Add a message : Helena Schrader - Historian and Novelist There are now 5 messages in our guestbook. Viewing messages 1 to 5. Charles LeMaire | I found your website after an extensive search on the German Resistance. HAve you eve interviewed anyone who directly know Hitler and if so what made him so mad with hate? 18 February 2010 - USA Webmaster comments   Charles, several of the people I knew had met Hitler personally, usually only once or twice in relatively formal settings - inspections, rallies etc. The person I knew well, who had "experienced" Hitler most frequently was Philipp Baron von Boeselager. Boeselager served as Ordonnanzoffizier (ADC) to Generalfeldmarschall von Kluge, who commanded Army Group Center on the Eastern Front from July 1942 to October 1943, and took over command of Germany's forces on the Normandy front ca. July 1, 1944. Boeselager spent roughly one year with Kluge and among his duties was listening to every phone conversation the Feldmarschall had with Hitler (and other senior officers). In addition, Boeselager was present a one or two private dinner parties with Hitler and his inner circle. Boeselager was a committed member of the German military resistance to Hitler and a devout Catholic. He was also a brilliant cavalary commander who eventually won the Knight's Cross. He described several encounters with Hitler, and the key feature of these is that Hitler was far more complex than modern portrayals that focus on his carefully crafted external image and what he ultimately did. The best psychological analysis of Hitler that I have ever read is Sebastian Haffner's biography "Anmerkungen zu Hitler." I do not know if that is available in English. If you wish to hear more of Boeselager's annecdotes, provide me with your email address and I will send them directly to you. Helena david aris | Helena, Have just finished reading "The Blockade Breakers", once I had started I could not put it down! As an 80 year old person who went through WW2 as a child in the north of England and experienced bombing at first hand; I can recall the blockade when I was a late teenager. It is a long time since I have read such a well presented book, all the necessary facts are there but it is not cluttered with too much detail as some books are. The history section leading up to the blockade is most interesting and your conclusions give food for thought. First class, thanks, David Aris. 6 January 2010 - The Lake District, Cumbria, England. Webmaster comments   Thank you! I cannot tell you how much it means to me that people who lived through these events find my books worth reading. This is why I am so proud of Wing Commander Bob Doe's endorsement of my novel on the Battle of Britain, Chasing the Wind. Thanks for taking the time to write to me. All the Best for 2010! Helena Silja Helf | I finished Codename Valkyrie some time ago. I liked it very much. A pity so little is known about Olbricht, also as a private person. I wrote a longer comment in an e-mail from June. 13 July 2009 - Germany Webmaster comments   Silja, I did not get the email. Helena Michael Sagner | I just finished reading "Chasing The Wind". It turned out to be the best aviation novel I have read so far; I enjoyed it very much and I'm starting "The lady in the Spitfire" right away . Now if someone could come up with enough airworthy Hurricanes and a good screenplay to make a CGI-free movie or TV mini-series from it . 27 May 2009 - Germany Webmaster comments   Thank you very much! Please recommend it to your friends. Helena Huw Thomas | Just finished "Codename Valkyrie" Why belittle the heroism of the RAF fighter pilots in the Battle of Britain? Why reduce the North African campaign to Rommel's "sideshow"? - see Steven Pressfield's excellent "Killing Rommel" for a more balanced view 5 May 2009 - Llantrisant Webmaster comments   No novel covers everything. I have devoted an entire novel, "Chasing the Wind," to the Battle of Britain. This novel was described by RAF fighter pilot and Battle of Britain Ace Wing Commander Bob Doe as "the best book" he had ever read about the Battle of Britain because it "got it smack on the way it was for us fighter pilots." I suggest you read it for an authentic understanding of what the Battle of Britain was like for the RAF. Helena P. Schrader ANCIENT SPARTA I MEDIEVAL/KNIGHTS TEMPLAR I WWII & AFTERMATH ORDER I GUEST BOOK ERRATA I LINKS I AWARDS I RINGS I HOME All contents of this web site are copyrighted. © Helena P. Schrader Web Host: ELYSIUMGATES.COM Graphics courtesy of Crystal Cloud Graphics