Nazi Refugee Turned Gestapo Spy

The Life of Hans Wesemann, 1895-1971

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an anti-Nazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad? Hans Wesemann, a veteran of World War I and a successful journalist, fled his native Germany in 1933 after writing a number of anti-Nazi articles. Once in Britain, he found life difficult and dull, and thus, for a number of reasons, agreed to furnish the German Embassy in London with information about other refugees. Inevitably, Wesemann became ensnared in his own treachery and suffered the consequences.During the volatile and experimental years of the Weimar Republic, Wesemann applied his urbanity and cynicism to the analysis of politics, high culture, and popular beliefs. He dared not remain in Germany once Hitler came to power. Once working as a Gestapo agent, he was implicated in the kidnapping of a German exile onto German territory and spent considerable time in a Swiss prison. Although he was eventually freed and able to join his fianc^D'ee in Venezuela, his unsavory past would continue to haunt him in South America and later in the United States,

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Utgivningsdatum2001-02-28
Mått156 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780275971243

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JAMES J. BARNES is Professor of History at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He has collaborated with Patience Barnes on several articles and volumes to include Free Trade in Books: A Study of the London book Trade since 1800, Authors, Publishers and Politicians: the Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1851-54, and Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain and America, 1930-1939.PATIENCE P. BARNES is a Research Associate at Wabash College./e She has coauthored numerous articles and books with James J. Barnes to include James Vincent Murphy: Translator and Interpreter of Fascist Europe 1880-1946 and Private and Confidential: Letters from British Ministers in Washington to the Foreign Secretaries in London, 1844-1867.

Ambivalent Youth, 1895-1932Enigmatic Exile, March 1933-August 1934Emigre Turncoat, September 1934-February 1935The Abduction of Berthold Jacob, March 1935Gestapo Activity Abroad, 1933-1935The Suspicious Deaths of Dora Fabian and Mathilde WurmRefugee Reaction to the Jacob KidnappingSettlement By Arbitration? May-September 1935The Trial and Its Aftermath, 1936-1938Latin American Interlude, 1938-1941Internment, 1942-1945Resisting Deportation to Germany, 1946-1948Epilogue, 1948-1971