Word: thermann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most uneasy diplomat in the Western Hemisphere last week was Germany's Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann. Before his eyes one of the Nazis' neatest, costliest propaganda machines was being turned into junk. What was worse, it seemed likely that he would shortly be back in Berlin where he would have to explain what went wrong...
...bird he was after was not Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, but one Gottfried Sandstede, who was officially listed as head of the Embassy's press office. Investigator Damonte had good reason to suspect that he was head of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo in Argentina, that the Ambassador himself took orders from Gottfried Sandstede. His name was on a list of 36 Germans wanted for questioning, but Gottfried Sandstede claimed diplomatic immunity...
...days he ran about, trying to use pull to keep him out of Deputy Damonte's clutches. Then he drew all of his money from his bank and after a violent quarrel with Ambassador von Thermann, who wanted him to face the music, went into hiding. As soon as Investigator Damonte learned that Sandstede was on the run he ordered his arrest. Police were posted at his house and at the German Embassy. Pickets stood guard along the roads leading from Buenos Aires. A cordon was stretched around the airport...
...suspicious looking car tried to pass. The police halted it, arrested Karl Heinz Sandstede, brother of the fugitive. Thinking they had the right man, they relaxed their watch. Early the next morning Gottfried Sandstede boarded a Condor plane for Brazil. As he arrived in Rio de Janeiro Ambassador von Thermann announced blandly that Herr Sandstede had been recalled to Berlin to report on anti-German activities in Argentina...
...Though dissolved by Presidential decree of May 15, 1939, the Nazi Party continues to operate in Argentina; 2) It is organized on military lines and permeates the country with cells; 3) The German Embassy participates directly in Nazi activities. Promised was a fuller report on Ambassador von Thermann, containing evidence that he received money from ostensible German "welfare" agencies, that he used the money for ends "foreign to his diplomatic character." As the four most influential newspapers in Buenos Aires (La Nación, La Prensa, El Mundo, Critica) issued a simultaneous demand that Acting President...