Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    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
    Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire
    Audiobook10 hours

    Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire

    Written by Sidney Kirkpatrick

    Narrated by Charles Stransky

    3.5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    Had Hitler succeeded in conquering Europe, he would have crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor. The Nazis had in their possession priceless artifacts that would give Hitler legitimacy in his subjects' eyes: the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire including the Spear of Destiny, alleged to have pierced Christ's side at the Crucifixion. Looted from the royal treasury in Vienna, Austria, the Crown Jewels were hidden in a secret bunker deep beneath Nürnberg castle, known to few but Heinrich Himmler, his staff-and a captured German soldier whose family lived above it. As luck would have it, the officer in charge of interrogating the soldier was First Lieutenant Walter Horn, art history professor. Following his report to General Patton, Horn would be assigned to recover this ancient treasure. Would he find it before covert Nazi agents could use it to revive the defeated regime? Based on recently discovered and previously unpublished documents and interviews with all remaining living participants, this is a tale that surpasses fiction: part thriller, part detective story, all true.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMay 11, 2010
    ISBN9781615730445
    Author

    Sidney Kirkpatrick

    Sidney Kirkpatrick is an award-winning filmmaker and international bestselling author. His critically acclaimed non-fiction books include A Cast of Killers, Turning the Tide, Lords of Sipan, Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet, and The Revenge of Thomas Eakins. His documentary film, My Father the President, about Theodore Roosevelt as seen through the eyes of his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, was a winner at the American Film Festival. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and A&E have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time, The New Yorker, and Playboy. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Stony Brook, New York.

    Related to Hitler's Holy Relics

    Related audiobooks

    European History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Man Who Started The War

      Dec 4, 2018

      The Man Who Started The War
      11 min read

    • Article

      What Kind of Nazi Was He?

      May 22, 2023

      What Kind of Nazi Was He?
      11 min read

    • Article

      Translating Evil

      Feb 21, 2019

      Translating Evil
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Last Days Of Hitler

      Jan 2, 2020

      The Last Days Of Hitler
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Bitter End

      Sep 29, 2022

      The Bitter End
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Moral Blindness Of Putin’s Generals

      Apr 28, 2022

      ONE PARALLEL BETWEEN the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the conduct of the Second World War that has hitherto escaped notice concerns the relationship between the dictator and his generals. Just as the German General Staff obeyed Hitler’s orders, ev

      5 min read

    • Article

      Some Wars Are Just

      Nov 24, 2022

      Some Wars Are Just
      6 min read

    • Article

      Agent A12

      Oct 26, 2023

      Agent A12
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Truth About Rudolf Hess

      Dec 27, 2018

      Author: James Douglas-Hamilton Publisher: Frontline Books Price: £19.99 Early on the morning of 11 May 1941, Adolf Hitler was having one of his habitual tantrums. Rudolf Hess’s adjutant Karl-Heinz Pintsch had arrived at the Berchtesgaden, the führer

      2 min read

    • Article

      Becoming The Desert Fox

      Jan 9, 2024

      Becoming The Desert Fox
      11 min read

    • Article

      Blue Bloods And Brownshirts

      Apr 29, 2021

      THE GERMAN ARISTOCRACY entered the twentieth century in several shapes and sizes. A whole slew of monarchs, grand dukes, mediatised princes and landgraves had survived Bismarck’s unification of the country. Prussian Protestant aristocrats remained lo

      5 min read

    • Article

      France In The Dock

      Aug 3, 2023

      France In The Dock
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Paradox Of Nazi Culture

      Nov 26, 2020

      HERMAN GOERING is famous for supposedly having said, “When I hear the word ‘culture’, I reach for my revolver.” In fact, the quote originated elsewhere. It would have been surprising if the case were otherwise, since the Nazis, being Germans, could h

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Roots Of German Militarism

      Sep 29, 2022

      The Roots Of German Militarism
      5 min read

    • Article

      Justice Denied?

      Feb 4, 2020

      Justice Denied?
      15 min read

    • Article

      Battle For The Skies

      Dec 4, 2018

      Battle For The Skies
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Sunny Depiction Of Dark Times

      Sep 28, 2023

      A Sunny Depiction Of Dark Times
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Soldier Betrayed

      Jul 11, 2023

      A Soldier Betrayed
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Inevitable Peace

      Mar 26, 2020

      The Inevitable Peace
      5 min read

    • Article

      Hitler’s Assassins

      Jul 11, 2019

      Hitler’s Assassins
      9 min read

    • Article

      Forgotten Films

      Nov 25, 2021

      ONE OF THE MANY JOYS of our new streaming universe, where years’ worth of content can be instantly accessed, is digging around in the more obscure corners of Netflix and Amazon Prime. For those with the patience to read subtitles, there is a cornucop

      3 min read

    • Article

      Blood Brothers

      Jan 1, 2019

      Blood Brothers
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Hitler's Holy Relics

    3.5/5

    33 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      I've never read Dan Brown but I'm guessing that "Hitler's Holy Relics" is the type of book he'll read before knocking off another best selling tome. "Hitler's Holy Relics" covers the end of World War II when a team of allied officials led by scholar Walter Horn began searching for relics stolen by the Nazis, they realise that some relics were hidden so the upcoming Fourth Reich could use them. Some good detective work later, (Spoiler) we can rest assured that any Fourth Reich would need to come to fruition without Charlemagne's Imperial Regalia.A well-written piece on one of the lesser known moments of World War II.
    • 4/5
      If you crossed the Da Vinci Code with real life Nazi conspiracies, you'd get a story like this.A look at the history of the traditions that Hitler and his men claimed to succeed, told through the personal story and investigations of one U.S.-German army lieutenant who was an expert in German art history.