that included Martin Bormann, who went with him were killed by the Soviets while Günsche somehow miraculously survived capture and the war and lived until 2003. Everything he told the Russians was later fully acknowledged, and the story is fascinating, including Günsche's up-close-and-personal account of Adolf's and Eva's last hours.Like a cheap parody of a Wagnerian opera finale, the two newlyweds were dispatched to "Valhalla," and that was the end of The Third Reich. What happened up to that point and afterwards makes for spellbinding reading.

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Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold

Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold

Jim Atwood: Army Officer, Charmer, Entrepreneur, Collector, Risk-Taker, Rogue, & Con-Artist

Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun: Twelve Years a Mistress, Two Days a Wife