Triumph

By: James Philip

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The 1976 Germania Olympiad, blighted by terrorism proved to be anything but the great propaganda triumph designed to accompany Reinhard Heydrich’s supposedly epoch-defining peace treaty with the United States.

However, far from drawing a line under the crimes of the past, the Europa Reich is riven with generational and economic problems and never has the concept of a grandiose Roman-style Triumph to celebrate the disaster of the recent games and a token exculpation of the atrocities committed by the ‘Great’, wartime generation, been more divisive across a Reich attempting to re-write the history books.

And just beneath the surface the man ‘with the heart of iron’ has deliberately added fuel to the fire by triggering the long-signalled first purge of his decade-long leadership, a ‘brutal housekeeping’ of the Party and the SS state on the scale of the infamous Night of the Long Knives in 1934.

The dawn of a new era of global relations. A settlement of the Cold War, a rapprochement with the United States, a settling of a thousand old scores at home and an admission by the Reich that it murdered millions of Jews in the 1940s (and then spent years covering up the evidence)?

How on earth was that ever going to end well?

Especially with a US Navy squadron trapped in the Baltic and the awakened US-sponsored Resistance movement attempting to wreak havoc in the World Capital, Germania.

For Albrecht and Christina Kramer and their infant daughter, under protective custody of the Waffen SS at the Prora resort on the Baltic Coast, the nightmare is about to begin.

Hunted by friends and foes alike they must flee for their lives.

This reproofed and reformatted edition of Triumph was published on 7 May 2025.