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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.
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (* 2. Februar 1887 in München; † 6. November 1975 ebenda) war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Geschäftsmann, Kunsthändler, politischer Aktivist und Politiker.
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.
According to Nazi Kurt Ludecke, there once existed a document signed by S.A. Leader Karl Ernst-- who supposedly set the fire and was later murdered by fellow Nazis -- which implicated Goering, Goebbels, and Hanfstaengl in the conspiracy.
Jun 13, 2005 · The author of the study - dubbed Hitler's Bedtime Story by an enthusiastic Roosevelt - was Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, former personal pianist and confidant of Hitler, and perhaps the one person outside Germany who really knew what made the Führer tick.
The urbane Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09 was Hitler's crony and foreign press chief during the Führer's ascendancy, and played the piano for him soothingly. He later fell out of favor and fled to the United States, where he worked against the Nazis for President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04.
Aug 1, 2011 · Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer. Paperback – August 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.
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Dec 12, 1978 · 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,"...
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.
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.