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i IN EMPLOY OF STATE DEPARTMENT ACCORDING TO WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT. OFFICIAL COMMENT REFUSED, (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 28. ' Dr Ernst Hanfstaengl, a former Nazi Press chief and an intimate of Hitler, is now employed by the State Department, says the United Press of America’s Washington correspondent. The State Department refuses to comment, but observers at Washington assume that he is acting in an advisory capacity. Dr Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard University in 1909. He was in the United States during the Great War, but later went to Germany and played a prominent part in Hitler’s rise, till 1937, when he left for Switzerland. He was interned in England in 1939 and later was transferred to a Canadian internment camp. Details of his release are secret. The North American Newspaper Association says Dr Hanfstaengl is in the pbsitioh of a man turning State’s evidence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 4
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152FORMER NAZI Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 4
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