{"id":1525,"date":"2016-10-18T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.30.214.42\/blog\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:07:55","slug":"ascension-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/ascension-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascension Series A Novel of Nazi Germany by Max Overton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ascension<\/p>\n

Before he fully realized the diabolical cruelties of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, Konrad Wengler had committed atrocities against his own people, the Jews, out of fear of both his faith and his heritage. But after he witnesses firsthand the concentration camps, the corruption, the inhuman malevolence of the Nazi war machine and the propaganda aimed at annihilating an entire race, he knows he must find a way to turn the tide and become the savior his people desperately need.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Ascension<\/a>Book 1: Ascension<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Being a Jew in Germany can be a dangerous thing…<\/em><\/p>\n

Fear prompts Konrad Wengler to put his faith aside and try desperately to forget his heritage. After fighting in the Great War, he’s wounded and turns instead to law enforcement in his tiny Bavarian hometown. There, he falls under the spell of the fledgling Nazi Party. He joins the Party in patriotic fervour and becomes a Lieutenant of Police and Schutzstaffel (SS).<\/p>\n

In the course of his duties as policeman, Konrad offends a powerful Nazi official who starts an SS investigation. War breaks out. When he joins the Police Battalions, he’s sent to Poland and witnesses there firsthand the atrocities being committed upon his fellow Jews.<\/p>\n

Unknown to Konrad, the SS investigators have discovered his origins and follow him into Poland. Arrested and sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Konrad is forced to face what it means to be a Jew and fight for survival. Will his friends on the outside, his wife and lawyer, be enough to counter the might of the Nazi machine? \"Read<\/a><\/p>\n

GENRE: Historical: Holocaust\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Word Count: 156, 793<\/p>\n

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\"Ascension<\/a>Book 2: Maelstrom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Never underestimate the enemy…<\/em><\/p>\n

Konrad Wengler survived his brush with the death camps of Nazi Germany. Now, reinstated as a police officer in his Bavarian hometown despite being a Jew, he throws himself back into his work, seeking to uncover evidence that will remove a corrupt Nazi party official.<\/p>\n

The Gestapo have their own agenda and, despite orders from above to eliminate this troublesome Jewish policeman, they hide Konrad in the Totenkopf (Death’s Head) Division of the Waffen-SS. In a fight to survive in the snowy wastes of Russia while the tide of war turns against Germany, Konrad experiences tank battles, ghetto clearances, partisans, and death camps (this time as a guard), as well as the fierce battles where his Division is badly outnumbered and on the defence.<\/p>\n

Through it all, Konrad strives to live by his conscience and resist taking part in the atrocities happening all around him. He still thinks of himself as a policeman, but his desire to bring the corrupt Nazi official to justice seems far removed from his present reality. If he is to find the necessary evidence against his enemy, he must first survive<\/em>…\"Read<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Ascension<\/a><\/p>\n

Book 3: D\u00e4mmerung<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Konrad Wengler is captured and sent from one Soviet prison camp to another. Even hearing the war has come to an end makes no difference until he’s arrested as a Nazi Party member. In jail, Konrad refuses to defend himself for things he’s guilty of and should be punished for. Will his be an eye-for-an-eye life sentence, or leniency in regard of the good he tried to do once he learned the truth?\"Read<\/a><\/p>\n

Genre: Historical: Holocaust\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Word Count: 153, 405<\/p>\n

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