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PROPAGANDA GALORE
A Comprehensive Survey of the Congressional
Investigation
By BERNARD POSTAL
II’PING the mask of secrecy off the
subversive and illegal activities of
the swarm of Nazi agents and their
the Congressional Committee Inves
ting Nazi Propaganda completed the
shington phase of its searching probe
presenting to a startled and outraged
•ion the sensational facts of the wide-
, ,d ramifications of Hitlerite propa-
ta in the United States. Evidence pre-
idy adduced by unofficial investigators
published in the Jewish and Anglo-
. ish press was given official standing
placed in the record when for three
- a galaxy of witnesses revealed under
h by what means and through what
mnels the private and official emissaries
Hitler are spreading the gospel of hate
i bigotry throughout the United States.
See front cover.)
During the first day’s testimony the
mmittee was given facts and figures
king Dr. Hans Luther, the German am-
ssador, and Dr. Otto Kiep, former Ger-
CARL M. WEIDMAN
He revealed unauthorized
use of Henry Ford’s name.
man consul general in New York, to the
publication of anti-Semitic pamphlets.
1 be Rev. brands Gross, a retired Catholic
f Perth Amboy, New Jersey, de-
red that he had published a pamphlet
entit i Justice to Hungary, Germany and
Austria,' 100 copies of which had been
e German embassy for 70 cents.
; hen pressed for payment of the printing
wrote to the printer referring to
‘■ orrc pondence in my possession by
1 ;:i; h the proof is established that in pub-
my books Ambassador Dr. Luther
sponsor, financial backer and pro-
Gross also asserted that before
pblet was published Dr. Kiep gave
bin s\- fifty-dollar bills.
Gtkey, a partner in the New York
hrm of Carl Byoir Associates, ad-
T bat Dr. Kiep paid $4,000 “to ob-
‘blicity in this country” of anti-
tatements. Carl Byoir Associates,
^ead, Carl Byoir is a Jew, it was
gets $6,000 a month on a con-
h the German Tourist Informa-
vice for “giving advice, counsel and
ogether material for travel infor-
Out of that $6,000 monthly
-ey declared, George Sylvester
Nazi apologist, receives $1,000
and $750 in commissions.
the
Under grilling by former Senator J. W.
Hardwick, counsel to the Committee,
Reinhold Walter, national leader of the
Friends of New Germany, identified cor
respondence linking German diplomatic of
ficials in this country to the importation
of German films for propaganda use. Wal
ter Kappe, editor of the Deutsche Zeitung.
testified to having written a letter to Ma
jor Powell of the Silver Shirts bidding for
their support. Fritz Gissibl, Walter’s pre
decessor. asserted he had distributed Nazi
propaganda to various chapters of the
1 riends of New Germany. Representative
Carl M. Weidman of Michigan, a member
of the Committee, inserted in the record
documents showing that the Nazis had
used the name of Henry Ford in an unau
thorized anti-Semitic book.
A number of letters from the Nazi
propaganda bureau in Germany to Heinz
Spanknoebcl, one-time chief of Nazi ac
tivities here, were introduced. One of these
letters discussed an expected shipment of
Nazi propaganda leaflets to the United
States. Another letter by Spanknoebcl
proved the definite anti-Semitic character
of the Nazi movement in this country.
Several other letters indicated that German
consuls in this country, notably Wilhelm
Tannenberg in Chicago. Reinhold Frcytag
in St. Louis and Dr. R. Kempe in New
York, were directly interested in the activi
ties of the Friends of New Germany and
helped Nazi leaders to get prospective
members. Kappe told the Committee that
Spanknoebel informed him that his office
“leans closely on the Consulate-General.”
Carl Mensing, a high official of the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company in New
York, was identified as one of a trial board
which tried Nazi members in this country
to determine whether they had been faith
ful to the organization. Other testimony
showed that Nazi propaganda coming
from Germany was not mailed or sent
through ordinary customs channels nor
even entrusted to diplomatic pouches but
came in on German ships.
Even more sensational evidence was read
into the record at the third and last day
of the hearing. Henry O. Spier, secretary
of the United German Societies, read a let
ter from William Dudley Pelley, missing
chieftain of the Silver Shirts, in which he
offered to merge his organization with the
Nazi movement. In this letter Pelley in
formed Spier that the Silver Shirts en
joyed the confidence of the highest public
officials in Washington and that “there are
Silver Shirts reporting to us from the
closest ranks about the President.” Pelley
recommended not to try to make an out-
and-out Hitler organization in this coun
try because “it might be misinterpreted to
mean an attempt to bring the United States
under a foreign chancellorship. The adroit
thing to do is to let a spontaneous Ameri
can movement be bom here that has exact
ly similar principles and precepts to Hit
ler's.”
Paul Hans Alexander von Lilienfeld
Toal, an Estonian in the employ of the
North German Lloyd Line in Philadelphia
but formerly associated with Pelley, re
vealed that he had been the contact m«n
between the Silver Shirts and Nazi groups.
He said he had expected help from R. T.
Kessemeir, North German Lloyd passenger
manager in Philadelphia. Toal also admit
ted that he was responsible for the circula
tion by the Silver Shirts of the story that
President Roosevelt was descended from
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