The Axmann Conspiracy The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It

by Selby, Scott Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780425252703
• ISBN10: 0425252701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-04
• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover

Summary

A trusted member of Hitler's inner circle, Artur Axmann, the head of the Hitler Youth, witnessed the Führercommit suicide in Berlin-but he would not let the Reich die with its leader. Evading capture, and with access to remnants of the regime's wealth, Axmann had enough followers to reestablish the Nazi party in the very heart of Allied-occupied Germany-and position himself to become dictator of the Fourth Reich. U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps Officer Jack Hunter was the perfect undercover operative. Fluent in German, he posed as a black marketeer to root out Nazi sympathizers and saboteurs after the war, and along with other CIC agents uncovered the extent of Axmann's conspiracy. It threatened to bring the Nazis back into power-and the task fell to Hunter and his team to stop it. The Axmann Conspiracyis the previously untold true story of the Nazi threat that continued in the wake of World War II, the espionage that defeated it, and two fascinating men whose lives forever altered the course of history. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS

Author Biography

Scott Andrew Selby is the co-author of Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History. He has a law degree from Harvard Law School and a Masters degree in Human Rights and Intellectual Property from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at Sweden’s Lund University, as well as a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies/Theories of American Culture from UC Berkeley. 

Table of Contents

Map of Axmann's Breakout from the Bunker	p. xi
Chronology of Background Events	p. xiii
Dramatis Personae	p. xvii
Prologue: Hitler's Bunker	p. 1
Breakout	p. 13
Joining the CIC	p. 43
Death Throes of the Third Reich	p. 54
Zero Hour	p. 73
The Informant	p. 85
Operation Nursery	p. 103
The First Arrests	p. 117
Life in Occupied Germany	p. 135
Upper and Lower Bavarian Groups	p. 147
Face-to-Face	p. 160
Expansion	p. 174
The Setup	p. 188
Capture	p. 204
The Roundup	p. 212
Epilogue	p. 230
Acknowledgments	p. 241
For Further Reading	p. 243
Abbreviations	p. 245
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 281
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