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...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) burly (220 Ib.) recruit with a mouth-filling name reports this week to the Air Corps station at Maxwell Field, Ala. The recruit: 20-year-old Egon Ludwig Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, U. S.-born son of Harvardman "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playing pal of Adolf Hitler. Father "Putzi," who jumped from the German frying pan just in time, landed in a Canadian concentration camp. His son, a U. S. citizen, left his Harvard class for a three-year hitch in the Air Corps...
Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl '09, former Nazi foreign press chief and piano playing friend of Hitler, is being held in "protective custody" in a Canadian concentration camp, according to his son, Egon Hanfstaengl '43, who yesterday said that he had recently received letters from his father...
...Hanfstaengl is allowed to write 27 lines a week from his prison "overlooking a lake" somewhere in Canada. Apparently well taken care of, the prisoner complained of boredom and has asked his son to send him extra clothes because of the severe Canadian climate. Hanfstaengl was transferred from England sometime in July...
...Hanfstaengl said that his father was doing historical research in Scotland when the war broke out. Hanfstaengl senior had hoped to come to America in a few months, but he was interned along with all other German citizens living in Great Britain, according...
...Putzi Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard in 1909, and was the subject of a great deal of comment when his offer of a gift of $10,000 to Harvard was rejected by the University. At that time he was still an intimate of Adolf Hitler, but he fell out with the Nazis a few years...