Nazi Refugee Turned Gestapo Spy
Subtitle: The Life of Hans Wesemann, 1895-1971
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: February 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780275971243
Subjects: Biography: general; British & Irish history: Second World War; European history: Second World War; 20th century; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; Germany; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Military - World War II; History / Military / General; Historical - General; 1895-; Biography; Espionage, German; Great Britain; History; Secret service; Spies; Wesemann, Hans,; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: Hans Walter Wesemann was born on 27 November 1895 in Nienburg, Germany, a town on the Weser River near Hanover, where his father, Fritz Wesemann, was also born.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.