Word: niedenfuhr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though General Bruno is pure fiction, he has his counterpart in mysterious General Gunther Niedenfuhr, onetime German Military Attache in Argentina, subsequently Military Attache in Brazil. About the time that General Bruno was getting his mechanized army set for battle, General Niedenfuhr was bounced back to Berlin with other Axis diplomats in South America. But, like his comic-strip colleague, the General had done some good work for his bosses while in Brazil. Last week Brazilians were beginning to learn what lay behind his ingratiating fagade...
...General Niedenfuhr had organized an efficient espionage and propaganda organization. Down in the south of Brazil, where an estimated million people of German descent live, he had set about laying the foundation for an effective fifth-column force. Though he did not have the full equipment his fictional colleague enjoys, he organized "shooting clubs" in nearly every good-sized town, used yacht clubs, youth organizations, possibly even a glider school as other fronts. Given time, some Brazilians thought, he might have raised a force of several hundred thousand...
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