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...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...
...Night ($3.50), Jan Valtin's sensational revelations of a Communist undercoverman, which, bristling with arson, murder, strikes, kidnappings, false passports, showed that the Russian fifth column was coterminous with the globe...
Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was pardoned by California's Governor Culbert L. Olson from a 15-year-old sentence for assault, for which he spent three years in San Quentin. Krebs, pardoned, hopes to win U.S. citizenship, escape deportation...