Colin’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2012)

Colin’s comments from the THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP group.

Steinhoff and his family weere and still are great friends of mine. he was a very great guy to hang with. he was one of my best interviews.

No problem. Some of the interviews with BoB pilots published years ago in the magazines are online at www.thehistorynet.com, such as Galland, Rall, Hrabak, Steinhoff, Wolf Falck, Hajo Herrmann, etc. These are abbrevaited versions, the book has the full interviews.

My book The German Aces Speak has some comments from four German pilots who fought during the Battle of Britain. I am working on Volume 2 now.

When I interviewed Pieter Krueler (see outr next book out in May, "Four War Boer", he was running 2-4 miles three times a week on the back, aged 99.

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "I enjoyed his book when I first read it back in the 1980's. An interesting bloke for sure and I bet he would have some great stories to tell over a cold beer!"

Knoke and Georg-Peter Eder and I along with Steinhoff, Krupinski and Hartmann has some good times. many others also. I miss them all, only a few left now.

Jayastout wrote: "Hi Colin--I've seen Amazon bundle our latest books together. I suppose that's a good thing."

I should think so, Adam Makos and I have been selling well together also, as we have two interconnected books.

Good to meet another historian who writes thorugh the eyes of those who lived it

Colin

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Also on pages 88-89 we have a good account from the German ace Heinz Knoke and how he nearly went down with his shot-up Me-109.

For more info on this German pilot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He..."

I interviewed and knew Heinz, great guy, loved his beer

Helen wrote: "Colin wrote: "No problem, I interviewed three SS men, including the last living commander of the 5th SS Division Wiking, Muhelkamp, who was second in command under Obergruppenfuehrer Erich von dem ..."

Go to my website, and see the page Future Books, and look at my SS men I interviewed

Welcome aboard

You may want to read my book Occupation and Insurgency, see it at Amazon.

Colin Heaton

FYI, if any goodreads authors join our website as a member, you can get discounts on signed books if you order them from us. www.lewisheatonbooks.com

get the book "V-2) by Gen. Walter Dornberger, who was the project commander at Peenemunde

Roger, will do. Writing the second volume of The German Aces Speak now, and the next book Four War Boer is out May 1.

Kleist was one one my many interviews, and I am working on a book based upon about 70 interviews with those who knew Hitler, Goering, Himmelr et al.

Tytti: Just as an FYI, my agent just agreed to allow a Finnish publisher to publish our book The Star of Africa in Finnish. The French version will be out next year.

FYI, several senior SS officers, even generals, such as Bittrich, Steiner, Hausser et al, all told Himmler that they would not allow their men to participate in any unwarranted killings, unless the criteria was met by the Geneva Convention of 1929. FYI, Bittrich opnely call Himmler "an idiot" for even thinking such a plan was a great idea. Steiner told his men that he would court martial nay man who killed a civilian, and there are plenty more examples. I am writing a book now about all of this.

Egon Mayer was joined by Georg-Peter Eder in developing the head on atack method. Mayer was with Eder in JG-2 at that time, and they then held a special school for fighter pilots, sanctioned by Galland, to teach this method in the classroom. Some of the best graduates of that school then did the "practical application" exrecise, in a real mission. pass or fail was often a deadly event. Eder went on to shoot down 78 aircraft, with 36 being confirmed four engine bombers. He was shot down 17 times, wounded 14 times, and scored his last 12 kills in the Me-262 jet.

My book Night Fighters explains the Allied rationale for not bombing Auschwitz, which was the same rationale for the Soviets not rolling into Warsaw during the general Uprising of 1944.

Look at Leon degrelle's Campaign in Russia, among a few he wrote. Degrelle was a great interview.