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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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| Author | Philip Kerr |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Bernie Gunther |
| Genre | Crime thriller |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | If the Dead Rise Not |
| Followed by | Prague Fatale |
Field Grey is a 2010 crime thriller novel by the British author Philip Kerr.[1][2] It is the seventh in his series of novels featuring the Berlin detective Bernie Gunther. The title refers to Feldgrau, the colour of the uniforms of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It provides a retrospective look across Gunther's service in during the war.[3] As with other books in the series it features the fictional Gunther alongside a number of real historical figures and incidents. In the United States it was published as Field Gray.
The story jumps between several time periods. In Havana in 1954, Gunther plans to flee the country rather than being pressed into the service of the secret police of the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. However his escape is thwarted when his vessel is stopped by a US Navy patrol vessel and he is taken to the base at Guantanamo Bay. Realising that they have got hold of Bernie Gunther, suspected as a potential war criminal he flown back to West Germany via New York.
In Germany he is incarcerated by the American authorities at Landsberg Prison near Munich, filled with war criminals. Under interrogation, he relates his experiences in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa around Minsk where he committed a retaliatory massacre of Soviet NKVD agents. It soon becomes clear that the CIA are more interested in his complex history with Erich Mielke dating back to 1931 and the dying days of the Weimar Republic. As an officer of the Berlin police he had rescued the German Communist militant from likely death at the hands of Nazi Party stormtroopers, a few months later Gunther tried to arrest him following the murder of two Berlin policemen but Meilke has fled the country.
The two encountered each other again in 1940 when Gunther went to Vichy France with orders to identify and Meilke. Having been sent there by Reinhard Heydrich of the SS, Gunther is reluctant to have Meilke arrested and summarily executed rather than the judicial trial he believes he deserves for his killing of the police officer and he pretends not to recognise him, sparing his life again. At the end of the Second World War with Gunther now a prisoner in an East German concentration camp following his capture at the Battle of Königsberg, Meilke pretends to return the favour by helping Gunther escape. In fact Meilke plans to have Gunther killed by an assassin on the journey, believing he knows too much about his dirty linen now he is a rising figure in the East German secret police.
Back in 1954 Gunther finds himself in a complex game between the CIA and French Intelligence as they hope to lure Meilke across the border into West Berlin and seize him.
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Field Grey is a 2010 crime thriller novel by the British author Philip Kerr. It is the seventh in his series of novels featuring the Berlin detective Bernie Gunther. The title refers to Feldgrau, the colour of the uniforms of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It provides a retrospective look across Gunther's service in during the war. As with other books in the series it features the fictional Gunther alongside a number of real historical figures and incidents. In the United States it was published as Field Gray.
Bretherton: Khaki or Field Grey? is a novel by W. F. Morris, first published in 1929 by Geoffrey Bles. It was published in the U.S. under the titles G. B.: A Story of the Great War (Dodd, Mead & Co.) and G. B.: The Mystery of the Shelled Chateau (Grosset & Dunlap). At the time of its publication, it was called "the finest English war-novel yet issued" by Arnold Bennett. The title of the novel refers to the colours of the uniforms of the British and German armies, khaki and feldgrau.
Gray Butte Field Airport is a private airport located 25 miles east of Palmdale, California. It is owned by General Atomics of San Diego. Its primary use is the development and testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for the United States Military and the United States Government. Gray Butte Field Airport, has a sister site located at El Mirage Field. Aircraft known to have been operated and developed at this facility include: General Atomics Avenger General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Predator B Predator XP Gray Eagle Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) MQ-9B General Atomics XQ-67A
Hauptsturmführer (German: [ˈhaʊpt.ʃtʊʁmˌfyːʁɐ], lit. 'head storm leader'; short: Hstuf) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations such as the SS, NSKK and the NSFK. The rank of Hauptsturmführer was a mid-level commander and had equivalent seniority to a captain (Hauptmann) in the German Army and also the equivalency of captain in foreign armies. The rank of Hauptsturmführer evolved from the older rank of Sturmhauptführer, created as a rank of the Sturmabteilung (SA). The SS used the rank of Sturmhauptführer from 1930 to 1934 at which time, following the Night of the Long Knives, the name of the rank was changed to Hauptsturmführer although the insignia remained the same. Sturmhauptführer remained an SA rank until 1939/40. Some of the most infamous SS members are known to have held the rank of Hauptsturmführer. Among them are Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor assigned to Auschwitz; Joseph Kramer, commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; Franz Stangl, commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka; Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's assistant; and Amon Göth, who was sentenced to death and hanged for committing multiple waves of mass murder (liquidations of the ghettos at Tarnów and Kraków, the camp at Szebnie, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, as portrayed in the film Schindler's List). The insignia of Hauptsturmführer was three silver pips and two silver stripes on a black collar patch, worn opposite a unit insignia patch. On the field grey duty uniform, the shoulder boards of an army Hauptmann were also displayed. The rank of Hauptsturmführer was senior to the rank of Obersturmführer and junior to Sturmbannführer.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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