In his new novel, Frank Sanello vividly recreates the Third Reich
and World War II as seen through the eyes and daily diary of
Hitler's imaginary wife, Countess Christina Bernadotte (1916-1948).
The granddaughter of the king of Sweden, the countess is forced at
the age of 16 to marry the 43-year-old Nazi dictator by her
socially ambitious and abusive mother, an heiress to the Vanderbilt
fortune. Her husband, strung out on morphine and cocaine, makes
revolting sexual demands on his virginal wife involving
coprophilia, a fetish that eroticizes feces. Lonely and isolated,
Frau Hitler throws herself into a series of transient love affairs
with the Third Reich's handsome foreign minister, the corrupt
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Cary Grant, and Ernst Rohm, leader of the
SA (Storm Troopers). Because of her many romantic liaisons, she
doesn't know the identity of the father of her son, Folke, except
that he's not her husband's. As the Holocaust claims more victims,
Christina begins smuggling Jews out of Germany right under her
drug-addled husband's nose. During the war, she travels to
Auschwitz to rescue Jewish friends and bribes the Gestapo to allow
other Jews to flee Nazi Germany. With her uncle, Count Folke
Bernadotte, she helps organize the White Buses operation, a
dangerous mission that transports 30,000 Jews and POWs to safety in
Sweden aboard Red Cross buses painted white to avoid bombing the
Allies or the Luftwaffe. As First Lady of the Reich, she meets or
corresponds with various historical figures such as Sigmund Freud,
Pope Pius XII and MGM chief Louis B. Mayer. Toward the end of the
war, as she tries to flee home to Sweden with her son and adopted
daughter, her arch-nemesis, Hermann Goring, Hitler's second in
command and pedophile, forces her to choose one of her children to
leave behind with him. The choice haunts the countess until tragedy
intervenes during her work as UN mediator between warring
Palestinian Jews and Arabs in 1948. These dramatic events are
recorded in her daily diary, which her grandson finds hidden in a
Holocaust memorial library and publishes as "The Autobiography of
Frau Adolf Hitler."
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2012 |
First published: |
June 2012 |
Authors: |
Frank Sanello
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
252 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4775-8172-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-4775-8172-3 |
Barcode: |
9781477581728 |
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