Tochter des Reichs (Daughter of the Empire)

Chapter Twenty-Five Spoils Berlin July 1945   In this chapter, the British assume control of their sector and throw a victory parade, with Churchill and members of his cabinet visiting. We learn of Brian Fortescue's war experience. The girls work on collecting data for British Intelligence, while in Prague, Sophie, Fritz, and family are treated as the Jews were in the Reich, and are sent to a concentration camp at Karlsbad; they discover that Ernst has been sent to a Russian labour camp. Sepp is at Augsberg with Ursula who is helping him write up his account of the war, and has long interrogations with various individuals, who regard him as either pathetic or disingenuous. He is moved to Wiesbaden, and the Americans are intent on finding out just what happened at Malmédy. Sepp, as Himmler had, warns the Allies of the Russians.With the help of de Gaulle, Otto returns to Austria, and finds that his father's enemies are still causing him trouble. He writes to Truman and Chur...

Chapter Three Aunt Sophie Freyung Square,Vienna Thursday 15 May 1930   In this chapter, we meet Bekka and Otto's cousin  Sophie Hohenberg, her husband Fritz Nostitz-Rieneck, and their children Erwein, Franz, Alois, and Sophie in their home in Vienna's First District, and discover the family plan for Bekka. The family and servants' instinctual respect for Otto as Emperor-in-Exile, as well as the familial piety are explored. We learn about the family's connections to the Jesuit Order, and the dangers facing Bekka's mother and other Germanic people in Tyrol from Mussolini's fascist govermnet. We explore the origins of Nazism and meet the major players in the Axis and an alternative possibility for Fürher: Adolf Hitler, Sepp Dietrich, Heinrich Himmler,  Walther Nauhaus, and  Rudolf von Sebottendorff.   Sophie and Fritz, Her parents, brothers, and Sophie with her Mamma:  Freyung Square in Vienna:    The Akademisches Gymnasium:  Hitler as a t...