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Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a German American businessman and close friend of Adolf Hitler. He eventually fell out of favour with Hitler and defected from Nazi Germany to the United States. He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt and was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes.
Ernst Sedgewiek Hanfstaengl (or Hanfy or Putzi, as he was more usually called), like Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, was another German-American at the core of the rise of Hitlerism.
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Hitler. : Ernst Hanfstaengl. Arcade Publishing, 1994 - Biography & Autobiography - 308 pages. This highly personal memoir by one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates during the Nazi rise to...
Between June 1942 and September 1944, Ernst ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl was employed by the Roosevelt administration as an intelligence analyst and psychological warfare adviser.
On 30 June 1942, Ernst 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl arrived in the USA at the direct behest of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who intended to use this ex-nazi as an intelligence operative and psychological-warfare adviser.
Ernst Hanfstaengl (Putzi) was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler during his political climb, and later played a lead role in Roosevelt's top-secret project to use disinformation against the Nazis.
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Aug 1, 2011 · Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a...
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