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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.
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...
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.
by R. H. S. “Putzi” Unheard Witness. by Ernst Hanfstaengl. Lippincott. 317 pp. $4.95. “Putzi’s” memories of life with Hitler—told to a dictaphone and then “orchestrated” by Brian Connell—is a jewel of a book: costume jewelry, of course, but, thanks to Mr. Connell’s ghostly craftsmanship, it may well have enduring value as a historical oddity.
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. An urbane Harvard-educated German, Putzi was living in Germany in 1922 when he first heard Hitler speak in Munich.
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