Bailey - The lost boys a family ripped apart by war

Black Diamonds

The Secret Rooms

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First published 2019

Copyright Catherine Bailey, 2019

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Maps illustrated by Ian Moores

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ISBN: 978-0-241-25782-1

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In memory of my father Martin, with love

Innsbruck, 1939

The Wiesenhof orphanage

The villa at Brazz

A view of Brazz showing the castle and the farm

Robert Foster, Air Officer Commanding, Desert Air Force

Nonino at Brazz

Ulrich von Hassell with Hitler and Mussolini in Venice, 1934

Ulrich von Hassell with Mussolini in Rome, 1936

Fey, aged sixteen, with her father

The Hassell family, c. 1936: (from left to right) Wolf Ulli, Hans Dieter, Ulrich, Almuth, Fey and Ilse

SS chief Heinrich Himmler with Hassell (to his right) on National Police Day, Villa Glori, 1937. Auturo Bocchini, Italian chief of police, and Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Gestapo, are standing to the left of Himmler

General Ludwig Beck

Major General Henning von Tresckow

Fey in 1942

Fey and Detalmo celebrate their wedding at Ebenhausen, January 1940

Fey and Detalmo with Corrado, November 1940

Nonino and the farmhands at Brazz harness Mirko for an outing. Fey and Detalmo are seated in the trap.

Ulrich von Hassell with his grandsons, Corrado and Roberto, at Ebenhausen, June 1943

Fey with her mother, Ilse, and Detalmo at Ebenhausen, June 1943

Detalmo and Corrado in the garden at Brazz. The photograph was taken shortly before Detalmo was posted to the POW camp at Mortara

The Campo Imperatore Hotel, where Mussolini was imprisoned before being rescued by the SS on 12 September 1943

Cora di Brazz Slocomb, c. 1890

Lieutenant Hans Kretschmann with Corrado at Brazz, 1942

Corrado with the airmen at Brazz, 1943

The Thirteen Martyrs of Feletto Umberto, Premariacco, 29 May 1944

The wreckage of the map room at Hitlers headquarters in East Prussia, 20 July 1944

Ulrich von Hassells trial, September 1944

Claus von Stauffenberg

Captain Sigismund Payne Best

Bomb damage in Munich

Litta von Stauffenberg

Alex von Stauffenberg

The liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945

The Hotel Pragser Wildsee

The view from one of the hotel rooms

We are searching for these children! One of the posters circulated by Fey and Detalmo in the summer of 1945

Ewald Foth (second from the right) at the Stutthof trials in Gdask, January 1947

Himmlers corpse, photographed by a British Army official, minutes after his death from cyanide poisoning

On page 405

Fey with Corrado and Roberto in the summer of 1949

Fey at Brazz, c.1995

The majority of the photographs have been produced by kind permission of the Brazz family archive. The author and publisher are also grateful to the following for permission to reproduce photographs: H. Huber for .

Innsbruck, 1939 The Wiesenhof orphanage The villa at Brazz A view of Brazz showing the castle and the farm Robert Foster, Air Officer Commanding, Desert Air Force Nonino at Brazz Ulrich von Hassell with Hitler and Mussolini in Venice, 1934 Ulrich von Hassell with Mussolini in Rome, 1936 Fey, aged sixteen, with her father The Hassell family, c. 1936: (from left to right) Wolf Ulli, Hans Dieter, Ulrich, Almuth, Fey and Ilse SS chief Heinrich Himmler with Hassell (to his right) on National Police Day, Villa Glori, 1937. Auturo Bocchini, Italian Chief of Police, and Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Gestapo, are standing to the left of Himmler General Ludwig Beck Major General Henning von Tresckow Fey in 1942 Fey and Detalmo celebrate their wedding at Ebenhausen, January 1940 Fey and Detalmo with Corrado, November 1940