The Saving Of NATION
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Anton Theril thought he was going to turn 18 on his birthday. Instead, he turned into a stranger whose entire life had been a lie.
His parents and uncle were not related to him and they, as well as the elderly neighbors he considered his surrogate grandparents, were actually Chosen Guardians that had been entrusted to raise him as a good German. One fit to rule The Fatherland in the place his real father: Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married a mere thirty-six hours before committing joint suicide at the end of WWII. This seems a fruitless gesture unless one sees how this action would legalize their union and legitimize their child, a child kept as secret as their sixteen year relationship was to all of Germany, solidifying his role as Heir Apparent to the Third Reich.
Three and a half years after his surreptitious birth in 1941, Anton Alois Hitler I (ANTON I: anagram code name NATION) was spirited away from Germany then raised in the one place The Führer felt his enemies would never think to look should his son’s existence be discovered: Canada.
Hitler admired Canada’s vast territories and its anti-Semitic tendencies (Canada denied Jews sanctuary from the war until three whole years after its end!) making it an ideal temporary home.
The Saving of NATION is a story played out in retrospectives, allowing the reader to experience, and closely follow, the psychological and moral growth of a young man predestined to become the New Hitler, but guided instead by people who raise him to become a man bent on righting the sins of a father whose sins can never be righted.
The authentic, 376 word message found hidden in Hitler’s Last Will that announces Anton’s existence is a stunning anchor that makes this story intriguingly feasible.
How close to the truth did it stumble?
His parents and uncle were not related to him and they, as well as the elderly neighbors he considered his surrogate grandparents, were actually Chosen Guardians that had been entrusted to raise him as a good German. One fit to rule The Fatherland in the place his real father: Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married a mere thirty-six hours before committing joint suicide at the end of WWII. This seems a fruitless gesture unless one sees how this action would legalize their union and legitimize their child, a child kept as secret as their sixteen year relationship was to all of Germany, solidifying his role as Heir Apparent to the Third Reich.
Three and a half years after his surreptitious birth in 1941, Anton Alois Hitler I (ANTON I: anagram code name NATION) was spirited away from Germany then raised in the one place The Führer felt his enemies would never think to look should his son’s existence be discovered: Canada.
Hitler admired Canada’s vast territories and its anti-Semitic tendencies (Canada denied Jews sanctuary from the war until three whole years after its end!) making it an ideal temporary home.
The Saving of NATION is a story played out in retrospectives, allowing the reader to experience, and closely follow, the psychological and moral growth of a young man predestined to become the New Hitler, but guided instead by people who raise him to become a man bent on righting the sins of a father whose sins can never be righted.
The authentic, 376 word message found hidden in Hitler’s Last Will that announces Anton’s existence is a stunning anchor that makes this story intriguingly feasible.
How close to the truth did it stumble?