A year after the generals finally turned on their Nazis masters the Thousand Year Reich survives, albeit stumbling from one crisis to the next in the absence of the guiding hand of a ‘strong man’ whose whims and psychoses have wrought so much misery since 1933.
Thousands of people died in the putsch, the home SS was purged by the Wehrmacht and ruthlessly bombed by the Luftwaffe, brutally excising the SS, the Gestapo and much of the infrastructure of National Socialist rule from the fabric of the Fatherland Reich. Now the SS is a shadow of its former vainglory, an adjunct to the Armed Services banished to the never-ending war in the East and garrison duty around the crumbling margins of the empire.
Disunity on the home front has manifested itself with troubles all around the uber-sized Nazi empire. The generals have no answer to the catastrophe looming over the Reich, their puppet Fuhrer has turned out to be anything but a puppet and Christina Kramer, Reinhard Heydrich’s daughter, and it now seems ‘princess in wating across the water’ exiled in America, far from being a bit player in the unfolding drama, may actually be at the very nexus of the disintegration of her Father’s evil empire.
An ‘accidental’ Fuhrer, his wife and the Queen of the Reich Broadcasting Service, dissensions among the three members of the Council of Officers whose putsch murdered Heydrich, provoked battles that scarred and in some places, burned out the hearts of a score of German cities and a monstrous scandal that is about to transform the United States into a wary, isolationist party to a thirty year-old Cold War, into the Nazis’ worst nightmare explode across the pages of EXILE, the fourth instalment in the EUROPA REICH SERIES.