The Summer of 1936 was to be very important for Hitler's Third Reich. There would be hundreds of thousands of visitors, from all over the world, coming to Berlin for the Olympics. The Nazis were determined to show the "New Germany" in the best possible light. America's Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the "Lone Eagle," who, in 1927, became the first man to fly solo from New York to Paris, was arriving on July 22nd for a 10 day visit. A few weeks prior to his arrival, a plot was discovered. A major crime ring was being paid a great deal of money to assassinate him during his visit. This was Charles...
The Summer of 1936 was to be very important for Hitler's Third Reich. There would be hundreds of thousands of visitors, from all over the world, comin...