Nazi refugee turned Gestapo spy : the life of Hans Wesemann, 1895-1971 / / James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes

• Autore: Barnes James J
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.54/8743
• Soggetto topico: Spies - Germany; Espionage, German - Great Britain - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service - Germany
• Altri autori: BarnesPatience P
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 AMBIVALENT YOUTH, 1895- 1932 -- 2 ENIGMATIC EXILE, MARCH 1933- A UGUST 1934 -- 3 ÉMIGRÉ TURNCOAT, SEPTEMBER 1934- F EBRUARY 1935 -- 4 THE ABDUCTION OF BERTHOLD JACOB, MARCH 1935 -- 5 GESTAPO ACTIVITY ABROAD, 1933- 1935 -- 6 THE SUSPICIOUS DEATHS OF DORA FABIAN AND MATHILDE WURM -- 7 REFUGEE REACTION TO THE JACOB KIDNAPPING -- 8 SETTLEMENT BY ARBITRATION? MAY- SEPTEMBER 1935 -- 9 THE TRIAL AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1936- 1938 -- 10 LATIN AMERICAN INTERLUDE, 1938- 1941 -- 11 INTERNMENT, 1942-1945 -- 12 RESISTING DEPORTATION TO GERMANY, 1946- 1948 -- EPILOGUE, 1948-1971 -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an anti-Nazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad? Hans Wesemann, a veteran of World War I and a successful journalist, fled his native Germany in 1933 after writing a number of anti-Nazi articles. Once in Britain, he found life difficult and dull, and thus, for a number of reasons, agreed to furnish the German Embassy in London with information about other refugees. Inevitably, Wesemann became ensnared in his own treachery and suffered the consequences. During the volatile and experimental years of the Weimar Republic, Wesemann applied his urbanity and cynicism to the analysis of politics, high culture, and popular beliefs. He dared not remain in Germany once Hitler came to power. Once working as a Gestapo agent, he was implicated in the kidnapping of a German exile onto German territory and spent considerable time in a Swiss prison. Although he was eventually freed and able to join his fianc DEGREESD'ee in Venezuela, his unsavory past would continue to haunt him in South America and later in the United States,
• Titolo autorizzato: Nazi refugee turned Gestapo spy
• ISBN: 0-313-07352-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962364503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II