I bought this book at a dollar at Dollar Greentree. I know. I know. I hardly need to buy anymore books. This book intrigued me a bit because of its premise of a brief German "Reich" for a few weeks which follows the fall of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler. Admiral Karl Donitz was the successor of Hitler and the "Fuhrer" for about 3 weeks. He ended up serving 10 years in prison for his war crimes. This part of the book is true and many of the characters in the book are real characters woven in with a historical novel on the four Flying Magical Loerber Brothers who are far from real. Actually, I found the Loerber brothers very distracting as I read this book. Albert Speer and his attempts to thwart Hitler's final orders to annihilate German culture and history are an interesting read and (as far as I understand) are the true part of story. Speer ended up being tried as a war criminal and served his time of 20 years despite the protests of many that Speer should be regarded as a tragic hero for preserving many things in Germany in the final days of World War II.
Getting back to the Jewish Loerber brothers, I found that their "antics" were puzzling and would be puzzling to many Jewish people. The main brother, Ziggy, strangely enough, is a Jewish Nazi sympathizer if such a thing is possible. The other brothers, Manni (an assassin, Franzi (a triple agent) and Sebastian (who works for the Blood of Israel) have powers that are a bit unbelievable.
Many other true historical characters grace the pages and the history buff will be pleased with many of the references. At the end the author spends several pages telling the "rest of the story" on the real characters in the book.
However, was it a good book? Well, I think it was worth the read...but as I said above, I would have been OK if the Loerber Brothers would have had less dialogue and narrative. If you like World War II books you will probably enjoy it. I did.
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