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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.
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (* 2. Februar 1887 in München; † 6. November 1975 ebenda) war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Geschäftsmann, Kunsthändler, politischer Aktivist und Politiker.
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.
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.
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.
For here is a deliciously revealing self-portrait of the most ridiculous of all the Führer’s hangerson. Ernst Hanfstaengl—he is still alive and back in his old Munich villa—is a well-born Bavarian, with an American mother and a pre-1914 Harvard education.
This highly personal memoir by one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates during the Nazi rise to power delves into the mind and character of the...
Sep 7, 2020 · This highly personal memoir by one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates during the Nazi rise to power delves into the mind and character of the man responsible for more death and destruction than any person in history.
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.
