The Vampires of Berlin
Prologue.
IN APRIL 1945, the Second World War was coming to a bloody end for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
As the Red Army encircled Berlin, the Nazi leadership broadcast a curious radio message to their adversaries. They threatened that if Russian forces were not immediately withdrawn from German soil, a secret weapon “more powerful than the sun itself” would be unleashed upon them. The message ended with an ominous warning; there will be no survivors.
Allied intelligence intercepted the message and came to the grim conclusion that the Nazis had developed a nuclear bomb. They also believed that Hitler was about to use this weapon against the Soviet 8th Guards Army, which was positioned in and around Berlin.
President Roosevelt himself notified the Kremlin of this analysis, but Stalin elected to continue the relentless attack on the German capital. Meanwhile, his generals quietly braced for the possibility of mass casualties on an unimaginable scale.
On May 1, 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered the weapon, code-named Tristan, to be used against the Red Army. It is not known why these efforts failed, but shortly after giving the order, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide.
Over the last sixty years, there has been a great deal of speculation about the nature of Operation Tristan and the miracle weapon that had Hitler so convinced that he was about to win the Second World War.
To date, every American president since Truman has precluded any legislative or judicial inquiry into Operation Tristan on the grounds of national security. Furthermore, any and all related Freedom of Information Act requests have been summarily rejected by the United States government.
The secret that the United States, German and Russian governments have held onto for over sixty years is about to be revealed.
My Immortal: The Vampires of Berlin
A novel by Lee Rudnicki
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