Oliver Marti

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Back To Hitler's Germany - Oliver Marti Back to Hitler’s Germany is a novel involving science fiction and a historical mystery. In 1984, J. J. Benitez wrote a novel in which a time machine made by NASA went back to the First Century Jerusalem. Gathered at a meeting of the "Cosmos Society", a group of American scientists were discussing the book when Carl Sagan surprised the others, stating that a machine capable of crossing the time barrier could, indeed, be built. Twenty years later, the secret project, known only by a few people inside the Government, had turned Sagan´s idea into reality. In the Mojave desert the time-ships were built and based: the scientists decided to return to April 1945 Berlin, to find out whether Hitler and Eva Braun had died in the Chancellery bunker or escaped, with the help of the famous aviatrix Hanna Reitsch. The machine, piloted by major Kelvin Martin, drops the American agent Steve Kleist, of German ancestry, near the Reich Chancellery on the evening of April, 26, 1945. Steve, pretending to be major Hans Kleist, from Wench’s Army, enters the bunker and discovers two doubles, one for the Fuhrer and another for Hitler’s mistress. He returns to America, but, despite the existence of the doubles having been confirmed, Hitler's and Eva's destiny remained unclear . It was then decided that Hanna should be interviewed. Steve, this time posing as the journalist Rudolf Kleist, son of major Hans Kleist, goes back to 1965 Salzburg, where the aviatrix, now 49 years old, resides. During the interview Hanna confesses that, with the help of SS general Otto Skorzeny, Air Force General von Greim, Heinz Linge and the spy-master Reinhard Gehlen, she had rescued Hitler and Eva, by air, a few hours before Russian troops reached the Chancellery and that the Fuhrer survived and lived for many years under a false identity at the small Paraguayan town of Juan Pedro Cabalero. But, unexpectedly, "Rudolf" and Hanna fall in love. Nevertheless, Steve returns again to the States and, because of his unexplainable passion for Hanna, he sinks into a deep depressive state. A few weeks later, the US Air Force decides to test another ship, sending it, ten years back, to the North Pole. Kleist succeeds in convincing his friend Kelvin to take him along, secretly, and to drop him in Salzburg, at a time corresponding to a few hours after the moment he had left Hanna’s home on the previous trip. So, Steve disappears mysteriously and all attempts to find him fail. Of course, no one thought about checking the "dead archives" of the Salzburg Nachrichten, where, in the issue of September, 14th, 1965, a note that said: "the aviatrix Hanna Reitsch, accompanied by an unknown American young man, left the city, to spend a long period of vacation at the French Riviera ..." Thus, Steve had exchanged his career and the way of living in twenty-first century America for a love affair in the Europe of the sixties and seventies, even knowing that Hanna was scheduled to die in 1979, fourteen years later. An incredible, amazing and touching passion! An impossible love that love had made possible! (about 54,000 words) Price: £3.50 Quantity:

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