Achtung! History

Franz Müller aboard the sail ship Victoria has no idea that steaming across the Atlantic are the Metropolitan Police and those that can point the finger toward him for the murder of Thomas Briggs on the 9:50 from Frenchchurch Street Station on the 9th of July 1864. The plan of Inspector Tanner, arrest Müller aboard the ship on which he sails and beg for extradition from the US courts for the man wanted for murder. But will it go to plan? And if he is extradited what will happen to him in the English Courts of Law. Find out in the final episode of Murder on the Tracks, an investigation into the first murder on British Rail, pieced together from testimonies and court documents and news stories of the day and brought to you by Achtung! History.

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and gain early access to the next episodes on Patreon for as little as 1€.

Inspector Tanner and the London Metropolitan Police are faced with a difficult predicament. It has come to light that the man of most interest in the murder of Thomas Briggs, the first person to be murdered on British rail, has left British shores and that now they must give chase. 

Discover London in the 1860s, the streets, the docks and wharfs and its people in Murder on the Tracks to true story of the first murder on British railway and the incredible story that followed. This is episode 3 the chase. 

 Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and gain early access to the next episodes on Patreon for as little as 1€.

Thomas Briggs was found unconscious on the tracks of London's Northern Railway in 1864, a short time after he died. In this second episode of Murder on the Tracks, delve into the early history of London's Metropolitan Police, the streets, sounds and people of London and discover the investigation into Thomas Briggs death and how it all hinged on a chain and a hat before turning into a steamer chase across the Atlantic. 

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and gain early access to the next episodes on Patreon for as little as 1€.

Come on a journey, a journey into the past. Travel to a time when Britain ruled much of the world and London was its beating financial heart, Join Simon J. James in the discovery of the incredible and true story of the first murder on the British railway. A murder of a well respected banker that left a city in shock and led to an international chase that took criminal investigators over an ocean. This is, Murder on the tracks, episode one: Thomas Briggs.  

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and gain early access to the next episodes on Patreon for as little as 1€.

In 1986 a young punk and underground artist within the DDR (East Germany) travels, with his super 8mm Russian made camera through a forest north of Berlin. There, glinting against the white of the snow he catches sight of something. Something that no other German had seen for 40 years. Recording the objects with his camera he returns to Berlin, edits it into a film, holds a showing and, as soon as the show is over, he burns the film. Why? What had he discovered? But what he had done had started, unknowingly, a story that would come to involve, classic car dealers, envelopes of cash, art historians and smugglers, international criminals and more! 

Discover 'The Hunt for Hitler's Horses'. 

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and gain early access to the next episodes on Patreon for as little as 1€.

Multi-millionaires, an East German Punk, art dealers, con artists, police informants, and two giant bronze horses that once stood outside Hitler's Reich Chancellery that went missing at the end of the war. This is, the two parter, 'The Hunt for Hitler's Horses.' This first episode looks Josef Thorak the artists of the Hitler horses and with art during the time of National Socialism. Join us again next week for the second part, when discovery leads to international plots, raids, a secret film and much more, in the strange but true story of 'The Hunt for Hitler's Horses.'

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and gain early access to the next episodes on Patreon for as little as 1€.

In August 1348 an old man arrives before the Archbishop of Magdeburg. He is frail and worn but, in dropping a signet ring before the Archbishop, he claims to be Woldemar the Great, Margrave of Brandenburg, but there is only one problem. Woldemar the Great had been dead for 29 years. 

Who was this old man, what did he want, could it possibly be that this man truly was the Great Leader, the last in the Brandenburg Ascanian line, known as Woldemar returned to claim his land and who would believe him? 

Join Achtung! History for a journey into the history that involces Woldemar, Archbishops, excommunication, the Bavarian Wittelsbachs, and discover the fascinating story of Woldemar and the greatest con in history! 

 Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and receive the exclusive bonus episodes of Podcast Notes on Patreon all for as little as 1€.

Achtung! History brings you a Halloween bonus episode "The Haunting of House Hohenzollern." She had sworn revenge on the family of the man who imprisoned her, Johann Georg, Prince Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia. Swearing to enact punishments that would bring misery on to their family that had stolen her children from her and imprisoned her in the Spandau Citadel. Over the centuries she was seen, dressed in white, walking the corridors of the Berlin Schloß heralding the death of another member of the family that would eventually rise to become Emperors of Germany.  

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and receive the exclusive bonus episodes of Podcast Notes on Patreon all for as little as 1€.

A thoughtful gift from the city or an insult against the highest man in  the land? In 1891 Max von Forckenbeck would, as a sign of respect and easing of frustrations, gift to German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, a magnificent fountain that still stands in Berlin today. Cast by the favourite sculptor of the Kaiser it was supposed to bring joy to the often petulant Kaiser, instead it brought the Kaiser to go head to head with a god. 

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History and receive the bonus Episode Notes Podcast on Patreon from as little as 1€. 

Discover the story of 27 year old resistance fighter Ursula Goetze who in times of great horror, when Hitler's Gestapo (secret police) were at their most powerful fought with words and knowledge against the regime and would pay the ultimate price. 

"Resistance" will be a new theme podcast that over the coming months multiple episodes will be produced of. 

Achtung! History is produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J, James. You can follow Achtung! History on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or support Achtung History on Patreon from as little as 1€.