This is how it started. It was Friday afternoon –…
Prologue
Winter entered the prison cell unprepared for the change that…
1899
‘A whole new century’
1900
A plot of land on the Obersalzberg
1906
‘The sort of thing they’re told at school’
1908
‘Conqueror of the air – hurrah!’
1910
The end of Valhalla
1914
War with Russia
1916
‘What kind of dopes are they to keep coming that way?’
1917
‘Not so loud, voices carry in the night’
1918
‘The war is won, isn’t it?’
1922
‘Berlin is so far away and I miss you so much’
1924
‘Who are those dreadful men?’
1925
‘You don’t have to be a mathematician’
1927
‘That’s all they ask in return’
1929
‘There is nothing safer than a zeppelin’
1930
A family Christmas
1932
‘Was that more shouting in the street?’
1933
‘We think something is definitely brewing over there’
1934
‘Gesundheit!’
1936
‘Rinse and spit out’
1937
‘You know what these old cops are like’
1938
‘Being innocent is no defence’
1939
‘Moscow?’ said Pauli
1940
The sound stage
1941