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Ernst Hanfstaengl
Hanfstaengl in 1934
Born
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl
(1887-02-02)2 February 1887
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died
6 November 1975(1975-11-06) (aged 88)
Munich, West Germany
Nationality
German American
Alma mater
Harvard University
Occupation
Businessman
Known for
Close friend of Adolf Hitler
Spouse
Helene Hanfstaengl
Children
2, including Egon
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (German pronunciation:[ˈɛʁnsthanfˈʃtɛŋl̩]; 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. He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt and was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes.
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁnst hanfˈʃtɛŋl̩]; 2 February 1887 – 6 November 1975) was a German American businessman and...
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battlefields. In Munich, he met ErnstHanfstaengl, a friend of Hitler, who was then rising in prominence. Hanfstaengl tried to arrange a meeting between...
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sharing the same hotel. Churchill expressed to Hitler's confidante ErnstHanfstaengl, "Why is your chief so violent about the Jews?... what is the sense...
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holds German citizenship. David Garrett, pop artist and violinist. ErnstHanfstaengl, ex-Nazi and intelligence worker for the Americans during World War...
Hitler as a genius and messiah, in May 1923 he complained to Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, another of Hitler's mentors, that Hitler had "megalomania halfway...
moustache on Charlie Chaplin's. In 1923, Hitler's future publicist ErnstHanfstaengl advised Hitler to lose the toothbrush, to which he replied, "If it...