ERNST
HANFSTAENGL, SWASTIKAS & NATIONAL SOCIALISM
Hanfstaengl http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.JPG
Hanfstaengl Harvard
Helped Hitler. Here's How. Franz
Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl aka Putzi, confidante of Adolf Hitler.
AKA Sedgewiek
Are Audi & VW Volkswagen emblems related to the swastika's
alphabetical symbolism?
Swastikas are
scary reminders of the National Socialist German Workers Party and
swastika fanaticism, and the "Socialist Slavery"
symbolized by the meshed S-letters of the swastika under the
NSDAP. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
The late Texas Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez strongly
objected to the Pledge of Allegiance that preceded Congressional
sessions. He compared the Pledge to the National Socialist German
Workers Party's incantation, "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" "Some
people think the Pledge comes with the Declaration of Independence.
That downgrades Thomas Jefferson." Gonzalez added that Jefferson
"would never have concocted that sort of banal recital!"
Ernst Hanfstaengl is proof that Gonzalez did not realize how right he
was. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
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A
lot of fascinating research examines how socialism has been
influenced by America and Americans. Many authors worry about a
future filled with persecution and global socialism. Those worries
have relevance today in the enormous size and scope of government in
the USA and its growing police state.
http://rexcurry.net/national-socialists-usa.html
Harvard
helped Hitler. Here's how: Harvard graduate Ernst Hanfstaengl was a
close associate of Hitler. Hanfstaengl had attended school in the
United States during the time when the United States used the
stiff-arm salute in the Pledge of Allegiance and elsewhere. The
stiff-arm salute originated from the Pledge of Allegiance, which was
written in 1892. It was the source of the salute adopted later by the
National Socialist German Workers Party, as shown in the work of the
historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
Hanfstaengl
created the infamous "Sieg Heil" chant, he spread America's
straight-arm salute in Germany, and he taught the German National
Socialist leader to use swastika-style symbolism in signatures.
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
Wikipedia
has helped to spread the news about Dr. Curry's discoveries about
Hanfstaengle, German chants, and how the German flag and its swastika
was used sometimes to represent overlapping "S" letters in
alphabetic symbolism for "socialism" under the National
Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
Recent
articles at opinioneditorials.com report on the many references to
Dr. Curry's research and discoveries on Wikipedia. Even Wikipedia
founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has publicly noted Dr.
Curry's influence on Wikipedia. Some Wikipedia writers use Dr.
Curry's work without attribution in apparent attempts to bolster
their own credibility.
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (1887
- 1975) was the only person known to have worked directly for both
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the leader of the National Socialist
German Workers' Party (NSGWP). Both of Hanfstaengl's employers
promoted national socialism, the former in America, and the latter in
Germany. Both enlarged government massively.
Hanfstaengl was
born in Germany, spent his early years in Germany, and then moved to
the United States and attended Harvard University, graduating in
1909. While at Harvard he participated in patriotic events, played
the piano, and composed football songs. He resided in America until
1921, when he returned to Germany.
National socialism had been
promoted in the USA from 1888 by Edward Bellamy, author of the book
"Looking Backward." Roosevelt was so impressed by Bellamy's
book that Roosevelt wrote "Looking Forward" to impose
Bellamy's national socialism in America.
Bellamy's book was
an international bestseller and was tranlsated into every major
language including German, Russian and Chinese. Clubs sprang up in
the USA and worldwide for touting the book's ideas. The Bellamy dogma
influenced socialists worldwide, including the countries of the
socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million
dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under
the Peoples' Republic of China; ~20 million under the National
Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP).
Roosevelt's
book was not an international bestseller. Roosevelt's policies
(Bellamy schemes) were imposed by law on Americans, nevertheless.
National Socialists wanted government to monopolize
education, and that scheme was supported by Roosevelt, Edward
Bellamy, and Francis Bellamy (cousin and cohort to Edward).
Francis
Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance that is chanted robotically in
many government schools (socialist schools). The Bellamys wanted
government to take over all schools and create the "industrial
army" from children to spread "military socialism."
The early Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag (1892 to
1945) was the origin of the straight-arm salute used later by the
NSGWP, as discovered by the historian Dr. Rex Curry, author of
"Pledge of Allegiance Secrets." Shocking photos are on the
web. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
By
the time Hanfstaengl was attending school in the U.S., the
straight-arm salute was used for various purposes, including the
National Anthem (the Star Spangled Banner), for school flags, and
even as a general greeting or cheer during sports events (including
Harvard football games).
About 1921, Hanfstaengl returned to
Germany and heard for the first time a speech by the leader of the
NSGWP in a beer hall. The leader of the NSGWP stated that the first
time he saw the straight-arm salute he was in a beer hall and he
described it as occurring at "about" the same time (as when
Hanfstaengl claims that Hanfstaengl heard him speak). (According to
Toland, p. 128, the first encounter was on 22 November, 1922 at the
Kindlkeller, a large L-shaped beer hall).
Of course, there
were other Germans, et cetera, who had moved to and from the United
States since 1892, where the stiff-armed salute was already used to
salute the national flag. There were also movie depictions and other
ways in which Germans would have been exposed to the early American
raised-arm gesture.
It
is possible that the Olympics adopted the American salute before the
American salute was adopted by the socialists Mussolini and Hitler.
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1c.html
Hanfstaengl
was so impressed that he became a follower of the NSGWP leader.
Hanfstaengl participated in the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.
Afterward, he sheltered the NSGWP leader in the attic of his
home in Uffing, outside of Munich.
The straight-arm salute
was not the only time that Hanfstaengl provided promotional
assistance to the the NSGWP.
Hanfstaengl wrote
Brownshirt marches based on his Harvard football songs. That is how
Hanfstaengl devised the chant of "Sieg Heil" (and "Heil
Hitler" followed?). The leader of the NSGWP was so impressed
with Hanfstaengl's style that Hanfstaengl became the unofficial piano
player at various social gatherings. One night, at the home of the
photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, he played band marches used at
halftime in American football games. He described college
cheerleanding and the deliberate whipping up of hysterical enthusiasm
and robotic chanting. He described thousands of spectators being led
in roars of, "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, rah, rah, rah!"
and about "the hypnotic effect of this sort of thing."
Hanfstaengl demonstrated on the piano how German marches could be
adapted to the buoyant American beat. The NSGWP's leader declared
enthusiastically that the same performance was needed for German
National Socialism. "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard"
became "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" Evidence for
the preceding event is provided in "Hitler: the missing years"
by Ernst Hanfstaengl (pgs 6 and 51); the author Thomas Fuchs in his
concise biography of the NSGWP leader; and by the author John Toland
in his biography of the NSGWP leader (p.135); by the author Peter
Conradi in his book "Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst
Hanfstaengl"; and in Hanfstaengl's book "Unheard Witness"
(1957). (A useful web search is for the name Hitler with "rah,
rah, rah" or "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard").
U.S.
wartime intelligence also believed the National Socialist salute may
have been copied from American cheerleaders, rather than from
Mussolini (who began using the salute while he was a popular
socialist, but decades after the salute was created in the U.S. by
the socialist Francis Bellamy and decades after the salute's
widespread use in the United States). The claim from U.S. wartime
intelligance is one of many observations in a strange psychological
profile of Adolf Hitler declassified by the CIA. The profile relies
mainly on personal views of Ernst Hanfstaengl, a best friend of the
German National Socialist leader. In the document, produced by the
Office of Strategic Services, he is known by the codename Dr
Sedgwick, said reports. The report claims of the Hitler salute: "In
1923 he adored American football marches and college songs. The 'Sieg
Heil' used in all political rallies is a direct copy of the technique
used by American football cheerleaders." And the American
football cheerleaders adopted the method from the American Pledge of
Allegiance. Cheerleaders continue to use the military salute to the
chest extended out into the stiff-arm palm-down salute.
In the
USA today, high schools and universities continue to use
out-stretched arm salutes in their alma mater songs, chanted in
unison while pointing at the school flag or emblem.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point.jpg
and http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point2.jpg
Almost no American students are aware of the history of the
Pledge of Allegiance and the similarity of some alma mater salutes to
the early American pledge salute.
Hanfstaengl helped spread
the alphabetic symbolism of the swastiika, and even influenced the
signature of the NSGWP's leader, as discovered by the historian Dr.
Rex Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets"). An autographed
photograph shows the signature of Hanfstaengl with a swastika used as
alphabetic symbolism for the first letter "H."
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
The
most that is known about the date of the photograph is "about
1934." About 1934 is when a similar alteration began in
the signature of the NSGWP's leader. "Adolf" began to
resemble one large "S" shape, evoking the swastika and it's
"S" letters for "Socialism."
Although the
swastika was an ancient symbol, Dr. Curry showed that it was also
used sometimes by German National Socialists as alphabetic symbolism,
including meshed "S" letters for their "socialism."
The leader of German National Socialism altered his own
signature to use the same stylized "S" letter for
"socialist." Similar alphabetic symbolism still shows
on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
In
1936, Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, where American athletes
continued to demonstrate the straight-arm salute to the US flag
during the National Anthem in awards ceremonies.
Eventually,
Hanfstaengl fell completely out of favor and he had to flee Germany.
In 1942 Hanfstaengl was moved from a Canadian Prisoner of War camp
and turned over to the United States. He entered the employ of
Roosevelt and advised him on the German National Socialist
leader.
Although Roosevelt helped to defeat Germany in World
War II, Roosevelt was put on the side of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and the Peoples' Republic of China. At the end of
WWII, Roosevelt helped to hand over half of Europe to the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics. After WWII, the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics and the Peoples' Republic of China went on to kill even
more millions of people than had been killed by the National
Socialist German Workers' Party.
It all shows how close the
USA came (and is still coming) to the socialist Wholecaust. Many
Americans serve as sad examples of how places like that come into
existence, grow so large, last so long, and kill so many.
Historians make their work relevant to current events. Such
stories are relevant to the fact that the present government in the
USA is anti libertarian and is out-socializing the previous
administration by more than double and growing (in social spending
ALONE). The demonic dogma of socialism, sacrifice, and self-sacrifice
is still growing all over the
world.
The Nazi salute came from the USA's
early Pledge of Allegiance which began with a military salute that
was then extended outward to point at the flag (see the discoveries
of the symbologist Dr. Rex Curry, author of “Pledge of
Allegiance Secrets”). Dr. Curry debunked the myth that it was
an ancient Roman salute, and showed that the myth came from the
Pledge of Allegiance. Only part of the story is in an “alternative”
explanation that Adolf Hitler acquired the gesture from Ernst "Putzi"
Hanfstaengel, the German national socialist press chief, a Harvard
graduate and apparent US citizen, who had “copied it from
Harvard football cheerleaders.” The missing part of the story
is that Harvard football cheerleaders copied it from the USA's pledge
of Allegiance. It also shows how the Nazi salute was gaining expanded
use in the USA beyond its use in the Pledge of Allegiance (similar to
the spread of the gesture in Germany later).
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
Dr. Rex Curry's work is supported by the book "The Third
Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American
Campuses" by Stephen H. Norwood (Cambridge University Press).
However, Norwood's book displays ignorance of the early stiff-armed
salute for the Pledge of Allegiance. The book is supposed to be a
chilling chronicle that many Americans showed enthusiasm for the
National Socialist German Workers Party. The chill would have been
bigger if Norwood had known about and discussed America's Nazi salute
and its origins in earlier American national socialism. An improved
sequel to Norwood's book could be titled "The Third Reich in
education: Complicity and Conflict on American schoolyards from 1892
in children daily from the age of six onward".
According to Norwood the "stiff-armed Nazi salute and Sieg
Heil chant" was "modeled on a gesture and a shout"
that Hanfstaengl had used as a Harvard football cheerleader (Norwood
cites Karl Dietrich Bracher, German Dictatorship, 117; Peter Conradi,
Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl,
Confidant of Hitler, Ally of FDR (New York, 2004), 45, 63). Here is a
funny point about Norwood (and other authors) and Hanfstaengl: It is
possible that both were ignorant of the Nazi gesture's origin in the
USA's Pledge of Allegiance (written in 1892). Putzi did not grow up
in the USA, so when he encountered the gesture later at Harvard, he
might not have realized it came from robotic chanting daily in
government schools for about two decades prior in the USA. Norwood,
on the other hand, is young enough that if he was educated in
government schools (socialist schools) in the USA, then he would be
ignorant about the pledge, and Norwood is similar to others who write
about the Nazi salute (other than Dr. Rex Curry), in that Norwood
failed in his research to discover that the gesture was part of daily
robotic chanting in government schools in the USA for about three
decades prior to German national socialism.
Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy were American national
socialists and they influenced German national socialists, their
rituals, dogma and symbols (e.g. the use of the swastika as crossed
S-letters for socialism). Norwood (and all the other authors) seem to
be ignorant about that too (and about the role of Ernst Hanfstaengl).
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.JPG
A
connection might exist through the influence of Harvard grad Ernst
Hanfstaengl. Hanfstaengl was a close associate of Hitler. Hanfstaengl
had attended school in the United States during the time when the
United States used the stiff-arm salute in the Pledge of Allegiance
and elsewhere.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
The
stiff-arm salute originated from the Pledge of Allegiance, which was
written in 1892. It was the source of the salute adopted later by the
National Socialist German Workers Party, as shown in the work of the
symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets").
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
Hanfstaengl
created the infamous "Sieg Heil" chant (and the "Heil
Hitler" chant followed?), he spread America's straight-arm
salute in Germany, and he taught the German National Socialist leader
to use swastika-style symbolism in signatures.
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
The
movie shows how the "Rinehart" cry spread through American
popular culture.
The movie also shows (in a different scene)
the early American stiff-armed salute in the Pledge of Allegiance at
the beginning of class in a government school (socialist
school).
Also, the song "Harvard Blues," written by
Harvard graduate George Frazer and recorded by Count Basie (1941),
includes the line, "Rinehart, Rinehart, I am a most indifferent
guy . . ."
According to a Harvard magazine article,
Basie was charmed by the second stage of the Rinehart legend: "In
his 1984 biography of Frazier, 'Another Man's Poison,' Charles
Fountain reports that in 1941 Frazier regaled his friend Basie with a
sadsack version of the legend: 'Rinehart was a friendless young
Harvard who tried to present the illusion that he was in truth a
popular sort by standing under his dormitory window and hailing
himself,' wrote Fountain. 'Every other November, on the eve or the
morning of the Harvard-Yale game, part of the atmosphere in the lobby
of the Taft Hotel in New Haven was the faithful and incessant paging
of Mr. Rinehart—'Call for Mr. Rinehart! Call for Mr.
Rinehart!'— with never a Mr. Rinehart to answer.' "
The
legend presents some amusing parallels to Adolf Hitler (and Ernst
Hanfstaengl).
According to an article by David Winter in the
Journal of Personality, by the 1930s, the cry of "Rinehart!"
often signaled the beginning of a college riot. That is somewhat
consistent with its use in the movie "The Great Man Votes"
where a young boy (son of Barrymore's character) cries "Rinehart!"
when he charges another boy to fight.
The song was popular and
became a regular part of the shows Basie gave on college campuses. It
enjoyed some critical acclaim, the New York Times's jazz critic
calling it one of the "greatest of all blues lyrics."
According to the article by David Winter the custom seems to
have died out after World War II. Hmmm, 'wonder why?
The
book "The German Greeting. History of a dire gesture" is by
Tilman Allert. Originally in German, it is available in English as
"The Hitler Salute: on the meaning of a Gesture." In the
book Allert side-steps any serious discussion of the origin of the
straight-arm gesture. http://rexcurry.net/tilman-allert.html
The book indicates that Allert is completely unaware of the
fact that the United States used the stiff-arm salute in its Pledge
of Allegiance, from 1892. Allert was completely unaware of the
discoveries by the sociologist Dr. Rex Cury showing that the Pledge
was the origin of the salute adopted later by the socialist Mussolini
and by Hitler (head of the National Socialist German Workers Party).
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
In the USA today, high schools and universities continue
to use out-stretched arm salutes in their alma mater songs, chanted
in unison while pointing at the school flag or emblem.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point.jpg
and http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point2.jpg
Almost no American students are aware of the history of the
Pledge of Allegiance and the similarity of some alma mater salutes to
the early American pledge salute.
Some people claim that fans
at Texas A&M aggies games still use the early American stiff-arm
salute (the Nazi salute).
The hand-over-the-heart in the Pledge of Allegiance is
supposed to be performed with the right hand in a military salute
over the heart. That news is supported by photographic evidence in
recent research.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html#THE_TRUE_SALUTE
The
original Pledge of Allegiance began with the classic military salute
(to the forehead) that was then extended out toward the flag. It was
the origin of the stiff-arm salute adopted later by the National
Socialist German Workers Party in chants to its swastika flag and as
a general gesture of greeting (as shown by the historian Dr. Rex
Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
The
Pledge's initial military salute was sometimes modified because some
educrats believed that children should not mimic the military,
because it was either disrespectful or creepy. A modified version of
the gesture used the military salute from the chest and then extended
outward in the stiff-arm salute. An 1899 photograph of the gesture is
at http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-pledgeofallegiance1899.jpg
It is frightening to note that Adolf Hitler and German
National Socialists also adopted the gesture of the military salute
from the chest extended outward to the stiff-arm salute. See the part
played by the Harvard grad Ernst Hanfstaengl, aka Hilter's piano
player. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
U.S. wartime intelligence also believed the German National
Socialist salute may have been copied from American cheerleaders. A
government report claims of the Hitler salute: "In 1923 he
adored American football marches and college songs. The 'Sieg Heil'
used in all political rallies is a direct copy of the technique used
by American football cheerleaders." And the American football
cheerleaders adopted the method from the American Pledge of
Allegiance. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
In
the USA today, high schools and universities continue to use
out-stretched arm salutes in their alma mater songs, chanted in
unison while pointing at the school flag or emblem.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point.jpg
and http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point2.jpg
Almost no American students are aware of the history of the
Pledge of Allegiance and the similarity of some alma mater salutes to
the early American pledge salute. Cheerleaders continue to use the
military salute to the chest extended out into the stiff-arm
palm-down salute.
The fixation on the fasciate flag in the
Pledge of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/1n1.GIF Idiocy At The Speed of Ludicrous
It is amazing to realiize that the following news item
might have been similar to the many ways in which Germany first
learned of, and eventually adopted, the original American
salute.
Wrestler fired from CNBC for doing the original
"American salute" in Germany. CNBC Cuts Ties to
Professional Wrestler
NEW YORK (AP) - CNBC has dumped
professional wrestler John "Bradshaw" Layfield as a
financial analyst after he was observed making [early American
salute] gestures during a World Wrestling Entertainment match in
Munich.
Layfield, who has written a book on personal
finance, had been a CNBC contributor for only three weeks.
While
in the wrestling ring over the weekend, Layfield reportedly
imitated a Nazi march and raised his arm in a Nazi salute [an
early American salute].
Swastika
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-house-ernst-hanfstaengl-strase-germany1934.jpg
Swastika Swastika
building on Hanfstaenglstraße, "Swastika Estate"
was constructed in 1934. Four linked houses form the outline
of a swastika. According to the architect the design was supposed to
decrease heating and construction costs. Hanfstaengl strasse
Hanfstaenglstraße 16 80638 Munich Germany Another
one on Donaustraße was called "Swastika House". Does
anyone know what they are used for today? Donaustraße 81679
Munich, Germany
The
swastika was used by socialists in the USA to support Military
Socialism and it was used as alphabetical symbolism of meshed
S-letters for "Socialism." Socialists in the USA used it
for decades before it was adopted by the militaristic National
Socialist German Workers
Party. http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
Those
discoveries are the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of
Pledge of Allegiance Secrets). It should be noted that the building's
swastika symbol is oriented horizontal to the adjoining street, yet
oriented with north (up) at the top in the style of the Nazi flag.
One
of the first and loudest critics of the Swastika Building was Dave
vonKleist, host of a Missouri-based radio-talk show, The Power Hour.
In spring 2006, he began writing military officials, including
then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the Navy's Coronado
Seabees Barracks in California, shown in this
photo. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-building-coronado-seabees4L-shapes1960.jpg
Socialists in the
USA originated the Nazi salute, robotic group-chanting to flags,
Nazism, flag fetishism, and the modern swastika as "S"
symbolism for "Socialism."
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
Much
of that history is the history of the Pledge Of Allegiance. A new
documentary video movie exposes the shocking facts on
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
Those
historical facts explain the enormous size and scope of government
today, and the USA's growing police state. They are reasons for
massive reductions in government, taxation, spending and
socialism.
The "Nazi salute" is more accurately
called the "American salute" as it was created and
popularized by national socialists in the USA. It was the early
salute of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Pledge was written by Francis
Bellamy. http://rexcurry.net/pledgetragedy.html
The
original Pledge of Allegiance began with a military salute that was
then extended out toward the flag. It was the origin of the stiff-arm
salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
Francis Bellamy and his cousin Edward Bellamy called their
dogma "Military Socialism." The military salute is a
sign of submission to a superior officer / commanding officer (in
this case the flag / government) whose orders must be obeyed without
question. http://rexcurry.net/1n1.gif
Francis
Bellamy was cousin and cohort of Edward Bellamy.
http://rexcurry.net/pledgebackward.html
Edward Bellamy and
Francis Bellamy were self-proclaimed socialists in the Nationalism
movement and they promoted military socialism.
They wanted
the government to take over education and use it to spread their
worship of government. When the government granted their wish,
the government’s schools imposed segregation by law and taught
racism as official policy. The official racism and segregation
was a bad example three decades before the National Socialist German
Workers Party, and decades afterward.
The Pledge was mandated
by law in government schools for three decades before, and through,
the creation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-karl-marx.html
Many people
do not know that the term "Nazi" means "National
Socialist German Workers' Party." Members of the horrid
group did not call themselves Nazis. In that sense, there was
no Nazi Party. They also did not call themselves Fascists. They
called themselves socialists, just as their name
indicates.
************************ Hanfstaengl, nicknamed
"Putzi", was born in Munich, Germany, to a successful
German art publisher and an American mother.
After Harvard,
he moved to New York and took over management of the American branch
of his father's business. Hanfstaengl remained in the US during WWI.
On February 11, 1920, he married. He eventually enlisted in the US
Army air corps.
He became head of the Foreign Press Bureau in
Berlin.
As the NSDAP gathered power, several disputes arose
between Hanfstaengl and Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph
Goebbels. Hanfstaengl was shunted off of Hitler's staff in 1933.
Hanfstaengl eventually fell completely out of favor.
Ernst
and Helene divorced in 1936.
William Shirer, a CBS journalist,
resided in Germany until 1941 and was in frequent contact with
Hanfstaengl.
He made his way to Switzerland. In 1942
Hanfstaengl was turned over to the United States.
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The question is: Is it
necessary to get out of bed and stand when the national anthem comes
over the radio?
Washingtonians who attend band concerts are
rapidly adopting the foreign custom of arising and uncovering the
head when national airs are played. "The Star-Spangled Banner"
especially evokes this behavior, and a salute to the flag accompanies
other patriotic demonstrations.
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Seen
on the web: If you went to see England college station soccer at
Wembley, you could observe people around you making the Nazi salute
during the national anthem, and abuse of black players, even those
playing for the home. It is sad to note that it sounds like the
USA not long after the Pledge of Allegiance was created in 1892.
See also National Anthem & Star Spangled Banner
Julian
West, James Upham, Youths Companion, Nationalism, Socialist
Revolution, Theosophical, Theosophy, Blavatsky Pledge of
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