Swastika (37 page)

This is a work of fiction. The plot and the characters are products of the author’s imagination. Where real persons, places, incidents, institutions, and such have been incorporated to create the illusion of authenticity, they are used fictitiously. Inspiration was drawn from the following nonfiction sources:

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Translated by Yves Béon and Richard L. Fague. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

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The Philadelphia Experiment.
London: Souvenir Press, 1979.

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The Roswell Incident.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1980.

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London: Michael Joseph, 1987.

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The Valor and the Horror.
Directed by Brian McKenna. Toronto: National Film Board of Canada, 1992.

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The V-2 was called the A-4 until it was renamed the Vengeance Weapon 2 and began to be used against Britain in retaliation for nighttime raids against the Reich by RAF Bomber Command. To avoid confusion, only the term V-2 is used in the novel.

For those of you interested in delving into the truth that inspired this fiction, I recommend several books. O’Donnell’s
The Bunker
captures the madhouse atmosphere of Hitler’s last days underground in Berlin. The author was there in 1945, and he also interviewed those who endured that experience. A stiff drink is advisable before you sink into Michel’s
Dora
and Béon’s
Planet Dora,
two hellish memoirs about what went on in the V-2 production tunnels at Work Camp Dora, both written by prisoners of war. Although SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst Streicher and his sons are fictional, that nonexistent Nazi engineer is based on a real-life monster in Hitler’s Reich: SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler. In
The Rocket and the Reich,
Neufeld, a curator of Second World War history at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, details the involvement of Kammler and Wernher von Braun in building the V-2 and explains what happened when the Pentagon moved in at the close of the war. Finally, to answer the question that tormented Jean Michel for decades—what became of Hans Kammler after the fall of the Third Reich?—you definitely want to read Cook’s
The Hunt for Zero Point.
Written by the aviation editor of
Jane’s Defence Weekly,
the world’s top journal of military affairs, it’s a work that would impress Sherlock Holmes.

Hans Kammler? Work Camp Dora? The Mittelwerk?

Never heard of them?

I wonder why.

Slade

Vancouver, BC