Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future

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A few years later, the teenage Günter, isolated and excluded, set out on his own to walk from Koblenz to England, with little money and only a creased official letter from the English Jewish Committee telling him when the next Kindertransport would leave Cologne, in July 1939. I found the book very easy to read in bite sized sections which started with quotes from Joe mostly, and others interviewed by the author. His television credits include presenting Channel 4's Journey to the Centre of the Earth (the science behind Jules Verne's novel), Discovery's Rebuilding the Past (an attempt to recreate an Iron Age settlement) and Five's Great Ocean Adventures, for which he was also the author of the accompanying book. Last evening, 13th October 2020, I was delighted to share my presentation via Zoom with the good ladies of Youlgrave Women’s Institute.

My father got up and saw these brown shirts, not people from our village, they might have been from Andernaach or other nearby town. He has written several books, including The Fisherman's Apprentice and the Monty Halls' Great Escape series, and is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. As the Soviet troops fought their way ever closer to the Reich Chancellery in the final days of the Third Reich, deep underground in Hitler’s bunker fateful decisions were being made. Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you.The Thorpe Great Railway Disaster of 1874 took place less than half a mile from Phyllida’s home and has fascinated her for many years, directly leading to her third non-fiction title. The morning papers led with photographs of vast crowds, many dressed in red, white and blue, celebrating in London the previous evening. The Nation could allow itself a ‘brief period of rejoicing’, but should remember that Britain was still at war with Japan. Moreover, in June 1941 all the diplomatic embassies and consulates of the United States in Germany and occupied Europe closed. Despite the growing number of applications, the American policy continued to focus on a gradual and limited wave of emigration, rather than solving a refugee crisis.

It's incredible to think how these everyday folk risked not only their lives but those of their families. Hitler and some of those closest to him resolved to commit suicide, whilst others sought to try and escape. We're always happy to answer any questions or queries you might have, please get in touch using one of the methods below.

From then on it was only possible to emigrate to America for people who could reach an American consul in Spain, Portugal, or the unoccupied part of France. For this reviewer, the book was of special interest having served in Berlin in the early 1960s when the routes and locations described were still much as they were post WWII, including access into Hitler’s bunker before it was built over. An inspiring story beginning with Joe Stirling's walk across Europe alone as a young teenager and his new life in Britain. A number were given Hitler’s personal assistance in the form of transport out of the city center and even to the two airports still open to the Luftwaffe.

Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Heimat und Exil: Emigration der deutschen Juden nach 1933 (Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006).The second deals with an escape over Mont Altissimo in the Apennines as a group look to escape from northern into southern Italy. It follows the plight of the SAS during Operation Galia as, exhausted and pursued by the enemy, they were exfiltrated across the Apennine mountains, and introduces POW Ralph Churches who orchestrated the largest successful Allied escape of the entire war. Delighted to have been invited to give an online talk about Escaping Hitler and the life of Joe Stirling.

The Commanding Officer made a speech, thanking everyone for his or her valuable contribution to the victory, even if they hadn’t been involved at the front line. The appointment of Adolf Hitler as the German Chancellor on 30 January 1933 resulted in a climax following a lengthy period of political unrest in Germany. Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and his Future – BIOGRAPHY OF JOE STIRLING by PHYLLIDA SCRIVENS published by Pen and Sword Books on 5th January 2016. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. In Escaping Hitler: The Freedom Trails, Monty Hall recreates the stories of some of the most charismatic figures of the Second World War, men like Major Gordon Lett, who escaped a POW camp in Italy and fought behind enemy lines at the head of the International Brigade.Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions. This work is by a Dutch historian with an interest in the main German personalities still close to Hitler at the end of WWII. He is best known for his Great Escapes series on BBC2 but has presented series for Channel 4, Channel 5, the History Channel and National Geographic. At the age of sixty she fulfilled a long-term ambition when awarded a Masters Degree in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia.