Word: valtin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valtin, 1941's best-selling tattletale (Out of the Night), German-born ex-agent for both the Ogpu and Gestapo, undesirable-alien parolee, passed his draft physical and was ordered to arms...
...again was in-again-out-again Jan Valtin, 1941's best-selling tell-all (Out of the Night). The German-born ex-agent for both the Gestapo and Ogpu (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941, et seq.), onetime California jailbird who was pardoned just before Pearl Harbor, then jugged on Ellis Island six months ago as an undesirable alien, was freed on parole, faded back into the night...
...Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out of the Night), imprisoned by the Justice Department for deportation to Germany at war's end; Author Waldo ("I love Argentina. . . .") Frank, who gave a repeat performance of the mauling he received in Kentucky's Harlan County in 1932 by getting attacked by young Fascists in Buenos Aires...
Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Richard Anderson, alias Richard Peterson, alias Richard Williams, alias Rudolf Heller, alias Otto Melchior, alias Jan Valtin was born in Germany 37 years ago. Last week the Justice Department ordered him sent back there after...
...author of the best-selling Out of the Night, which he wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, hulking, gap-toothed Richard Krebs had shocked U.S. readers with his offhand account of a lurid, turbulent life as an agent of both the Ogpu and Gestapo. He later admitted he had added the experiences of other men "to make the book as effective as possible," was roundly denounced by Communists as a faker. But his fame was his undoing: he admitted that he had once before been deported by the U.S., that he had committed perjury -both grounds for deportation...