EXTENSIONS of REMARKS July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS HEINZ W

18016 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HEINZ W. MAIENTHAU, A made at a certain Munich Restaurant. Like In view of the danger I was exposed to and 20TH-CENTURY HERO other young intellectuals I also worked as for other reasons I always carried an auto an extra in a rather famous and high brow matic pistol on my person. I considered Munich Theater, the Kammer Spiele. The myself as a marksman with both handgun HON.CARYL.ACKERMAN "extras" and certain actors and actresses and rifle. A few days before the Hitler OF NEW YORK and other theatrical personnel intermingled Putsch I travelled from Berlin to Munich. I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES also socially. stayed at my mother's <she was a widow) We met, not infrequently, at a certain res and met with both Karl Frankenburger and Tuesday, July 29, 1986 taurant <I cannot recall its name), where we Koeberlin. They gave me a number of classi Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, through the had a special table <stammtisch) assigned to fied documents <I do not recall their nature) horror and depravity of the 20th centuries, a us. But Hitler and his close entourage were and I took them home with me. also frequenters of this restaurant. On November 7, 1923 I had an urgent tele few heroic individuals have stood up and said Otto Zarek was the "regisseur" or director phone call from Koeberlin who said that "No" to barbarism. Such a person was Heinz of the Kammerspiele stock company. He es there was going to be a putsch and that we W. Maienthau, a German who actively fought caped from the Nazis and went to England were all leaving Munich and going to Augs the rise of Hitler while so many others an,d wrote a book giving full details of this burg <a small town in Bavaria> by a "high watched idly, doing nothing. phase of my recollection. However, I have powered" automobile. Mr. Speaker, I am priviledged and honored not seen the book in decades, but, small Armed with this information and ready to to include a statement given by Heinz doubt it is available at the Library of Con leave I telephoned a friend of the family by Maienthau, a true hero of the 20th century, in gress. But this may explain that I had been the name of Herman Pohl, who, at that somewhat noticed by the Nazis at that time. time was a high official of the Munich the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at this point of With Frankenburger I also became active Police. Herman Pohl was an admirer of my the proceedings. in an organization called "Kartell Republi widowed mother and wanted to marry her. STATEMENT BY HEINZ W. MAIENTHAU kanischer Studenten". It was a national or He came from a prominent Bavaria (gentile) I was born December 15, 1902, in Munich ganization with some strong political con family-was previously an officer of the Germany. My father's name is Max nections. German Army and as a major in the Army Maienthau, born either in Nuernberg or The word Republikan indicated that it and was one of the pioneer aviators. During Fuerth, a small city near Nuernberg. My was in favor of the democratic Weimar Re World War I he became commander of the mother's maiden name was Anna Kohn, also public and opposed to its foes. This organi Bavarian Airforce. As a student I challenged a native of Nuernberg. We are Frankonian zation was backed financially and otherwise another (gentile) student to a duel and Jews. by the Social Democratic party of Germany asked Herman Pohl to be my second-to the This narrative is written at the request of and especially by one of its prominent lead great embarassment of the gentile student Arther Sinai, who some years ago, when I ers, named Bernstein. Bernstein's own home and of Pohl. Nothing much came of it-the worked as an investigator in the Office of became the central office of the Kartell Re gentiles were not supposed to duel with Special Investigation of the State of Illinois, publickanischer Studenten. It was headed Jews. was my immediate superior. The narrative by one Wilhelm Koeberlin, an archaeolo Just when I was about to leave I had a deals with my personal experiences during gist, who had spent considerable time in the telephone call from Pohl. He said that there the so-called Burger Braeu Putsch involving Near East. He was a rather strange and was no need to flee to Augsburg that the Adolph Hitler and General Ludendorf. I probably very brilliant person, very secre putsch had been called off and that I did think that most if not all recollections put tive and involved. He and his affinity, a not need to leave Munich since von Kahr down at this time are correct and factual. young lawyer by the name of Anna Selo, was in complete control. In view of this I de Prior to these dates I had lived in Munich, became good friends of mine. <Anna Selo cided to stay in Munich and of course in at our apartment, Wiedennayerstrasse 5, became a delegate to the League of Nations formed my friends, who also stayed. By which was quite a fancy address at that in Geneva, she escaped the Nazis and subse some hunch I hid the classified documents time. I worked as an "antiquarian" at a quently lived in New York. As to Koeberlin, and my gun under some linen in a commode famous bookseller, Jacques Rosenthal, a I was told that he survived the Nazis and in my bedroom. firm well-known for its vast collection of had a rather prosperous antique business in The next day, early in the morning <I rare books and prints, and especially of me Munich during the Nazi regime.) assume it was between seven or eight in the diaeval manuscripts and incunabula (books The Koeberlin modus operandi was far morning) the bell rang. I was still in bed. printed before the year 1500). I also attend flung and intricate. There were some Nazi Some men in the uniform of the regular ed courses at the University. attempts to infiltrate-and it appears that German Army and without any Nazi insig My best friend was a young man by the Koeberlin was aware of them. He had a nia said that I was under arrest. They gave name of Karl Frankenburger, a brilliant in number of informants. Obviously, there had me time to dress but did not search my tellectual. His family was one of the most been a leak because eight of them were room, where my gun and the documents highly respected Jewish families in Germa found floating down the river Isar in were hidden. I offered no resistance since ny. His father was Justizrat Frankenburger, Munich, with their throats cut. This was the men were in the uniform of the regular a lecturer on international law at the Uni prior to the Hitler Putsch, if my recollec and legitimate German Army. versity of Munich and his brother Paul tions are right. After I dressed the men took me to the Frankenburger was the conductor of choir In 1922 I was severely beaten and viciously street and I was marched up and down the of the Munich Opera. attacked by certain Nazis. I recuperated and Wiedenmayer Strasse between raised bayo Karl Frankenburger and I had quite a was told by various sources that my life in nets. I still picture myself-I dressed rather number of various social contacts, some Bavaria was no longer safe and that I carefully in those days and had yellow stemming from contacts made in taverns, should move to Prussia where a Social suede gloves on my hands. The day was frequented by artists, students and intellec Democratic government ruled. somewhat grey, but not very cold and there tuals. One of these, called der bunte Papa Therefore, I obtained a job in Berlin. Fur was no snow on the ground. Eventually we gei was located in the "bohemian" section of thermore, Karin von Hinueber, gave me a were joined by other prisoners and guards. Munich. It is there that I met and became message, purportedly stemming from Alfred At this time I can only recall one of my somewhat friendly with Alfred Rosenberg Rosenberg that the Nazis would take over fellow prisoners. His name was Milton Heil and he and I went on several drinking par Germany and that he neither would or bronner a rather wealthy theatrical produc ties together. In such a locale I also met a could protect me and that I should leave er, father of my friend Herbert Heilbronner somewhat shady lady who called herself Germany as soon as possible. I moved to and also of two beautiful daughters. At a Katin von Hinueber, a former mistress of Berlin, where I obtained a job and applied later date I located Herbert Heilbronner in Alfred Rosenberg. for a visa to the United States which at that Los Angeles, where he had a job connected Other remote and mostly visual contacts time took considerable effort and time to with the motion picture industry <trailers>. with Adolph Hitler and his entourage were obtain. We had some correspondence during the e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor.

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