Bringing History to Life Collections

Bringing History to Life Collector’s Edition’ is a 180 page must read special issue packed with in depth WW2 historical information narrated as a story and illustrated with informative graphs and timelines. Readers interested in WW2 will not be disappointed.

Nazi myths: fact or fiction?

WHAT HAPPENED TO HITLER? • On 1st May, 1945, Germany officially declared that Hitler was dead. Shortly afterwards, his earthly remains were consumed by fire, but speculation has remained ever since that the Nazi leader did not die at all, but rather fled Germany to safety in the last few hours of the war.

200,000 BRITONS ESCAPE THE GERMAN ARMY • A large German armoured force pursues 200,000 desperate British soldiers as they flee to Dunkirk on the French coast. The Wehrmacht is a few kilometres from the city and preparing for a crushing attack when Hitler suddenly changes his mind and halts the German advance.

HIMMLER’S OCCULT WORLD • Since World War II, rumours have spread about SS leader Heinrich Himmler’s obsession with the occult. Himmler was preoccupied with the idea of creating an SS cult and ordered the Reich’s scientists to the most remote corners of the world in search of the Aryans and the origin of the German people.

THE PATH TO POWER • Seduced by propaganda, violence and glittering promises, the Germans elected Hitler into power and gave him a mandate to change the world. How an entire nation could have fallen for his charms is still a wonder, but the reasons lie in the economic crisis and a longing for German grandeur.

KILL HITLER! • In June 1944 the British capture one of Hitler’s bodyguards. He reveals that the Führer likes to walk each morning alone along the same route near his villa in the South German Alps. The Brits see an opportunity to kill Hitler and end the war.

HUNT FOR THE GOLD TRAIN • In 1944, a train rolls out from a station in Budapest bound for the Alps. Its carriages carry huge amounts of gold and diamonds stolen from the Hungarian Jews who were sent to the extermination camps. Neither the train nor its valuable content ever reach their destination.

RUDOLF HESS FLIES TO THE ENEMY • In May 1941 a German Messerschmitt aircraft flies towards Scotland. At the joystick sits high-ranking Nazi Rudolf Hess, who is searching for Dungavel House. But when the plane runs out of fuel, Hess opens the cockpit and parachutes into enemy territory.

HITLER’S FATAL DECISIONS • Hitler’s judgement became progressively worse during the war. One possible explanation for his increasingly odd decisions was an escalating use of medication. Originally intended to ease stomach cramps and eczema, the cocktail of drugs grew to include cocaine and sleeping pills.

SOVIET DICTATOR TURNS A BLIND EYE • Joseph Stalin is in shock, and the Red Army are totally unprepared when German troops roll into the Soviet Union in the early morning of 22nd June, 1941. Despite warnings from agents, border guards and officers of an imminent Nazi attack, the Soviet dictator has chosen to ignore all information about Hitler’s invasion plans.

GERMAN SECRET WEAPONS • Nazi engineers worked secretly on developing aircraft, rockets and other weapons that were ahead of their time. The secret projects were designed to change the fortunes of war, and one could have done so: a nuclear bomb. Today, no one knows how close the Germans came to having atomic weapons.

FEW KNEW THE PERSON BEHIND THE FÜHRER • From the Nazi party’s foundation in 1920, Adolf Hitler was aware of how the public saw him. Photographer Heinrich Hoffmann created the image of Hitler as a strong but lonely man, loved by the German people. Few got close to Hitler, and all were loyal. No gossip escaped the Führer’s chambers.

KZ PRISONER SPIES FOR THE NAZIS • Dachau concentration camp prisoner number 26,336 gets an offer:...