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The Felix Kersten Files
Felix Kersten was the mysterious, personal physical therapist of SS commander Heinrich Himmler. He said he saved the lives of tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Was he a saint or a devil in disguise — or both at once? Who was this Himmler’s janus-faced Finnish masseur and why can’t documentary filmmaker Arto Koskinen stop following him? The Felix Kersten Files podcast is based on Arto Koskinen’s experiences in making the film ‘Who was Felix Kersten?’ in the late 1990s. The film was meant to tell the story of a good and forgotten Finnish masseur, but the filmmakers soon...
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Episode 12. Arto Koskinen and John Bernstein try to find new material on Felix Kersten and the movements of the white buses in Sweden’s national archives. But time is running out, and Koskinen wants answers. We also hear from Jan Wellmann, John Bernstein, Boris Salomon and Jos Verlaan. Who was...
Published 02/26/19
Episode 11. Was Walter Schellenberg, the intelligent, pedantic, and creative chief of the SS’s counter-espionage division, behind Kersten’s act? Arto Koskinen delves into Felix Kersten’s relationship with Elisabeth Lüben, his former landlady’s daughter, who Kersten often called his sister. We...
Published 02/26/19
Episode 10. What happened in Gut Harzwald? And who did the Swedish Red Cross’s white bus save there in 1945? Dutch journalist Jos Verlaan talks about Kersten’s connection to Holland’s nationalist socialist aristocrats and the Oxford group. Arto Koskinen and John Bernstein make findings in the...
Published 02/26/19
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