Word: spanknoebel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Federal Government was still looking for Heinz Spanknoebel, accused of operating as an agent of the German Government without notifying the State Department (TIME, Nov. 6, 13), it was announced from Berlin that Col. Edwin Emerson of New York would officially represent the Nazi Party in the U. S., a position which Spanknoebel had pretended to. Col. Emerson, oldtime newspaperman, wrote propaganda from Germany which was distributed to English-speaking troops during the War. Simultaneously another Hitlerite arrived in the U. S. He was Captain Georg Schmitt, who will tour the country consolidating the U. S. members...
...Heinz Spanknoebel, a pert young man with a shock of hair, came to live in the U. S. three years ago. A Seventh Day Adventist minister, he left his wife and children in Wurzburg, set up in Detroit as a photograph finisher. He made no attempt to become naturalized, and has always boasted of himself as "one of the original Nazis." With the accession of Chancellor Hitler, Heinz Spanknoebel was appointed head of the U. S. Nazis by Dr. Ley of the Nazi Foreign Propaganda Bureau in Hamburg. Mounting foreign protests, and the dismal failure of Nazi propaganda in foreign...
...Manhattan meeting of leaders of the United German Societies early last week, the Ridder Brothers, proprietors of the New York Staats-Zeitung and the New Yorker Herold, influential U. S. German-language dailies, rose to charge Nazi Spanknoebel with attempting to dictate to their papers, charged that German Day was about to become a Hitler Day celebration. The audience jeered. A Dr. Griebl attempted to hit Bernard Ridder. Somebody twice pulled the chair out from under the Jewish treasurer, and a delegation of the United Societies Party wound up in City Hall to hear a riot act read to them...
Freed for once from the embarrassments of his own campaign (see p. 21) the Mayor was superb. He stuck out his great jaw and roared questions at Herr Spanknoebel till the latter cringed in embarrassment. In random efforts to pronounce his name he called him "Spanknoobel," "Spanknoodle" and once "Stoopnagel...
...days later the entire matter was threshed out in City Hall again, but by this time Heinz Spanknoebel had disappeared. The Federal Government started a search for him. The Ridder Brothers and other witnesses testified that he and other "Storm Troopers" had terrorized German-American societies, forced out their Jewish members...