The brighter side of Seb Wolff's world...
Three loves of Munich detective Seb Wolff:
his girlfriend Hexie Schuler, a litre of Bavarian beer... and his red Lancia Augusta
...and the dark side of Munich in the 1930s
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Unity Mitford in blackshirt; roll-call at the Dachau concentration camp; Christian Weber, known as 'The Pig' and perhaps the most corrupt man in Munich, having made himself a multi-millionaire from theft and intimidation; the massed ranks of the SS in Königsplatz, Munich; Hitler shows himself to the adoring crowds in the city centre; and a sign saying 'Jews not wanted here' in the Freimann district.
Life at the Berghof - Hitler's mountain retreat
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Berghof as it was in the 1930s (the building is now destroyed); Hitler welcomes the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1937; Eva Braun on the Berghof terrace; Martin and Gerda Bormann, seen as 'the king and queen' of the Berghof. The dining room with SS men in their uniforms as waiters
Scenes from the Lebensborn children's home
LEFT: A nurse tends to a row of babies in cots under the baleful shadow of a flag with SS runes.
RIGHT: a naming ceremony for a baby at the Steinhöring home in Bavaria. Chillingly, the child is placed on a pillow in front of a swastika.
Echoes of the past in the Bavaria of today
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Hitler's luxurious apartment at 16, Prinzregentenplatz (second floor); the entrance to the Olympic stadium at Garmisch-Partenkirchen; the Black Hall in the Residenz, from where SS-general Christian Weber ran the city and amassed his fortune; 50, Schellingstrasse, Munich - first home of the Nazi party (note the eagle insignia above the door, still not quite erased).
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