Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America by Glenn Beck

Author:Glenn Beck [Beck, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: History / United States / General
ISBN: 9781476764740
Amazon: 1476764743
Barnesnoble: 1476764743
Goodreads: 18404888
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2013-11-18T23:00:00+00:00

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The Saboteurs: In a Time of War, the Laws Are Silent

The Farm

West of Berlin, Germany

April 14, 1942

The Farm looked like every other large villa in the serene countryside near Berlin. Once owned by wealthy Jewish industrialists, most of these estates were now the property of the Third Reich and had become uniform in their operation and appearance.

But this particular estate was different.

As the sun rose over the center of a million square miles of Nazi-occupied Europe, George Dasch—thirty-nine years old, with long, lanky arms, and a streak of silver through the center of his dark hair—sat through another class on bomb-making. Well-trained German shepherds patrolled the perimeter of the estate, just beyond a large stone wall.

Each student at the Farm had been specifically chosen for a special mission based on their ability to blend into ordinary American communities. All of them had spent time in the United States, most having left only after failing in a string of professional pursuits.

As George watched the instructor demonstrate the bomb assembly for what seemed like the five hundredth time, he looked around the classroom and began to wonder about his classmates. None of them, to his knowledge, had demonstrated any real loyalty to the Nazis or hatred toward the United States. He had neither. Worse, none of them had experience in espionage or military tactics or any of the other skills that might make someone a useful candidate for this kind of mission.

It was all pretty surreal, George thought, and so atypical of the way the Nazis normally operated. Loyalty and allegiance to the Third Reich were everything to them. He’d expected to be interrogated, maybe even tortured, in an attempt to break him. He’d prepared for the inevitable pain that was to come; worked to control his heart rate and breathing, and he thought carefully about how he would answer questions about his time in the United States. How would he fake the animosity they would so desperately want to see? He worried that he’d never be able to pull it off. He worried that he’d be labeled a sympathizer of the enemy and executed, his body thrown in some shallow grave outside the Farm.

But George didn’t need to worry about any of that, because the interrogation never came.

There were no questions, no torture, and no threats against his family.

Now he and his classmates were inside the Farm, training for an incredibly difficult and important mission—and none of them had the slightest idea how they’d gotten there.

New York City

Monday, December 8, 1941

John Cullen thought he was minutes away from becoming a U.S. Marine.

That morning he, along with hundreds of other tall, blue-eyed twenty-one-year-olds, set out for the New York City Armed Services recruiting station. He wanted to hit back against the Japanese personally, violently, and immediately.

Well, not quite immediately. After all, Christmas was just over two weeks away. He figured he could sign up now, spend one more Christmas with his family, and then ship out right afterward.

John entered the recruiting station,

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