Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II

Author: Ian Sayer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine Fortress," where he and the SS would keep the hostages as they made a last stand against the Allies. The prisoners included European presidents, prime ministers, generals, British secret agents, and German anti-Nazi clerics, celebrities, and officers who had aided the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler--and...Read more