Word: valtin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the U.S., he cut loose with a Jan Valtin horror story of Mexican beisbol. Mickey recalled the first time he saw Mexico City's Nuevo Laredo Park. At first he wondered why it looked so familiar; then he realized he had seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell...
German-born Richard Julius Hermann Krebs ("Jan Valtin") has been under fire again-this time real fire. In 1941, after publication of his autobiographical Out of the Night, U.S. leftists damned him as a former Gestapo agent (he said he had joined to bore from within) and a tattletale Communist who had owned to some strange deeds before his apostasy. Plain citizens began to wonder whether he was a fraud, a martyr or a marvel...
...Corporal Valtin's job in the 24th was gathering Joe Blow stories to be sent to U.S. hometown papers. Much of Children of Yesterday reads like an extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...
Major Alexander P. (Air Power) de Seversky; Jan (Out of the Night) Valtin; John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson...
Born. To Pfc. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 39, ham-handed expose writer (Out of the Night), onetime Gestapo and Ogpu agent; and his second wife, Abigail Harris Krebs, 21: their second child, second son; in Danbury, Conn. Name: Eric Alan. Weight...