5 January 10, 1947 . It was the year. Nazi sleeper cells had been given a deadline. Control must be wrested from local authorities. Inroads into politicians and police had been accomplished with help from mafia counterparts. Brown-Shirts of the nineteen-thirties had been replaced by men in silk suits. Proving most difficult was control of local media. Miami existed secludedly; near the end of the world as conceived by continental Americans. Isolation compelled a frontier me

4 December 1945 . Johnson Billie was the older brother of Franklin. The younger sibling hadn’t been seen for months. Life in the Everglades was as difficult as any place on Earth, but the combined Seminole-Miccosukee tribe had met its challenges. Johnson was married and already began his family. He saw a similar life-path for Franklin and Sarah. Natives approached marriage and family in a natural and harmonious manner. Relationships were divinely ordained. Paramount was the

3 August 1, 1945 . General Hochstühl and Colonel Von Unterscheisse had been residents of Miami barely ten days. German precision coupled with slave-like demands on local workman brought the warehouse to near completion. There was no time to waste. If progress lingered, money wouldn’t last. It was imperative to start generating income from whatever sources possible; legitimate or not. The Germans stood on the concrete warehouse floor soaking in satisfaction associated with a

2 The four Nazis continued toward town. Their destination was a newly built warehouse at the corner of Southeast 2 nd Avenue and Northeast 17 th Street. Still void of purpose, they envisioned a future of receiving and storing weapons and ammunition. The Nazis who escaped to Argentina were to move operations north, into Columbia. Shipments of arms would originate there. Receiving shipments in the sparsely populated area offered a logistical, war-time wet-dream. Blunt were

1 July 21, 1945 . The Everglades was arguably the most natural ecosystem on Earth. Through every assault upon the landscape, its resiliency proved superior. Balance, as intended by God, was the manner in which the universe thrived. Attacks by apex predators shifted prey continually across the landscape. Constant movement was the only manner guaranteeing bountiful futures. The city of Miami was bracketed to the north by a prisoner of war camp at Bal Harbor; as well as one in