The Jewish Nazi

Description

IMAGINE it’s today and you’re offered the chance to partake in a unique time travel adventure. Begin by closing your eyes and visualizing the joy of being surrounded by family and friends on your favorite holiday. Now open your eyes and IMAGINE you have been transported back in time into Hell’s topside habitation, Nazi Germany!

Now IMAGINE you killing Hitler and orchestrating the same fate for Goebbels . . . IMAGINE risking your life to prevent the Holocaust . . . IMAGINE meeting the woman of your dreams during your voyage—a woman with a secret far surpassing your own . . . How’s it going so far? There’s more . . .

Vocale weaves his reluctant time traveling protagonist, Benjamin Bauman, a Jewish doctor from 2019, into the violent, anti-Semitic world of The Third Reich. When Ben awakes in 1937 after being rendered unconscious from a car accident, he does so with a new language and a new name, cloaking his Jewish heritage . . . for now. To the Germans he is known as Karl Schroder, Generalarzt and Chief Surgeon of the hospital where he now resides as its newest patient. Once again, IMAGINE this is you. Got a plan?

Surrounded by actual historical events (many explained within interesting sidebars) and with a little help from his new friend, an American radio voice and a real–life celebrity author to be, Vocale offers Ben the chance to change history as the pros and cons of returning to the present loom throughout.

In the end, three clicks of the heels won’t get Ben back home as it did if you were stuck in Oz. He will have to do better. The heel clicks in this novel are reserved for the Nazi jackboots as they pound pavement around Ben with frightening ubiquity.

Despite the paradox roadblocks inherent to all time travelers, if played right positive outcomes from altering history can be far reaching, so much so the reader, or those with the best imaginations, will have a hand in Ben’s fate.