Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an
anti-Nazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to
go to work for the Gestapo abroad? Hans Wesemann, a veteran of
World War I and a successful journalist, fled his native Germany in
1933 after writing a number of anti-Nazi articles. Once in Britain,
he found life difficult and dull, and thus, for a number of
reasons, agreed to furnish the German Embassy in London with
information about other refugees. Inevitably, Wesemann became
ensnared in his own treachery and suffered the consequences.
During the volatile and experimental years of the Weimar
Republic, Wesemann applied his urbanity and cynicism to the
analysis of politics, high culture, and popular beliefs. He dared
not remain in Germany once Hitler came to power. Once working as a
Gestapo agent, he was implicated in the kidnapping of a German
exile onto German territory and spent considerable time in a Swiss
prison. Although he was eventually freed and able to join his fianc
DEGREESD'ee in Venezuela, his unsavory past would continue to haunt
him in South America and later in the United States,
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