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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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 ...
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.
Aug 1, 2011 · Ernst Hanfstaengl was born in 1887 to German and American parents. He was educated at Harvard, but eventually moved to Germany, where he met a young Hitler at the very beginning of...
