The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It
Scott Andrew Selby
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0425252701
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A trusted member of Hitler’s inner circle, Artur Axmann, the head of the Hitler Youth, witnessed the Führer commit 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 Conspiracy is 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.
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Although he knew his former underlings in the HJ and BDM had gathered in the Alps (as he was the one who sent them there), trying to contact them now would have been risky and difficult. He had no money, as the HJ funds he’d tried to take with him out of Berlin had been lost during the breakout. He did own some real estate in Berlin, but he could not claim it since he was in hiding. If things had gone according to plan, though, Heidemann would be busy in Bavaria building up a future for them.
that Hitler used to carry on his person, which they had found unfired near Eva Braun Hitler.58 According to Traudl Junge, Günsche told her that Hitler’s “ashes were collected into a box, which was given to the Reichsjugendführer Axmann.”59 However, Axmann claims that he was never given Hitler’s ashes.60 In 1965, Axmann wrote, “Later on it could be read in the newspaper that they had passed Hitler’s ashes in a metal container to me. This is speculation and not true.”61 As for why Traudl Junge
save him, which is now being produced. We just have to be determined to hold out until this medication can be applied, to achieve final victory. That is what counts, to keep on fighting with an iron will!”12 When a visibly haggard Hitler gave a weak Nazi salute with “Heil Euch” (hail to you) no one responded. Those present had been instructed earlier to respond with “Heil, mein Führer” (hail my leader)—these salute expressions and responses were different now that they involved the actual leader
soldier kept a Tommy gun trained on Axmann while he entered a light tank in the middle of a convoy.14 The CIC was not taking any chances with the former Reichsjugendführer. Overbeck went to the Seventh Army at Heidelberg; Agents Reis and Hochschild escorted him there personally.15 Decades later, Reis remembered this trip well: “Overbeck was silent on the ride to Heidelberg except when Agent George [Hochschild] asked him if he knew who had helped him push his vehicle out of the snow in Allgau.