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Describing himself as the victim of Nazi political persecution, Ernst (Putzi) Hanfstaengl '09, who once served as Hitler's foreign press agent, filed claims for compensation amounting to $16,150 in Munich yesterday...
...Hanfstaengl said he was basing his claims on the debts he incurred while living in England and Switzerland during the war. He said that he had been forced to flee Germany when, following his discharge as foreign propagandist, the Nazis marked him for murder...
...also written in parts for himself and Dr. Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime Hitler aide, who speaks in defense of the Germans. The scene of this symposium (which Author Franklin unnecessarily assures the reader is "entirely imaginary") is a Virginia hunting lodge; the time is 1943, on the eve of the invasion of Italy...
There, as refugees, come Willy Wiede-meyer, old friend of Adolf Hitler, and his wife and daughters. Fat Willy, a character who is in some ways a dead ringer for "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, plans to sell his inside story of the Hitler household to the U.S. occupation authorities. Price: immunity for himself and family. But Willy falls into the hands of a cynical U.S. war correspondent posing as a captain, who wants the story but has no power to save Willy. Worse, a gang of fanatical SS men, still at large, moves into the valley and goes gunning for Willy...
Ernst ("Putzi'') Hanfstaengl, Harvard graduate and ex-pianist-in-waiting to the ex-Führer, prepared to return to the fatherland after six years in British custody. Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell announced that Putzi, who last saw Germany in 1937, was not on the Allies' list of war criminals...