Thomas Goodrich - Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944–1947

Hellstorm

The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947

by
Michael Thomas Schoenlein

2010

Hellstorm
The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947
Copyright 2010 Michael Thomas Schoenlein

ISBN 1494775069
Language: English
Published in 2005 by Aberdeen Books

It was the most deadly and destructive war in human history. Millions were killed, billions in property was destroyed, ancient cultures were reduced to rubble--World War II was truly man's greatest cataclysm. Thousands of books, movies and documentary films have been devoted to the war. There has never been such a terrible retelling of the story, however, as one will find in Hellstorm. In a chilling "you-are-there" style, the author places the reader at the scene, in the moment. Throughout this book readers will see what Allied airman saw as they rained down death on German cities; or the reader will experience what those below experienced as they sat trembling in their bomb shelters awaiting that very same death from above. The reader will view up close the horrors of the Eastern Front during the last months of fighting and through the mud, blood and madness of combat they may come to understand how the same German soldiers, who only moments before had destroyed an enemy tank, could now risk their own lives to rescue the trapped Soviet crew inside. Readers will witness for themselves the fate of German women as the rampaging Red Army raped and murdered its way across Europe--all females, from "eight to eighty" feared the dreaded words, "Frau Komm." The worst nautical disasters in history which claimed thousands of lives, the greatest mass migration known to man in which millions perished, the fate of those wretched victims in post-war death camps and torture chambers, these and many other dark secrets of World War II now come to light in Hellstorm.

Contents

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Juergen Thorwald, Flight in the Winter (New York: Pantheon, 1956), 13; Martin K. Sorge, The Other Price of Hitlers War (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986), 126.

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Thorwald, 13.

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Marlis G. Steinert, Hitlers War and the Germans (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977), 292.

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Alfred M. deZayas, Nemesis at Potsdam (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), 61.

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Ibid.

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Ibid., 6263.

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Ibid., 63.

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Sorge, Other Price, 119.

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Ibid., 117.

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DeZayas, Nemesis, 63.

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New York Times, August 7, 1933; Ralph Grandinetti, Germanys Plan to Resettle Jews in Madagascar, The Barnes Review 4, no. 3 (May/June 1998): 26.

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Ben Hecht, A Guide for the Bedeviled (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1944), 120, 125, 130, 144, 155, 156.

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Theodore N. Kaufman, Germany Must Perish! (Newark, N. J.: Argyle Press, 1941), 6, 7, 28, 86.

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Ibid., 8889;Michael F. Connors,Dealing in Hate (Torrance, Calif.: Institute for Historical Review, 1970), 28.

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Russell D. Buhite, Decisions at Yalta (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1986), 25; Eugene Davidson, The Death and Life of Germany (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1959), 6; Gregory Douglas, Gestapo Chief 3 (San Jose, Cal.: R. James Bender, Pub., 1998), 187.

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Buhite, Yalta, 23.

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Diary of Henry Morgenthau, entry for March 20, 1945.

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Buhite, 25; The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1948), 207208.

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Paul Fussell, Wartime (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 122.

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Russell Grenfell, Unconditional Hatred (New York: Devin-Adair, 1953), 117.

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DeZayas, Nemesis, 6566; Thorwald, Flight, 33.

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DeZayas, 66.

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Sorge, Other Price, 127.

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Sorge, Other Price, 101.

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Ibid., 102.

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Ibid.

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Martin Middlebrook, The Battle of Hamburg (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1981), 244.

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Ibid.

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Stephen A. Garrett, Ethics and Airpower in World War II (New York: St. Martins Press, 1993), 44.

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Sorge, 90.

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Garrett, Ethics and Airpower, 31.

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Max Hastings, Bomber Command (New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1979), 181.

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Garrett, xiii.

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Ilse Koehn, Mischling, Second Degree (New York: Greenwillow, 1977), 194195.

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Ilse McKee, Tomorrow the World (London: J.M. Dents & Sons, 1960), 130131.

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Peter Pechel, Dennis Showalter and Johannes Steinhoff, Voices from the Third Reich (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1989), 224.

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Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954), 19.

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Alexander McKee, Dresden 1945 (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982), 261.

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Jan Montyn and Dirk Ayelt Kooiman, A Lamb to Slaughter (New York: Viking, 1985), 6869.

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Olga Held Bruner, unpublished manuscript, 97.

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Koehn, Mischling, 188189.

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Sorge, Other Price, 109.

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Middlebrook, Battle of Hamburg, 147.

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Sorge, 109.

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Middlebrook, 147.

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McKee, Tomorrow the World, 133.

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Kamilla C. Chadwick, The War According to Anna (Woodside, Calif.: Seven Stones Press, 1986), 53.

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McKee, Dresden, 208.

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Pechel et al, Voices From the Third Reich, 225.

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Ibid.

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McKee, Dresden, 137138.

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Chadwick, Anna, 53.

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Anonymous, Woman in Berlin, 273274.

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Bruner manuscript, 113.

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Middlebrook, Hamburg, 258.

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Hastings, Bomber Command, 315.

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Anonymous, Woman, 24.

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Ibid.

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Koehn, Mischling, 189190.

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Ibid., 190.

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Montyn, Lamb to Slaughter, 71.

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Chadwick, Anna, 5354.

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Sorge, Other Price, 109.

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Middlebrook, Hamburg, 274.

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Ibid., 169170.

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Ibid., 295.

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Bruner, 120121.

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Hastings, 315.

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Ibid.

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Pechel, Voices, 463.

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Montyn, Lamb, 7172.

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Garrett, Ethics and Airpower, x.

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McKee, Dresden, 169.

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Hastings, Bomber Command, 311312

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McKee, Dresden, 140.

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Middlebrook, Hamburg, 269.

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Ibid., 265.

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Hastings, 312.

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Middlebrook, 147.

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Ibid., 264.

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Ibid., 268.

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Hastings, 312.

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Ibid., 313.

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Middlebrook, 266267.

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Ibid., 268269.

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Ibid., 274, 275.

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Hastings, 321.

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Middlebrook, 276.

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Hastings, Bomber Command, 321.

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Middlebrook, Hamburg, 266, 272; Hastings, 319.

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Hastings, 321, 322.

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Middlebrook, 374.

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Ibid.

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Ibid., 279.

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Pechel, Voices, 226.

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Ursula von Kardorff, Diary of a Nightmare (New York: John Day, 1966), 191.

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Middlebrook, 279280.

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Hastings, 322.

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Ibid., 171.