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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanfstaengl Was Interned in Routine Manner, Son Holds | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...LONDON-Putzi Hanfstaengl, Harvard educated, piano playing former Nazi press chief, and for many years an intimate of Hitler, was interned by British authorities today...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/3/1939 | See Source »

...Bemelmans tales will bear reading to little tots. One such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home-brew | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Egon L. S. Hanfstaengl, son of Ernst F. "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09, one-time personal pianist to Adolf Hitler, and Nazi press chief, may enter Harvard in the fall, it was revealed yesterday in the thirtieth anniversary report for the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANSTAENGL'S SON MAY COME HERE AS STUDENT | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Year ago the New Republic described bullocky Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime Nazi publicist, as "Hitler's boy friend." Last week Putzi, exiled in London, lost a libel suit against Selfridge & Co., department store which sold his secretary a copy containing the article. The judge, commenting, "Hanfstaengl will leave this court with as clean a character as . . . any man could have," ruled that nobody had libeled Putzi, assessed him the costs of the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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