Nazi Refugee Turned Gestapo Spy - The Life of Hans Wesemann, 1895-1971

Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an anti-Nazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad? Hans Wesemann, a veteran of World War I and a successful journalist, fled his native Germany in 1933 after writing a number of anti-Nazi articles. Once in Britain, he found life difficult and dull, and thus, for a number of reasons, agreed to furnish the German Embassy in London with information about other refugees. Inevitably, Wesemann became ensnared in his own treachery and suffered the consequences.

During the volatile and experimental years of the Weimar Republic, Wesemann applied his urbanity and cynicism to the analysis of politics, high culture, and popular beliefs. He dared not remain in Germany once Hitler came to power. Once working as a Gestapo agent, he was implicated in the kidnapping of a German exile onto German territory and spent considerable time in a Swiss prison. Although he was eventually freed and able to join his fianc^D'ee in Venezuela, his unsavory past would continue to haunt him in South America and later in the United States,

List of contents

Ambivalent Youth, 1895-1932
Enigmatic Exile, March 1933-August 1934
Emigre Turncoat, September 1934-February 1935
The Abduction of Berthold Jacob, March 1935
Gestapo Activity Abroad, 1933-1935
The Suspicious Deaths of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm
Refugee Reaction to the Jacob Kidnapping
Settlement By Arbitration? May-September 1935
The Trial and Its Aftermath, 1936-1938
Latin American Interlude, 1938-1941
Internment, 1942-1945
Resisting Deportation to Germany, 1946-1948
Epilogue, 1948-1971

About the author

James J. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes

Product details

• Authors: James J. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes, Barnes James J., Barnes Patience P.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2001
• EAN: 9780275971243
• ISBN: 978-0-275-97124-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, military history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, Biography: historical, political and military, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater