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Hitler's holy relics a true story of nazi plunder and the race to recover the crown jewels of the holy roman empire

"A True story of Nazi plunder and the race to recover the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire". Stolen from Austria during World War II by Hitler's agents, the relics were hidden after his death by his supporters, to be kept as symbols when a Fourth Reich came into power. An American art historian-turned-Army-sleuth was assigned the task of finding them before this could happen.

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  • ""A True story of Nazi plunder and the race to recover the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire". Stolen from Austria during World War II by Hitler's agents, the relics were hidden after his death by his supporters, to be kept as symbols when a Fourth Reich came into power. An American art historian-turned-Army-sleuth was assigned the task of finding them before this could happen."@en
  • "From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasures they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. In Hitler's Holy Relics, bestselling author Sidney Kirkpatrick tells the riveting and never-before-told true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich. Anticipating the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany, ReichsfUhrer Heinrich Himmler had ordered a top-secret bunker carved deep into the bedrock beneath NUrnberg castle. Inside the well-guarded chamber was a specially constructed vault that held the plundered treasures Hitler valued the most: the Spear of Destiny (reputed to have been used to pierce Christ's side while he was on the cross) and the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, ancient artifacts steeped in medieval mysticism and coveted by world rulers from Charlemagne to Napoleon. But as Allied bombers rained devastation upon NUrnberg and the U.S. Seventh Army prepared to invade the city Hitler called "the soul of the Nazi Party," five of the most precious relics, all central to the coronation ceremony of a would-be Holy Roman Emperor, vanished from the vault. Who took them' And why' The mystery remained unsolved for months after the war's end, until the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, ordered Lieutenant Walter Horn, a German-born art historian on leave from U.C. Berkeley, to hunt down the missing treasures. To accomplish his mission, Horn must revisit the now-rubble-strewn landscape of his youth and delve into the ancient legends and arcane mysticism surrounding the antiquities that Hitler had looted in his quest for world domination. Horn searches for clues in the burnt remains of Himmler's private castle and follows the trail of neo-Nazi "Teutonic Knights" charged with protecting a vast hidden fortune in plundered gold and other treasure. Along the way, Horn has to confront his own demons: how members of his family and former academic colleagues subverted scholarly research to help legitimize Hitler's theories of Aryan supremacy and the Master Race. What Horn discovers on his investigative odyssey is so explosive that his final report will remain secret for decades. Drawing on unpublished interrogation and intelligence reports, as well as on diaries, letters, journals, and interviews in the United Statesand Germany, Kirkpatrick tells this riveting and disturbing story with cinematic detail and reveals' for the first time'how a failed Vienna art student, obsessed with the occult and dreams of his own grandeur, nearly succeeded in creating a Holy Reich rooted in a twisted reinvention of medieval and Church history."@en
  • "Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich."@en
  • "Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Literatura faktu"
  • "Non-fiction"
  • "Art"@en
  • "Art"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"

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  • "Hitler's holy relics a true story of Nazi plunder and the race to recover the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire"
  • "Hitler's holy relics a true story of nazi plunder and the race to recover the crown jewels of the holy roman empire"@en
  • "Hitler's holy relics"@en
  • "Xitele de jue mi bao cang : zui zong Nacui cang ni cheng di sheng wu ji shi"
  • "希特勒的绝密宝藏 : 追踪纳粹藏匿称帝圣物纪实"
  • "Hitler's holy relics : a true story of Nazi plunder and the race to recover the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire"@en
  • "Hitler's holy relics : a true story of Nazi plunder and the race to recover the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire"
  • "Hitlerovy svaté relikvie : pravdivý příběh o záchraně korunovačních klenotů Svaté říše římské, uchvácených za druhé světové války nacisty"

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