Darkness into Light by Michael Dean (1-5)
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Overview: The Darkness into Light series of five novels has as its background the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Nazis, from the assassination of Jewish Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau in 1922, to Germany’s overcoming of its Nazi past while facing fresh threats from East Germany and the Baader-Meinhof gang in 1971.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Before the Darkness
Germany 1922. ‘The Circle of Hate’ is closing in on Walther Rathenau, the Jewish Foreign Minister.
As a Jewish, homosexual industrialist, politician and avid painter, Walther is being hounded from all sides, scapegoated by his own countrymen.
‘The Circle of Hate’, made up of anti-Jewish Ludendorff, Stinnes and Helfferich, refuse to let Rathenau ruin their own political aspirations.
They plan to make headlines and with the radical, assassination obsessed Von Salomon leading the charge, Rathenau’s life is in danger.
Brutally betrayed by those closest to him, his lover Hartmut Plaas and his servant Josef Prozeller, this is a story of passion, principles and deceit, where hatred is closing in on all sides.
The Crooked Cross
Munich in 1933, the year of Hitler’s rise to power, saw a last-ditch fight by German democracy and the beginning of the Nazi attempt to destroy the soul of mankind. In the front line were the German Expressionist painters, who painted from the soul and were therefore declared ‘degenerate’.
Against this background, the novel traces the journey of Gerhard Glaser, art lover and lawyer. Glaser was Public Prosecutor in the case of Geli Raubal, Hitler’s niece and, Glaser believes, his first murder victim.
The Enemy Within
1941. Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter.
More than four hundred young Jewish men have been taken hostage in revenge for the death of a German policeman.
The Jewish resistance group – the knokploegen – is fighting back and the Christian population has gone on strike in their defence.
And Hans-Max Hirschfeld will have to make a fatal choice. As the Dutch Secretary General for Trade and Industry he is working closely with the Germans, but as a Jew he is also trying his best to help the civilian population.
But with brother pitted against brother, and man spying on man, how can Hirschfeld stop the resistance without being branded a traitor himself?
Hour Zero
Germany, 1945. At the end of the war, Captain John Hodge is getting ready to be de-mobbed.
That is until he is given a new assignment on a War Crimes Unit, working to track down works of art the Nazis have looted and hidden.
Briefed by his new CO, Lieutenant Colonel Palfrey, Hodge travels to Ludswigburg, where the paintings are known to have been transported by Karl Wagner, Hitler’s former bodyguard.
At the American army camp he meets Captain John Lindsey, who has the job of de-Nazifying the area, rebuilding damaged towns and reorganising the community following the destruction of the second world war.
Lindsey has little interest in Hodge’s mission, until he realises it is linked to a group of Nazi sympathisers who are still active – called the Werwolf group.
And one of the key leaders is Karl Wagner.
Magic City
A new land and a new life. That’s all that Marcus Himmelfahrt wants.
It’s 1971. Himmelfahrt is running away from his demons – his Jewish heritage being one of them, his problems with women, another. Eager to break free, he changes his name and travels to Ludwigsburg, West Germany, to teach English at a language school. But a new identity saddles him with more problems than the last.
Himmelfahrt is nevertheless a hit at the language school and fast establishes a reputation as a ladies’ man. Meanwhile, he rapidly becomes a wanted man locally, nationally, even internationally…
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