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Defendants: Hans and Erna Haupt, Walter and Lucille Froehling, Otto and Kate Wergin. The men were stolid, pale, the women red-eyed from weeping, as the indictment against them was read: that they had "adhered to" an enemy of the U.S. by aiding Herbert Hans Haupt, one of the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs captured last summer by the FBI, tried by military court (six, including Haupt, later were executed...
...show that Herbert Haupt (son of Hans and Erna, nephew of Walter and Lucille) was an enemy, U.S. attorneys summoned to the witness stand Ernest Peter Burger, one of the two saboteurs who tattled on the others to save their own skins. To Americans who think of spies in terms of the movie-made breed of sinister villain, Ernest Burger was a distinct surprise. His grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem...
...seven co-saboteurs, including Haupt, attended a "sabotage school" at Brandenburg, near Berlin, graduated, were then U-boated to America. "We were to harm, wherever possible, all aluminum production in the United States. . . . The intent was to do the worst possible damage in this country. Our exact assignment was to damage aluminum plants of the Alcoa Company in Tennessee, California and Oregon, and to damage rail lines between these plants and war-production centers...
...Haupt was instructed by his superiors in Germany: ". . . to get employment in an optical concern ... to get inside information about optical companies." (A Chicago optical company for which Haupt worked prior to his flight to Germany did subcontracting work on the secret Norden bombsight.) Haupt also was instructed "to register for the draft as soon as possible ... he was to explain his absence from America by saying he was in Mexico...
...didn't like Haupt, but ... he had been given the Iron Cross for carrying out an [earlier] assignment. After that Haupt was all right with...