Chapter Thirty-Five - Ich hatte eine böse Vorahnung

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Chapter Thirty-Five
Ich hatte eine böse Vorahnung 
Habsburg, Brugg
April – November 1983
 
In this chapter, a newspaper interview goes horribly wrong, and Bekka is forced to take legal action. This, however, results in a reunion with Brian Fortescue, now a retired Colonel and former deputy head of MI6 in Berlin, and in an unexpected windfall, which benefits the Fount of Life Foundation. Her old bosses at the Gestapo are called as witnesses, with very different results. Brian and Bekka discuss the past, and their families. 
 
Bekka and Helmut:
 
Axel Springer:
Stadthaus Brugg: 
Dr. Ebner:
Dr. Mildner:
Brian:
Bekka and Brian have a conversation:

Nazi career of the South Tyrolean Karl Ebner - Article on Dr. Ebner's book, The Unperson 
Gestapo Seizure of Jewish Property in Austria Document Signed by Dr. Karl Ebner - good discussion of the activities of the Vienna Gestapo and Dr. Ebner's part in it.
Affidavit concerning the deportation of European Jews- Testimony of Dr. Mildner at Nuremberg.
Rat Lines: The Hunt for Nazi War Criminals - Complete Series. By Dr. Mark Felton
Germany's BILD Tabloid Explains Role of Axel Springer in Repairing Relations of Jews and Germans - Posted here with extreme irony. I would not trust anything the Bild tabloid says, escpecially about Springer. 
#17: Die Teenager-Terroristen - True Story- This is much more the Springer Group sort of publication. In German.
The Scandalous History of America’s Newest Media Baron - from Foreign Policy.com. 'The new owner of Politico, Axel Springer, has a decades-long record of bending journalistic ethics for right-wing causes.'


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