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Heroes of the Reich HEROES OF THE REICH ADOLF HITLER The Only Democratically Elected Leader of World War Two PUBLISHING REAL HISTORY Mike Walsh BIOGRAPHY MIKE WALSH Mike Walsh is a veteran journalist, broadcaster and historian. A fugitive from renegade Europeans, leftists, palace journalists, he has shrugged off their wrath over 50 years of writing. His Irish-American father, Patrick had fought in four conflicts by the time he reached 40-years of age: The Irish peoples guerrilla war against the British Army‟s Black and Tans. These armed irregulars, dredged from England‟s prisons, were notorious for their viciousness. The Irish War of Independence and on to fight in the most ferocious hand-to-hand battles during the Spanish Civil War. Whilst on the frontlines he was a close associate of American war correspondent, Ernest Hemingway. Mike‟s father formed an enduring friendship with Ireland‟s celebrated playwright, Sean O‟Casey. Eventually his father served in the Royal Air Force during World War Two as an aircraft fitter / flier. Kathleen, Mike‟s well- educated mother also mentored his writing skills. A former novice nun she was a corresponding friend of Spain's Civil War revolutionary La Pasionaria. From the age of 26 the world-travelling Mike was consumed by a passion for truth and justice. Inevitably, this led him to the potpourri of lies, infamies, cover-ups and crimes committed by the Allies that militarily defeated the Workers Reich. By doing so they ensured the spread of Bolshevism, denial of freedom to nearly a score of Central European nations, the dismembering of the British Empire, and surrender to American imperialism. The Allied victory ensured that Bolshevism would fester for a further 45 years; this they call victory. Through the base stupidity and race treachery the armed forces of the victors‟ empires destroyed the one revolution that alone could have ensured the preservation of European culture and values. Today, their dance of victory is the dance of death on their own funeral pyres. ~ EDITORIAL FURTHER READING Mike Walsh „truth bomb‟ book titles and his poetry and general interest titles can be viewed at the end. Access all books and websites by visiting www.renegadetribune.com 1 DEDICATIONS To Patrick my father with whom I disagreed to a point of estrangement I belatedly realise that he wanted a better world too. He did it in the way he thought right at the time; bravo. To my dear mother Kathleen for encouraging my love of literature and writing. To my apolitical wife Nadia who tolerates me. Last but not least I express patriarchal love and regards to our sons, Craig, Michael and Nikita. FOREWORD Researching Heroes of the Reich was for me uplifting. I know what a depressing thing it is to write on topics relating to the conflicts of the 20th Century. Two world wars, the scourge of Communism and since, the rapacious ferocity of Wall Street and the NATO West dismembered and disembowelled Europe. An estimated 100 million Europeans lost their lives. The White peoples of the world are now very much a minority, thanks to these repeated acts of genocide and brother wars. Tens of millions more Europeans suffered disease, starvation, they laboured and died under police states and regimes, millions were deported. Add to this the post-war European Diaspora of tens of millions fleeing the ravages of pinstripe suited Bolsheviks of Wall Street and their well-financed cloth-capped mercenaries, the Bolsheviks of Occupied Russia. 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 towards fellow human beings. Of palace journalists and their editors, documentary makers and establishment historians, what can be said? Forensic posterity will find much human blood on their hands. These are the poison pen scribes of the elite, the dark forces who profit from war. Lurking in their editorial lairs, these hate-filled presstitutes set out blueprints for war. Dwarfish editors condition people to kill people on behalf of their masters who profit from wars. Their infamies are etched into posterity. There is a ray of hope. Conflict also reveals humanity at its most noble, heroic and selflessness. These are candles that light up all battlefields and bring hope to all wars. I join others who adhere to the most noble of centuries old European principles of valour in war. I salute our foes, I applaud their heroism, I understand their loyalties, I am filled with remorse for their suffering, and I ask their forgiveness. I am quite certain that, through Heroes of The Reich, I can demonstrate respect on behalf of millions repulsed by the post-war denigration of our former combatants. I salute the last gladiators of Europe, peoples of heroic epic. Germany, a nation smaller in size than Texas, assisted by a handful of allies, fought heroically against the overwhelming odds of the combined British, American and Bolshevik – Zionist Empires. What a price they paid for their revolution against the four-headed hydra. Today, their inspiration is the incendiary for the flames from which the phoenix rises. ~ Mike Walsh. 2 CONTENTS SILESIA The Sky my Kingdom. Aviator Hanna Reitsch GERMANY Gunter Prien. U-Boot Commander Extraordinary GERMANY Lale Andersen. The Nightingale of War GERMANY Clemens Forell. Epic Escapes. As Far as my Feet will Carry Me SWITZERLAND Baron Franz von Werra. The One That Got Away AUSTRIA Walter Nowotny. Air Ace among Air Aces GERMANY Arno Breker ‘He is up in the Horse’s Left Ear’ ENGLAND / GERMANY The English Woman who won the Führer’s Heart U.S / GERMANY The Charlie Brown and Fritz Stigler Story GERMANY Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. Faithful to the End GERMANY NORBERT SCHULTZE The Man who Made Lili Marlene GERMANY SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny. Springing the Italian Leader GERMANY Did a Battleship's Loss Save Thousands of German Sailors Lives BELGIUM Leon Degrelle. The Man Hitler Wished for a Son 3 AUSTRIA / GERMANY Paul Hitler's Last Statement in Homage to her Brother THE NETHERLANDS Florentine Van Tonningen ESTONIA Alfred Rosenberg Reich Minister for Occupied Territories RUSSIA Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg's Russian Heroes LIECHTENSTEIN The Smallest Country with the Biggest Heart THE WORLD BEHIND HITLER German and Non-German Volunteers The Ghosts of the Waffen-SS SPAIN The Spanish Waffen-SS GERMANY Rudolf Höss. The Hero Who Defied British Torture GERMANY The Real Heroes. Victims of the Allied Bombing Holocaust FRANCE The Last Defenders of Berlin’s Chancellery GERMANY German Heroism under British Occupation BRITAIN / GERMANY Doctor Death and the Hanging of Heroes BRITAIN Only Cowards Hang Heroes AUSTRIA Herbert von Karajan. The Unrepentant National Socialist 4 GERMANY Heroes Salute Heroes GERMANY Werner von Braun PROPHETIC WORDS Prophecies That Today Come True BEFORE BEING HANGED DEAD MEN’S PROPHECIES RIP U.S. / BRITAIN OBITUARY Winston Churchill 5 HEROES OF THE REICH SILESIA THE SKY MY KINGDOM AVIATOR HANNA REITSCH 29 March 1912 – 14 August 1979 „When asked why she had left the Fuhrer bunker Hanna Reitsch replied: “It was the blackest day when we could not die at our führer‟s side.” She added with high spirit, “We should all kneel down in reverence and prayer before the altar of the Fatherland.” When asked to explain better what she meant by „altar‟ she replied: “Why, Why, the Führer‟s bunker in Berlin.” Hanna's ophthalmologist father wanted her to be a doctor; her mother was a devout Christian who wrote daily to her daughter throughout her life. Hanna‟s ambition was to become a flying missionary doctor attending to the needs of the world‟s unfortunates. As a twenty-year old medical student she had her first experience of flying. From there on it was for her cricket board‟s scores of firsts in advances in world aviation. Hanna was one of the first to cross the Alps in a glider. Born 1912 Hanna Reitsch was to become a legend in many fields of aviation and won international acclaim throughout her pioneering career. The world‟s first female test and helicopter pilot she added weight to the debate over woman‟s role in the Third Reich. Certainly women were given free rein to advance their careers in the Reich than in any other country. As a test pilot, a job in which longevity is more likely to be shortevity, the pilot flew every type of aircraft produced by Hitler‟s Germany. She was the only woman to be 6 awarded the Iron Cross First-Class and Luftwaffe Diamond Clasp. Only one other woman was ever to be awarded the coveted Iron Cross First-class. Reitsch set over 40 aviation altitude and endurance records after World War Two. Many of them remain unbroken. She is truly a woman who has been to where no other man or woman has ever before been. Hanna Reitsch was almost certainly the last flier to soar over her war-shattered Berlin. It was this Silesia pilot who enthralled her world‟s admirers when she flew the word‟s first helicopter. This feat occurred inside Berlin‟s Deutschlandhale in February 1938. The aircraft that world-changing day was an FW-61, a small biplane fuselage with two outriggers supporting the contra-rotating rotors. She later recounted: “Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields.
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