Egon Hanfstaengl was born on February 3, 1921 in New York City as the son of Ernst Hanfstaengl and Helene Hanfstaengl, née Niemeyer. Hitler became his godfather. He had a sister, Hertha, who died at the age of 5. He received his school education in England and Germany, where he also joined the Hitler Youth.
An American citizen by birth, he returned to the United States for his university education. As the son of a prominent former top official of the NSDAP, about whom the American press reported regularly, Hanfstaengl also came into the focus of the reporting. The New York Times announced the admission of the 18-year-old to Harvard University.[2] The newspaper also reported that he volunteered for the United States Army Air Corps in early 1941.[3][4] The news about Hanfstaengl's entry into the US Army also received attention from Minister of PropagandaJoseph Goebbels, he made a corresponding entry in his diary.[5]
Journalist John Franklin Carter, who, as a consultant to US PresidentFranklin Roosevelt, had psychological assessments prepared of some Nazi leaders, also asked Hanfstaengl's father and his son. When Hanfstaengl started working on a book about the Hitler Youth, Roosevelt, who knew his father, Ernst Hanfstaengl, from studying in Harvard, spontaneously dictated several paragraphs for a foreword, according to the Carters report.[6] According to American records, Hanfstaengl offered Roosevelt to travel to Hitler in the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, in 1943 to attack him, but the White House ignored this suggestion.[7]
After World War II, Hanfstaengl was a lecturer in European and American history at Brooklyn College in New York. He was managing director of the art and publishing house Franz Hanfstaengl in Munich, from 1958 until its dissolution in 1980. As the godchild of Adolf Hitler, he appeared in several documentaries about Hitler.
He died on March 21, 2007 at the age of 86.
Literature
Ulrich Chaussy: Zweimal Amerika und zurück nach Bayern: das bewegte Leben des Egon Hanfstaengl. Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2000.
References
^Peter Conradi, Hitler's Piano Player, 2006, Seite 34
^Hitler Ex-Aide's Son in Harvard. In: New York Times, 23. September 1939.
^Hanfstaengl Jr. In Army; Harvard Man, Son of Ex-Nazi, Enlists in American Forces. In: New York Times, 30. Januar 1941.
^Carlos Widmann, Play it again, Putzi. Der Spiegel, 10/1999.
^Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels. Hrsg. Elke Fröhlich. T. I, Bd. 9. München 1998, S. 119.
^Joseph E. Persico: Roosevelt's Secret War. FDR and World War II Espionage. New York 2002, S. 232.
^Joseph E. Persico: Roosevelt's Secret War. FDR and World War II Espionage. New York 2002, S. 332.
February 04, 2023
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