Hitler's Basement (eBook)

My Search For Truth, Light, And The Forgotten Executioners Of Ukraine's Kingdom Of Death

Ron Vossler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
386 Seiten
Green Ivy (Verlag)
978-1-944680-35-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Who murdered tens of thousands of Odessa's Jews in World War II? How was this terrible secret kept hidden for over three quarters of a century? And what connects those questions to a small town on the North Dakota prairie? Hitler's Basement provides the answers, as well as offering startling new perspectives on the Holocaust in an isolated region of Ukraine that Hitler called Transnistria. Part detective story, part redemptive quest, Hitler's Basement carries the reader deep into an ethnic labyrinth of guilt and memory to discover links between Soviet terror in the 1930s and the Holocaust in Transnistria, and how relatives of a German-speaking minority who didn't immigrate to the prairie became cogs in the Nazi machinery of death. In a shocking twist, the author traces one of the shadowy executioners to America, to his own Dakota hometownand, finally, to the edges of his very own family.

Inhalt

Author's NoteVii
Map of the Kingdom of Death XXI
I. Into The Labyrinth
Overture 1
Loomings2
Our Savior, The SS Officer7
Lost Worlds 12
The Hitler Surveillance Club16
Rivers Of Blood20
The Map44
II. First Notes From The Road Of Death
Odessa, My Rome49
Berezovka58
We, The Water; You, The Fists 60
Our Babi Yar63
Lichtenfeld, The First Time68
Ashes71
Aftershocks78
Fire And Ice79
Iii. Dispatches From The Road Of Death
At The Horse Stables87
Burning Ice89
The Castle99
Wheelbarrows105
"Who Will Take This Girl?"126
To The Sea134
Rain143
Wesseloe150
Smoke155
Dirt161
Ghosts Of Transnistria165
Square Footage179
Masters Of Death 183
The Waves Swallow193
Mayors213
With The Tourists226
Kartakei232
Kolosofka239
Return To Lichtenfeld; Return Home254
A Disturbing Conversation 277
Shooting Graves285
Back To My Old Life, Almost288
Iv. Finding Hitler's Steppe-Children
I Visit A Former Policeman293
I Make Enemies301
Out Of The Flames313
Dreck316
In Hitler's Basement323
Coercion And Hatred358
Acknowledgments369
Sources371

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: detective story • Fiction • Odessa's Jews • part redemptive quest • startling new perspectives on the Holocaust • traces one of the shadowy executioners • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-944680-35-7 / 1944680357
• ISBN-13: 978-1-944680-35-0 / 9781944680350