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NEWS LETTER Published by News Research Service, Inc., 727 W. Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California Space permits only highlighting of news. More detailed information is available to serious Students and Writers. Figures In Text Indicate Ref-1 No.116.November 27,1940 erence Notes at end of Issue. ANSCHLUSS-FRAUENFELD AGAIN SLATED FOR U.S. NAZI COMMAND Anse/I/was-Frauenfeld -- the man who played Austria into Hitler's hands -- is once more on the point of leaving for the United States. He has been groomed for years for his new post, and is just the man to take over the United States Sector of the Fifth-Column Front since he has never actively figured in trans-Atlantic Nazi entanglements. Nov that many Hitler subversivists are currently being exposed -- and thus Jndered useless for service in the United States -- their replacement is cre- ating a serious problem for Herr Doktor Goebbels. Among those whose propaganda poison fangs have been plucked in the course of time are Colin Ross 1) (whose activities were repeatedly spotlighted by NEWS LETTER, more recently in issues of October 2, 1940 and August 28, 1940); the Duke of Saxe-COburg..Gotha z), (whose Red Cross camouflage was reviewed in NEWS LETTER of October 2, 1940 and March 21, 1940); Dr. Alfred von Wegerer 3) (see NEWS LETTER of October 2, 1940 and April 11, 1940); "Propaganda Prince" Bernhard zur Lippe *)(who sailed for Japan )n July 19, 1940, after his Nazi recruiting work among American students had peen analyzed in NEWS LETTER of July 17, 1940 and May 22, 1940); and last, but not least, "Columbia Professor" Friedrich E. Auhagen (see NEWS LETTER of Oc- tober 9, 1940 and September 14, 1939) who was apprehended:ashe was about to sail to his German fatherland via Japan. In view of all these -casualties, the Reich Propaganda Ministrfeels im- pelled to make still another attempt to fill the most important US Nazi command 'th to.p-notcher Alfred Edward Frauenfeld. Herr Frauenfelde*amber of Hit- _dr's Reichstag, and also attached to the Reich Kultur SehateAn'therge of all Nazi theatres. Significantly, Frauenfeld also is the man who prepared the way Of the Austrian Nazi revolution which, in 1934, led to the , assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and, in 1938, to Anschluss. Frauenfeld has been mentioned as Nazi Generalissimo for the United States on other occasions, among them on Kuhn Successor January 2nd, last, when International News Service re- Named by Bund ported:) LONDON, Jan. 2.—(Tuesday) Similar information was disseminated by rParis Soir" -- (INS) — Alfred Frauenfeld, on January 4. The result of all this publicity was that, Austrian Nagl ap- exposed in advance, Herr Frauenfeld did not even cross pointed successor to Fritz Kuhn the ocean. However, now that almost a year has passed, as head of the German-American Bund, the Daily Sketch said to- NRS hears that once more Frauenfeld has packed his day. The newspaper declared the trunks, anticipating an early departure for the United United States Secret Service had States by way of Siberia and the been informed of the appoint- Pacific Ocean. If ment. Frauenfeld actually makes the trip this tine, _he will The Sketch said Frauenfeld is arrive either in San Francisco, where Captain Fritz Supposed to intensify Bund work Wiedemann Hitler's war-time superior, is in charge In the United States while Kuhn G.), Serves a prison term to theft. of the German Consulate General; or in Los Angeles, where Dr. Georg Gyssling 7) represents the Reich. Page 2. Frauenfeld's "Career" Watched Although Frauenfeld may be a stranger to most people outside the Swastika Reich, his propaganda work has been pilloried before in NEWS LETTER. Mention of him was first made on July 5, 1939, when it was revealed that the March 13, 1939] issue of Westdeutscher Beobachter had been withdrawn. This "Special Sou- venir" issue, celebrating the first anniversary of the Austrian Anschluss, contained an article by Frauenfeld, shedding significant light on what actual- ly happened to Nazi prisoners at the Austrian concentration camp Woellersdorf. There, a great many of them had died, supposedly from typhoid but in reality from dysentery -- as confirmed by The New York Times' then European Chief Cor- respondent, Frederick T. Birchallo °Our 'dysentery epidemic' propaganda, which was very valuable, went Gloated Frauenfeld in off as scheduled. We prisoners were treated by Dr. Koohendorfer,a den- tist in Wiener Neustadt. As per our plans, we obtained through him his article: , several vials of dysentery baoteria. Through the same source I obtained large quantities of laxatives. °The bacteria were smeared on the knobs of the cell-doors in Woel- A week later, NEWS LET- lersdorf and we gave all party comrades plenty of laxatives. Further- TER, following up the Frau- more, those comrades who were selected for the sickness were given an injection of dead typhoid baoteria to stimulate temporary fever. On the enfeld expose', reported: following day, the first dysentery oases were reported and the 'patients' were transported to the hospital. The reactions in the world to the reports of the epidemic were sensational.° How successful Frauen- feld was in Switzerland be- Headed by Alfred Frauenfeld, leading Austrian Nazi, (NRS July 5) ten °Reich Speakers° were sent into Switzerland on Nay 1. According to came evident only during a report published by the Official German News Agency, their the last month* when. the FRAUENFELD errand was °to spread the message of the Fuehrer amongst ATTEMPTS fellow-Germans abroad, and to give them an account of the Berne government faced the TO NAZIFY year during which the development of Greater Germany reached necessity of officially SWISS its climax.° Frauenfeld, who was considered one of Hitler's most nanny propagandists in pre-Anschlussed Austria, deliv- combatting the Nazi danger ered "inspirational° addresses at Basle, Liestal and Olten, reciting the by dissolving the so-called step-by-step activities of the Nazis in Austria during the political regimes of Chancellors Dolfuss and Sohushnigg. The °Deutsche Zeitung in Swiss National Movement. der Schweiz°, German-subsidized newspaper published in Switzerland, ran a glowing account of Frauenfeld's address, stating that °his moving speech, which aroused sincere enthusiasm, created the resonance which is The first time Frau- produced by the words of a man from the front.° enfeld was mentioned as At Lucerne and other important Swiss cities where the Nazi orators appeared, the meeting halls were decorated with huge Swastika banners Goebbelsf United States re- and flags. Those attending the meetings sang the Deutsohlandlied and the Horst Wessel Song. The °festivals° were climaxed with Swastika flag presentative was as early as parades during which the entire assemblages gave the Hitler salute. November,1934, when The New York Times reported that he had been "appointed....to go to the United States to direct Nazi, propaganda there.. .11 e was asserted to be perfecting his know- ledge of English." Ever since, Frauenfeld has been on Goebbels' "Eligibility List", being carefully groomed for a later appointment to so vital an overseas propaganda sector as the United States. In line with these plans,/ Frauenfeld has been trotted out on all suitable occasions. The most important was the "Day of Ger- man Folkdom", held in conjunction with the Nazi Party Day in September, 19350 liStanding under the slogan: One Reich, One People, One Fuhrer, One God, Frau- enfeld was one of the foremost speakers of that day. In the course of his ad- dress, he stated: "Take heed that race is an eternal and divine creation. The borders of the German Reich have been drawn by German blood. They end 6nly where the German language, German customs and German loyalty find an end. All Germans must help build the great cathedral of the German future, in which all the people of the Third Reich will have room." Shortly after Frauenfeld's Nazi Party address, rumors were again rampant that he was slated for the US Nazi. command. Once more, The New York Times re- ported in great detail, with the result that Frauenfeld did not set sail for the New World. Now that news is received over here that Frauenfeld, not to be discouraged, is about to assume the post of Reich Propaganda Generalissimo in the United States, the possibility arises that, if this country is sufficient- ly forewarned, he may again refrain from venturing across the sea to prepare America's ideological Ansohlusso kFor details of Erauemfedt_5 rise_ tn Nazi_ power see RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT #117.) RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT Published by News Research Service, Inc., 727 W. Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California Space permits only highlighting of news. More detailed information is available to serious Students and Writers. Figures In Text indicate Ref- erence Notes at end of Issue. No.117. November 27,1940 FRAUENFELD POCKET-SIZE HITLER Alfred Edward Frauenfeld, once again slated to assume command as Reich Propaganda Generalissimo in the United States, is a pocket-size Hitler. Both men were started on spectacular careers not because they were pre- destined for them, but because they are "stunted geniuses". Without the slightest justification, Hitler flattered himself that he was entitled to enter the German Hall of Fame as a great painter; Frauenfeld indulged in com- pletely abortive attempts to make his way into Valhalla as TIM Teuton poet. Both experienced years of unemployment, during which they eked out a meagre -ivelihood by doing odd jobs; both eventually joined the budding, revolu- .ionary Nazi movement: Hitler in Munich, as the seventh of a group of dis- gruntled men who used to sneak into the Burgerbra:u beer cellar for a clandes- tine airing of neo-nihilistic doctrines; Frauenfeld in Vienna, as one of the first to inoculate the Aus- change of heart during the negotia- tions between the friends of the trian body politic with Nazi NAZIS SAID TO PLAN Nazis and the government.