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Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁnst hanfˈʃtɛŋl̩]; 2 February 1887 – 6 November 1975) 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.
Apr 21, 2017 · A Boston Herald headline proclaimed: “Hanfstaengl, Harvard’s Hero.”. The beneficiary of this publicity, Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl, claimed that as a result of this incident he got to know Theodore Roosevelt Jr., a fellow Harvard student and elder son of the president.
Nov 30, 2004 · Hanfstaengl's conviction was never total, however. In the years after his visit to Harvard he was to have growing misgivings about Hitler, breaking with the regime in 1937 and fleeing to...
Dec 12, 1978 · Sept. 24, 1934. Dr. Ernst F. Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a generous member of the Harvard Class of 1909 with a "perennial affection for Harvard, Boston and New England." "Hanfy," or "Putzy," as...
Feb 10, 2005 · The Hanfstaengl incident reveals a campus divided over the rising fascist regimes of the 1930s, but an administration that ultimately refrained from confronting the Nazi in their midst. HEIL...
In Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl, Confidant of Hitler, Ally of FDR (Carroll & Graf, $26), Peter Conradi, deputy foreign editor of the Sunday Times (London), tells of Putzi's visit to his twenty-fifth Harvard reunion in 1934. He offered $1,000 to create a traveling fellowship to Germany, but Harvard wanted none of it.
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Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl '09, former Nazi foreign press chief and piano playing friend of Hitler, is being held in "protective custody" in a Canadian concentration camp, according to his son,...
