The Novel's Premise

Discredited Pentagon scientist Hugh Everett’s is now getting the respect he never got in his sad, alcoholic lifetime.

The Princeton-educated physicist (1930-1982) theorized that an infinite number of similar but not identical parallel universes exist.

Our avatars or doppelgängers may or may not inhabit what Everett called “multiple worlds.”

He also theorized that these worlds might intersect or collide, possibly via a black hole. Black holes may also offer a portal for time and space travel.

A recent cable TV documentary about the Stanford Research Center reported that experiments based on Everett’s theory are ongoing there.

In experiments at Stanford, classically-trained musicians perform amazing feats of telepathy and other inexplicable miracles. Electrodes attached to the musicians’ brain show activity distinct from the brains of non-musicians.

Russell Targ was one of two physicists who conducted telepathic espionage experiments for the CIA at the Stanford Research Center in Palo Alto California.

Targ says that at least once in our life time we are able to look into the future. Scientists call that a precognitive experience, also known as clairvoyance.

Classically trained musicians, according to Stanford researchers, have frequent telepathic or other paranormal experiences.

The Story

In The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler, I've created one of Hugh Everett's parallel universes in which the Nazi dictator marries and torments a beautiful Swedish countess, Christina Bernadotte.

Against a background of actual events, the fictional Countess Bernadotte rescues thousands of Jews right under her drug-addled husband's nose. She also manages to interact with such diverse historical figures as Freud, and Coco Chanel.

As the Eleanor Roosevelt of the Third Reich, the photogenic wife of Adolf Hitler becomes an international icon. The novel’s richly imagined world has led some readers to ask if Frau Hitler were an actual figure they had somehow missed in college history class!

After the war, Countess Bernadotte reluctantly writes her painful memoirs at the request of her “Bernadottejuden” or “Bernadotte’s Jews” -- Holocaust victims she has rescued.

Her humanitarian work is similar to the efforts of the real-life Oskar Schindler, who was fictionalized in the film Schindler’s List. Like Countess Bernadotte’s eponymous Jews, the people on Schindler’s list called themselves “Schindlerjuden” in honor of their rescuer.

A great-granddaughter of the king of Sweden in this parallel universe, the countess is forced by her politically ambitious mother to marry Hitler at the age of 16.

The chapter describing the teenager's wedding night at Berchtesgaden is as terrifying as it seems real. Countess Bernadotte’s fate which climaxes the novel is even more horrific and proves Dorothy Parker’s quip that no good deed goes unpunished.

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