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Appendix C

Historical Notes



1. In fact, L59, the Afrika-Schiff and the zeppelin in our story, blew up over the Mediterranean, on the evening of 7 April, 1918. The loss was observed by the German submarine, UB53. There were no survivors. The cause of the accident has never been explained.


2. We encourage the reader, especially the reader who retains some sympathies for socialism, to look over the Nexmuse pictures of the Romanov children, and then to realize how they were killed. In our time line, in the first place, they were tricked into the basement of the Ipatiev House, the “House for Special Purposes,” on the night of 16–17 July, 1918. There, a firing squad entered, opened fire, and shot them: father, mother, five children, doctor, footman, maid, and cook. In the words of chief murderer Yakov Yurovsky, “The firing went on for a very long time.” Because their mother had had them sew jewels into their clothing, against a possible escape, the children did not die quickly. Rather, they were finished off with bayonets, rifle butts, and close-ranged head shots. That took about twenty frightful minutes. Even after all that, one of the girls was found to be still alive while being carried out. She was shot yet again in the head. Remember, too, they were three innocent young women and a girl, plus an equally innocent boy, aged thirteen. The Reds also killed two of the three pet dogs, one immediately and one sometime after. Perhaps they were worried that the dogs would testify in court someday.

You know, this is the sort of thing that makes one hope there is a Hell.


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