![]() ![]() Kersten had been sent to Sweden to get its foreign minister, Count Bernadotte, to convince U.S. But as fictional actors, he has them participate in a number of wild shenanigans, as when Manni teaches Speer to juggle and Franzi intones karmic nonsense to Himmler to puff up his already outsized self-esteem and keep him from investigating Franzi’s secret role as a double agent for Russia and Britain.įranzi replaces Himmler’s real-life masseur, Felix Kersten. The Jewish Loerber brothers go underground during the war years, and McNally uses them as flies on the wall, witnessing real historical events. ![]() Walter Bedell Smith and other real players from this period have cameos. Adolf Hitler, German intelligence head Walter Schellenberg, American Gen. The protagonists in “Germania” are Albert Speer, Heinrich Himmler and the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers, who had been the toast of pre-war Berlin with an act combining song, dance, acrobatics and hypnotism. ![]() ![]() This IS an odd but largely engrossing hybrid of a book: part accurately reconstructed historical fiction, part comic romp as literary version of “Springtime for Hitler.” It is the spring of 1945 and the Third Reich’s endgame. ![]()
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