Hey there, people! Don't worry, I haven't forgotten you all - ANY of you! I've been working hard these last few months, earning an HONEST crust...something Paul Harker isn't too familiar with!
But I'm back for a few minutes with a new discovery by phylo_roadking! Something he found out entirely by accident in recent days, and he gave me the gold by email...
Sometimes things just happen at the right time. Some folks call it Serendipity. Phylo tells me he calls it Small-World-Itis...a strange and frigthening malady that affects him regularly. That strange feeling that the world really IS a truly small place! It's that strange combination of luck a, good fortune....and a major dash or predestination that he says has haunted him all his life...you all know the feeling -
You spend good money on an old movie on Ebay, and the minute you pay for the bugger...it's on the telly for the first time in DECADES!
You remember someone for the first time in years...and who's the VERY next person you walk into when you turn the next corner???
That's the sort of thing he says has happened to him daily for years now.
Well - the other day he walked into a local cheapo bookshop he frequents among many others, a UK chainstore bookshop called "Bargain Books". You all know them - the sort of place that fills its higgledy-piggledy shelves with kid's books, last year's greetings cards at discount, cheapo reprints of various "classics" on this year's school syllabus, big coffee-table books full of black-and-white pictures about the American Civil War or the Second World War or F1 racing cars, lots of U.S-market paperbacks with the edges notched so they can be discounted as "damaged"...
In the UK there's another trend; many publishers are churning out reprints of 1950's titles, memoirs and history books about the recent global conflict of the '40s that maybe got to a second or third edition...then disappeared; and most importantly - books that the 25-year copyright has lapsed on....!
Some of you might be familiar with the name Hugh Trevor-Roper. He was a WWII British Military Intelligence officer, and after the war wrote a number of definitive histories...including the now-legendary The Last Days of Hitler, published in 1947, and long regarded as the definitive story of the last days in Hitler's Bunker and what happened to the meglomaniac...Trevor-Roper isn't without controversy, but there - sitting on the shelf in "Bargain Books" was something VERY germaine to our tale....
Blitzkrieg to Defeat: Hitler's War Directives, 1939-1945 (1965)
No investigation here; no hypothesising, or debating, or theorizing. Just a straight plundering of the archive of Nazi Germany, to produce a definitive list IN ONE PLACE of all the Directives issued by Hitler during the war years.
THE vital lynchpin of Paul Harker's fraud, right from it's very first moments, was that Directive 19 was never accounted for. It was a blank file in the list, a Directive number with no details against it in ANY source....
ONE HE COULD INVENT SOMETHING AGAINST!!!
Or....was it really blank???
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