The Archive · 1941

Himmler's Spy

Under Nazism Germany's diplomatic representation" has increased alarmingly. The New York Consulate, example. now carries 110 on pay-roll. In pre-Nazi da; it never had'more than 39. The San Francisco office has 28. It used to have eight!

The personalities directing Hitler's invasion are typical of Nazi agents throughout the world.

Number One man is Captain Fritz Wiedemann, sinister-looking confidant of the Fuehrer, and his commanding officer in the last war, who directs Nazi interests from San Francisco.

iedemann selected a post on the Vest coast because he felt it w gy ior Nazi penetration Herbert Scholz, consul in Bos n intimate friend of Himmler keeps watch on the activities of other Nazi diplomats as a favour for the Gestapo chief.

Tall, handsome Wilhelm Ta berg, economic adviser at the German Embassy, and Schachts mouthpiece in America, has the special assignment of making American businessmen appeasement minded by dangling post-War deals with Germany before their eyes.

Baron Edgar Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim. World War U-boat commander, es American naval operations in the Gulf of Mexico from his post as New Orleans consul. Official propagandist for the Nazis is Dr. Colin Ross, who interprets American reactions to his friend the Fuehrer.

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