Word: vierecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fish's memory went dead. The gangling, trumpet-tongued Congressman was on the witness stand in Washington, called there to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, veteran Nazi propaganda agent. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. Because he had once denied knowing Agent Viereck, Hill himself was tried for perjury a few weeks ago, had been sentenced to two-to-six years in jail. He took it like...
...served as handy man of a propaganda ring managed by Viereck and Prescott Dennett, Washington publicist...
...Fish had introduced him to Viereck, after Fish had held a long conference with the Nazi agent in Fish's private office...
...Hitler is exterminating the German identity as well as attempting to kill off believers in opposing ways of life," Viereck maintained. He added that Hitler makes those opposing his ambitions his cannon targets, while those who follow him become his cannon fodder...
...line with his views on totalitarian issues, Viereck holds a certain reverence for the great figures in American history, past and present. Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who rose to become Secretary of State under President Hayes, is his particular idol. Viereck's book is dedicated to Schurz, as proof that the same German type that is misled in Europe can become an integral part of the American national pattern if the emotional environs of the old country are removed...