Mike Walsh - Heroes of the Reich

HEROES OF

THE REICH

Mike Walsh

Heroes of

the Reich

FOREWORD

Researching Heroes of the Reich was for me uplifting. I know better than most what a depressing thing it is to write on World War Two matters. Not a mournful emotion is left untouched. When writing on related matters I experience a gamut of emotions. There is anger and outrage at the futility of war. There is an indignation and abhorrence that creatures, I refuse to call them human, could behave so monstrously to their fellow human beings. Wars teach us many lessons. We learn that conflicts and their aftermath polarise human behaviour. Wars also reveal humanity at is best, it most heroic and its most unselfishness.

Of post-war scribes, the palace journalists and their editors, documentary makers and establishment historians what can be said? Forensic science will fail to find human blood on their hands or clothing. Yet, all too often these are the very people who lay the groundwork for conflict. Their infamies are etched into posterity.

Such poison pen scribes are caricatures of Alberich, the hideous cave-dwelling dwarf in Wagners Ring Cycle. The subterranean caves in which they write their poisons are in their minds. To these I dedicate Heroes of the Reich.

My life has been remarkable for a series of coincidences. Some are so noteworthy they defy explanation. On three different occasions, inflamed by indignation, I wrote to three important figures. Each had much on their conscience to take before their Maker. Angrily, I set their sins before them. I cannot explain it, in each case the men died within a week or so of their presumably receiving those letters.

It was quite surreal. I felt like a hanging judge who, within weeks of sentencing, learns that the scaffold has done its work. That is, except under the most deserving cases, I abhor capital punishment and believe in karma doing its work. I took no comfort from these strange outcomes.

Those men were Harold Macmillan, 1 st Earl of Stockton (February 10, 1984 December 29, 1986). Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Victoria Cross September 7, 1917 July 31, 1992). Interestingly, the latter was an outspoken atheist until coincidence in 1948 turned him to God.

The third was William Golding (September 19, 1911 June 9, 1993). He was most notable for his novel The Lord of the Flies. Golding was not so well known for his being a champagne socialist and outspoken apologist for Josef Stalin and his Allied henchmen.

I dedicate Heroes of the Reich (Heroes of the Reich) to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. These are Georgian Josef Stalin, half American Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose ethnic origins are anti-Christian. Finally, the sinister shadowy cabal without which these three men would have merited only the bitterness of alcohol-fuelled obscurity. I do so knowing that the spirit that shines through the souls of their victims will forever blind them in its light. It is the only light that will ever pierce the deep darkness of their minds and souls.

Compiling Heroes of the Reich has been for me a revelation. The history of European conflict is marked by a willingness to honour one's fallen foe. Today, there is an absence of nobility in the hearts and minds of victors. This then is the opportunity to salute the fallen foe. In doing so I hope to be something of a vanguard in the pursuit of justice and honour. ~ Mike Walsh

CONTENTS

SILESIA

The Sky my Kingdom. Aviator Hanna Reitsch

GERMANY

Gunter Prien. U-Boot Commander Extraordinary

GERMANY

Lale Andersen. The Nightingale of War