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The Bismarck Memorandum
The Bismarck Memorandum
The Bismarck Memorandum
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Two German familiesone corrupt and Aryan, while the other honorable and Jewishform an unlikely and convoluted relationship spanning three generations. Then in June of 1944 comes the inevitable final reckoning.

In the waning days of Nazi Germany, two larcenous conspiracies collide tragically in a forgotten backwater of war-ravaged Germany, both plans sabotaged by their lone common participant. Four people die, and four others simply disappear without a trace, though clearly not together. Also missing is a fortune in Nazi gold and artwork.

The obscure incident generates a cryptic memo, which finds its way into the highest echelons of the Third Reich. Then the Reich falls, the incident, the treasure, and the memo all disappearing into history.

In July 1970, a quarter-century later, the memo resurfaces. And the killings begin again. Drawn unsuspecting into the carnage, the descendants know only that they must unravel the puzzle before one of them becomes the next victim.

But the trail is cold and the search frustrating, each new revelation taking them further back in history and deeper into the bizarre world of the Third Reich. And looming before them is the danger zone, a fanatic cabal of SS survivors determined to find the answers first.

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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMay 17, 2016
ISBN9781524605810
The Bismarck Memorandum
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A. E. Degnan

The author spent forty-one years in government service, including twenty-two years of active military service as a communications engineer. In addition to seven years as a technical writer and lecturer for the headquarters of United States Army Europe, he has written instructed technical material at several US Army training centers and has lectured military students on oral and written communications skills for two major colleges. His interest in German military history, particularly World Wars I and World War II and the Nazi era, began with his first assignment to that country in 1972. He has since devoted much of his spare time to studying the causes and effects of German militarism in the twentieth century, visiting many of its infamous sites and venues and assembling a diverse personal library of books and materials on the subject. In recent years, he has shifted his focus to the interaction between Jewish and non-Jewish populations in Germany as affected by the emergence of anti-Semitism during the Third Reich. He resides today in a small town in Germany with his German-born wife, herself the daughter of a WWII German soldier and POW. Surrounded by the echoes of those tragic years, he spends his time writing, researching, and connecting the dots to further illuminate that bizarre and unforgettable period in history.

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