Achtung! History

Hildegard Zäpernick goes missing on the evening of the 12th of August 1929 in Berlin's Westend district and the news quickly spreads. Residents enter the streets and begin hunting for the missing girl. Listen to the carefully reconstructed account of the movements of the residents and police of that evening in The Watcher - The Search. 

Its August 1929 in Berlin. It's a time that the city is fondly remembered by in history. The time of dancing and decadence, and a time when the city is awash with people from all over the nation moving to live within its limits. But Berlin was not, for everyone, a city of glitz and glamour, it was a breathing, living entity, in which they must survive, and sometimes the harsh realities hit even the, often regarded, safest of communities. 

Pieced together from police files, reports and newspapers The Watcher is a new series from Achtung! History, produced by The Berlin Tour Guide and presented by Simon J. James, exploring a crime that shook the metropolis of Berlin. 

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In August 1929 Berlin was alive, the city of vices, attracting people from all walks of life and from all over the world to take the pleasures on offer but at the same time a crime was committed that shocked the city and sent it into a panic, the disappearance of an 11 year old girl from in front of her home. The case, handed to Berlin's infamous criminal police, had no clues, the girl had vanished into thin air. 

Join your host, Simon J. James, as he meticulously pieces together the fragments of evidence from the police file, newspapers and reports, to take you on a journey through a true crime that shocked a city in an unravelling of the past in: "The Watcher." 

The Watcher, is an Achtung! History Podcast produced by The Berlin Tour Guide. Follow on facebook, twitter and Instagram at @achtunghistory, visit the website at theberlintourguide.com/achtunghistory and become a patreon via patreon.com/achtunghistory 

In the final episode of He Who Holds The Devil, join Simon J. James into some theories as to why the allies never brought Hans Globke to trial for his crimes against humanity. 

Why wasn't an attempted assassination on the Chancellor of Germany investigated, what Skeletons did the Konrad Adenauer Regime have hiding in their closets and what would happen if you tried to expose them? 

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Achtung! History is presented by Simon J. James and is a production of The Berlin Tour Guide.  

The war is over, Germany is defeated. Many of the leading Nazi figures, names and faces that are well known are in camps awaiting trial, but what about Hans Globke the subject of He Who Holds The Devil? 

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Achtung! History is presented by Simon J. James and is a production of The Berlin Tour Guide. 

The British, with the Munich agreement, have gifted the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Hitler's Third Reich, crowds of Germans watch as the Führer triumphantly rolls into the new lands, but for those who are not considered ethnic Germans what is to happen to them? Hans Globke has a plan.  

Jerusalem 1961 and Adolf Eichmann the recently captured Nazi is delivering his evidence to the court, evidence that lays much of the blame for the persecution of the Jewish people and for the Holocaust on Department I of the Reich's Ministry of the Interior, which just happens to be Hans Globke's department. 

He's taken your name and now he wants your legal identity. Hans Globke continues on his quest to persecute the Jews of Germany, producing laws, drafts and commentaries that will seek to separate Germany's Jews from the heritage and culture. 

In this episode we're looking into Hans Globke's influence on the infamous Nuremberg Laws and how his commentaries created the legal framework for the final solution.