Hans-Georg Henke, 16, assistant to the Luftwaffe, arrested in May 1945 in Berlin.
(c) Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Berlin, 1941. Thousands of Jews, known as "submarines", survive hidden in the bowels of the city. On the surface, the Gestapo bullies, castiga y asesina. Los extranjeros, corresponsales y diplomáticos llevan una vida aparentemente más relajada en los locales de la Kurfurstendamm. El restaurante del hotel Eden, el Horcher o el Venezia mantienen el esplendor que conoció Berlín durante los años veinte y treinta, pero ahora sólo pueden permitírselo un puñado de privilegiados. Los burdeles desaparecieron, pero vuelven a abrirse algunos locales con licencias especiales, como el de la Knesebeckstrasse, donde a finales de 1940 Dionisio Ridruejo y Serrano Suñer gozaron de la compañía de putas pagadas por Ribbentrop. Los restaurantes húngaros se las apañan para guisar el goulasch con poca carne. Berlín todavía no ha sufrido los brutales bombardeos 1943 and breathes optimism. The Wehrmacht had taken France and try to get their claws on Russia.
The Blue Division troops have not stepped on German soil. Some of them, after being repatriated to Spain, returning in secret to fight for the defense of Berlin. English diplomats withstand the bombardment of their homes and the embassy. There is a student lost in the streets in ruins. In the late thirties and the forties also live in Berlin some correspondents trying to tell, beyond the threats of censorship, so that you are running Europe. Ruano González, García Díaz, Herraiz, Pizarro, Artistic, Penella de Silva, Garriga, Pombo Angulo, Ballesteros, Sanchez Maspón, Abeytua or Ernesto del Campo. After the war, many books published by the combination of chronic and memoirs show a tragic Berlin whose wounds are still visible today, almost sixty-five years after it was taken by the Russians.
series on English war correspondents in Berlin starts with Manuel Penella de Silva (Valencia, March 4, 1910 - Rio de Janeiro, April 12, 1969). Bachelor of Arts. Correspondent different English media (Diario de Barcelona and Destiny among others) and Hispanic Americans in Paris, Berlin, Guatemala and Zurich. Since 1954, aggregate information on the English embassies in Uruguay, Chile and Brazil. Married a German and had five children. He died in his office of a heart attack.
Penella de Silva lived many years in Germany. First in Mannheim and later in Leipzig, where he served as local chief of the Falange. At the request of Secretary Ignacio de Oyarzábal embassy and Velarde, was transferred to Berlin as a correspondent for the newspaper El Alcázar. Penella must have come to Berlin in late 1940 or early 1941. He moved into an apartment next to a journalist Ramón Garriga Alemany. Despite it was forbidden, on the floor could hear jazz music and was open to friends, friends and colleagues who were talking shop and drinking good spirits.
Penella was aware of the situation in Germany in the war. News and views shared with other colleagues, German ministry officials, friends of this and that, with people who belied by facts of Hitler's harangues and his ministers. His friendship with one of the American correspondents, Richard Hottelet, the United Press, led to him being arrested by the Gestapo. Hottelet was accused of espionage, and the Nazis did not hesitate to dip into their friends. Penella returned home the day of his arrest. Said it was unlikely that Hottelet work as a spy. Could not be that U.S. intelligence will take your money. In fact, the last time you talked to him Penella had lent him a thousand marks.
Tired of the Nazis, and perhaps in fear of being arrested more times, Penella left Berlin and went to South America with the agency Efe. He lived there until the end of his days. Posted something he wrote the autobiography of Eva Peron and turned into a diplomatic career until his death.
of his time in Germany left two notable books: The number 7 and A year atrocious. The first is a fierce anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler argument. Was reprinted several times and was translated into Italian. A year atrocious published the slipstream of the success of the first book is a compilation of the history he wrote in 1945.
Manuel Penella de Silva in La Vanguardia
Penella's Germany. Juan Ramon Masoliver ( November 8, 1945 )
has died Manuel Penella de Silva, Manolo, in the memory ( April 13, 1969 )
The Blue Division troops have not stepped on German soil. Some of them, after being repatriated to Spain, returning in secret to fight for the defense of Berlin. English diplomats withstand the bombardment of their homes and the embassy. There is a student lost in the streets in ruins. In the late thirties and the forties also live in Berlin some correspondents trying to tell, beyond the threats of censorship, so that you are running Europe. Ruano González, García Díaz, Herraiz, Pizarro, Artistic, Penella de Silva, Garriga, Pombo Angulo, Ballesteros, Sanchez Maspón, Abeytua or Ernesto del Campo. After the war, many books published by the combination of chronic and memoirs show a tragic Berlin whose wounds are still visible today, almost sixty-five years after it was taken by the Russians.
series on English war correspondents in Berlin starts with Manuel Penella de Silva (Valencia, March 4, 1910 - Rio de Janeiro, April 12, 1969). Bachelor of Arts. Correspondent different English media (Diario de Barcelona and Destiny among others) and Hispanic Americans in Paris, Berlin, Guatemala and Zurich. Since 1954, aggregate information on the English embassies in Uruguay, Chile and Brazil. Married a German and had five children. He died in his office of a heart attack.
Penella de Silva lived many years in Germany. First in Mannheim and later in Leipzig, where he served as local chief of the Falange. At the request of Secretary Ignacio de Oyarzábal embassy and Velarde, was transferred to Berlin as a correspondent for the newspaper El Alcázar. Penella must have come to Berlin in late 1940 or early 1941. He moved into an apartment next to a journalist Ramón Garriga Alemany. Despite it was forbidden, on the floor could hear jazz music and was open to friends, friends and colleagues who were talking shop and drinking good spirits.
Penella was aware of the situation in Germany in the war. News and views shared with other colleagues, German ministry officials, friends of this and that, with people who belied by facts of Hitler's harangues and his ministers. His friendship with one of the American correspondents, Richard Hottelet, the United Press, led to him being arrested by the Gestapo. Hottelet was accused of espionage, and the Nazis did not hesitate to dip into their friends. Penella returned home the day of his arrest. Said it was unlikely that Hottelet work as a spy. Could not be that U.S. intelligence will take your money. In fact, the last time you talked to him Penella had lent him a thousand marks.
Tired of the Nazis, and perhaps in fear of being arrested more times, Penella left Berlin and went to South America with the agency Efe. He lived there until the end of his days. Posted something he wrote the autobiography of Eva Peron and turned into a diplomatic career until his death.
of his time in Germany left two notable books: The number 7 and A year atrocious. The first is a fierce anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler argument. Was reprinted several times and was translated into Italian. A year atrocious published the slipstream of the success of the first book is a compilation of the history he wrote in 1945.
Manuel Penella de Silva in La Vanguardia
Penella's Germany. Juan Ramon Masoliver ( November 8, 1945 )
has died Manuel Penella de Silva, Manolo, in the memory ( April 13, 1969 )
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