Objetivo Heberlein: El secuestro más insólito de la Gestapo en España Franco

Did you know that, in the midst of World War II, a farm in Toledo was the scene of a mind-boggling kidnapping by the Gestapo? Have you heard of the diplomat who, disgusted by Nazism, found refuge in Franco's Spain and defied direct orders from Ribbentrop, Hitler's foreign minister? What dark secrets did Erich Heberlein know to become a priority target? How were his compatriots able to violently remove him from the theoretically neutral territory of Spain? With great narrative skill and exquisite rigor, journalist Marta Tomé reconstructs in this work one of the least known episodes of the last global conflagration and the complex relations between the Third Reich and Francoism. Her meticulous research, based on personal interviews, international archives, and unpublished documents, beginning with Heberlein's own personal diary, immerses us in the harrowing adventures of the advisor and his wife, Margot Calleja, from their peaceful life in the Toledo countryside to the horror of the German secret police prisons and the camps of Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Dachau. The result is a gripping story that serves as an illustration of a world straight out of a movie. Objetivo Heberlein is much more than a cold, by-the-book chronicle of a kidnapping: it is a powerful portrait of the geopolitical chessboard of Europe and the world in a not-so-distant time, and of the complex networks of espionage, power, and betrayal woven to reach even non-belligerent countries. Were the Spanish security forces complicit in such a flagrant violation of their sovereignty? Did the Allied intelligence services play a role? Why has this unusual case been silenced for decades?