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[[Neo-Nazism|Neo-Nazi]] groups, symbols, figures, dog whistles, et cetera. '''Some of the content included here may be disturbing'''
Testimony of ULRICH VON GIENANTH, taken at Nurnberg, Germany, 30 April 1946, by Mr. O. John Rogge, 1430 – 1700. Also present: Dr. R. M. W. Kempner; Mr. Paul Ertzinger; Piilani A. Ahuna, Court Reporter.


== Acronyms ==


* '''113%''' - A way of saying "Aryan Circle 100%". 'A' is the first letter in the Roman alphabet and 'C' is the third (hence the extra '13').
<u>INDEX</u>
* '''12''' - A reference to the "AB", as 'A' is the first letter of the Roman alphabet and 'B' is the second.
* '''13''' - A reference to the "AC", as 'A' is the first letter of the Roman alphabet and 'C' is the third.
* '''136''' - A way of saying "'''A'''ryan '''C'''ircle '''F'''orever", as 'A' is the first letter of the Roman alphabet, 'C' is the third, and 'F' is the sixth.
* '''1388''' - From "13" and "88". Variant of the traditional "1488". Used by members of the Aryan Circle.
* '''14''' - See "Fourteen Words".
* '''1488''' - Two acronyms paired together ("14" and "88").
* '''18''' - An reference to a different acronym, "AH", as 'A' is the first letter of the Latin alphabet and 'H' is the eighth.
* '''1933''' - The year that Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
* '''318''' - A reference to a different acronym, "C18".
* '''38''' - A reference to the Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi group with two '''C'''rossed '''H'''ammers in its logo. The word 'Crossed' begins with a 'C' (the third letter in the Roman alphabet) and the word 'Hammer' with an 'H' (the eighth letter in the Roman alphabet).
* '''838''' - A reference to the Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi group with two '''C'''rossed '''H'''ammers in its logo. The eighth letter in the Roman alphabet is 'H' and the third letter in the Roman alphabet is 'C'.  See "HCH".
* '''88''' - A reference to a different acronym, "HH", as 'H' is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
* '''AB''' - An abbreviation of the ''''A'''ryan '''B'''rotherhood'.
* '''AC''' - An abbreviation of the ''''A'''ryan '''C'''ircle', a neo-Nazi, white supremacist prison gang in the United States.
* '''AH''' - The initials of '''A'''dolf '''H'''itler.
* '''ANP''' - An abbreviation of the ''''A'''merican '''N'''azi '''P'''arty'.
* '''AR''' - An abbreviation of ''''A'''ntipodean '''R'''esistance'.
* '''ARA''' - An abbreviation of the ''''A'''ryan '''R'''epublican '''A'''rmy'.
* '''ASF''' - An abbreviation of ''''A'''ryan '''S'''trike'''f'''orce'.
* '''AWB''' - An abbreviation of the ''''A'''frikaner '''W'''eerstands'''b'''eweging' (Afrikaner Resistance Movement), an neo-Nazi, Afrikaner nationalist organisation in South Africa.
* '''AWD''' - An abbreviation of the ''''A'''tom'''w'''affen '''D'''ivision'.
* '''AWDD''' - An abbreviation of ''''A'''tom'''w'''affen '''D'''ivision '''D'''eutschland', the German branch of the Atomwaffen Division.
* '''AWDE''' - An abbreviation of ''''A'''tom'''w'''affen '''D'''ivision '''E'''urope', a branch of AWD Deutschland for Poles and Ukrainians.
* '''AWDR''' - An abbreviation of ''''A'''tom'''w'''affen '''D'''ivision '''R'''ussland', the Russian branch of the Atomwaffen Division.
* '''AWDSS''' - An abbreviation of ''''A'''tom'''w'''affen '''D'''ivision Finland '''S'''iitoin '''S'''quadron', the Finnish branch of the Atomwaffen Division.
* '''BBET''' - An abbreviation of "'''B'''loed, '''B'''<nowiki/>odem, '''E'''er en '''T'''rouw" (Blood, Soil, Honour and Loyalty).
* '''C18''' - An abbreviation of ''''C'''ombat '''18'''<nowiki/>', a neo-Nazi group based in Europe and North America.
* '''C88''' - An abbreviation of ''''C'''olumn '''88'''<nowiki/>', a neo-Nazi org based in the United Kingdom.
* '''CFFC''' - See "'''C'''ircle '''F'''orever, '''F'''orever '''C'''ircle".
* '''CODOH''' - An abbreviation of ''''C'''ommittee for '''O'''pen '''D'''ebate '''o'''n the '''H'''olocaust'.
* '''FKD''' - An abbreviation of the ''''F'''euer'''k'''rieg '''D'''ivision', the Baltic branch of the Atomwaffen Division.
* '''GNLS''' - See "'''G'''ood '''N'''ight '''L'''eft '''S'''ide".
* '''GTKRWN''' - An abbreviation of "'''G'''as '''T'''he '''K'''*kes, '''R'''ace '''W'''ar '''N'''ow".
* '''HCH''' - An abbreviation of "'''H'''ail [the] '''C'''rossed '''H'''ammers". 'Crossed Hammers' refers to the logo of the Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi group.
* '''HH''' - An abbreviation of "'''H'''eil '''H'''itler", a greeting used in Nazi Germany.
* '''HRP''' - An abbreviation of ''''H'''istorical '''R'''eview '''P'''ress'.
* '''IHR''' - An abbreviation of the ''''I'''nstitute for '''H'''istorical '''R'''eview'.
* '''JHR''' - An abbreviation of the '<nowiki/>'''''J'''ournal of '''H'''istorical '''R'''eview''<nowiki/>'.
* '''JQ''' - An abbreviation of the ''''J'''ewish '''Q'''uestion'.
* '''KKK''' - An abbreviation of the ''''K'''u '''K'''lux '''K'''lan', a primarily white supremacist organisation, although it has some neo-Nazi elements.
* '''KKKK''' - An abbreviation of the '''K'''nights of the '''K'''u '''K'''lux '''K'''lan; also used by '''K'''ekistani trolls, who incorporate four K's instead of the traditional three K's into their flag.
* '''KO51''' - An abbreviation of ''''K'''nock'''o'''ut '''51'''<nowiki/>', a right-wing German martial arts group. The '51' refers to Eisenach, where the group is based, as license plates in Eisenach begin with 'EA', and 'E' is the fifth letter of the alphabet while 'A' is the first.
* '''LSF''' - An abbreviation of the ''''L'''egion f<nowiki/>or the '''S'''urvival of '''F'''reedom'.
* '''MEHT''' - An abbreviation of the phrase ''''M'''eine '''E'''hre '''h'''eißt '''T'''reue' (My honour is loyalty). See "My Honour is Loyalty".
* '''NLR''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''azi '''L'''ow'''r'''iders'.
* '''NLYS''' - An abbreviation of the phrase "'''N'''ever '''L'''ose '''Y'''our '''S'''mile".
* '''NO''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''orthern '''O'''rder', the Canadian branch of the Atomwaffen Division.
* '''NOS''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''uovo '''O'''rdine '''S'''ociale', the Italian branch of the Atomwaffen Division.
* '''NPI''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''ational '''P'''olicy '''I'''nstitute'.
* '''NSLF''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''ational '''S'''ocialist '''L'''iberation '''F'''ront'.
* '''NSM''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''ational '''S'''ocialist '''M'''ovement'.
* '''NSN''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''ational '''S'''ocialist '''N'''etwork'.
* '''NSPA''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''ational '''S'''ocialist '''P'''arty of '''A'''ustralia'.
* '''NSWPP''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''ational '''S'''ocialist '''W'''hite '''P'''eople's '''P'''arty'.
* '''NYA''' - An abbreviation of the ''''N'''ational '''Y'''outh '''A'''lliance'.
* '''O9A''' - An Abbreviation of ''''O'''rder of '''Nine''' '''A'''ngles'.
* '''ONA''' - An abbreviation of ''''O'''rder of '''N'''ine '''A'''ngles'.
* '''ORION''' - An abbreviation of ''''O'''ur '''R'''ace '''I'''s '''O'''ur '''N'''ation'.
* '''RWD''' - An abbreviation of the ''''R'''*pe'''w'''affen '''D'''ivision'.
* '''RWDS''' - An abbreviation of "'''R'''ight '''W'''ing '''D'''eath '''S'''quad".
* '''SS''' - An abbreviation of the ''''S'''chutz'''s'''taffel', the main paramilitary group of the Nazi Party; alternatively, "Super Straight".
* '''TGKSID''' - An abbreviation of the phrase ''''T'''he '''G'''oyim '''K'''now, '''S'''hut '''I'''t '''D'''own'.
* '''TND''' - An abbreviation of the phrase ''''T'''otal '''N'''***er '''D'''eath'.
* '''TWP''' - An abbreviation of the ''''T'''raditionalist '''W'''orker '''P'''arty'.
* '''VffG''' - An abbreviation of ''''''V'''ierteljahreshefte '''f'''ür '''f'''reie '''G'''eschichtsforschung''<nowiki/>' (''Quarterly Magazine for Free Historical Research'')
* '''WAR''' - An abbreviation of the ''''W'''hite '''A'''ryan '''R'''esistance', a neo-Nazi organisation in the United States.
* '''WPWW''' - An abbreviation of the phrase "'''W'''hite '''P'''ride '''W'''orld'''w'''ide".
* '''WTRX''' - An abbreviation of ''''W'''hi'''t'''e '''R'''e'''x'''<nowiki/>', the nom-de-guerre of Russian neo-Nazi Denis Yevgenyevich Kapustin
* '''WUFENS''' - An abbreviation of the ''''W'''orld '''U'''nion of '''F'''ree '''E'''nterprise '''N'''ational '''S'''ocialists'.
* '''WUNS''' - An abbreviation of the ''''W'''orld '''U'''nion of '''N'''ational '''S'''ocialists'.


== Companies ==
My work for the German Library of Information in New York.......................1 – 7


* [[Antelope Hill Publishing]]
My Duties as Attache of the Propaganda Ministry in Washington.....................8 – 14
* [[Castle Hill Publishers]]
* [[Epik]], a web hosting company
* [[Historical Review Press]]
* [[Legion for the Survival of Freedom]], the parent company of the Institute for Historical Review
* [[The Barnes Review]]
* [[Third Reich Books]]


== Groups ==
The Financial Means at my Disposal.............14 – 17


* [[Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging]] (Afrikaner Resistance Movement)
My Position in Washington During the War..........18 – 21
* [[Antipodean Resistance]]
* [[Aryan Brotherhood]]
* [[Aryan Circle]]
* [[Aryan Republican Army]]
* [[Assault Brigade "Azov"]]
* [[Atomwaffen Division]]
** [[AWD Deutschland]] (AWD Germany)
*** [[AWD Europe]]
** [[Atomwaffen Division Finland "Siitoin Squadron"|AWD Finland "Siitoin Squadron"]]
** [[AWD Russland]] (AWD Russia)
** [[Feuerkrieg Division]] (Fire War Division)
** [[Northern Order]]
** [[Nuovo Ordine Sociale]] (New Social Order)
** [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (Sun War Division)
* [[Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw]] (Blood, Soil, Honour and Loyalty)
* [[Hammerskins]]
* [[Institute for Historical Review]]
* [[Knockout 51]]
* [[Ku Klux Klan]]
** [[Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]]
* [[Liberty Lobby]]
* [[National Socialist Liberation Front]]
* [[National Socialist White People's Party]]
* [[National Youth Alliance]]
* [[Nazi Lowriders]]
* [[Traditionalist Worker Party]]
* [[Universal Order]]
* [[Vrij Historical Onderzoek]] (Free Historical Research)
* [[White Aryan Resistance]]
* [[White Revolution]]


== Insignia ==
Laura Ingalls........................21 – 23


== People ==


* [[Alfed Konder]] (1953–), Statesian author, genealogist, and antisemite.
* [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]], founder of Iron March.
* [[Allan B. Kennady]], also known as Samuel Crowell or Ehrlich606.
* [[Bradley R. Smith (Holocaust denier)|Bradley R. Smith]] (1930–2016), self-described "Holocaust revisionist" and founder of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.
* [[Brandon Russell|Brandon Clint Russell]] (1995–), founder of the Atomwaffen Division.
* [[Christopher Charles Cantwell]] (1980–), better known as the "Crying Nazi".
* [[David Duke|David Ernest Duke]] (1950–), Statesian politician and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
* [[David Irving|David John Cawdell Irving]] (1938–), British author, historian, and prominent Holocaust denier.
* [[David Myatt|David Wulstan Myatt]] (1950–), leader of the Order of Nine Angles (allegedly) and prominent British neo-Nazi.
* [[Dean Irebodd]], also known as "DenierBud".
* [[Deanna Spingola]], author, conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, and host of the ''Spingola Speaks'' radio show.
* [[Dylann Roof|Dylann Storm Roof]] (1994–), perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting.
* [[Edward William Eberhardt Clark|Edward William "Teddy" Eberhardt Clark]] (1995<ref>https://www.nelsonmortuary.com/obituaries/edward-clark-2018</ref>–2018), Statesian neo-Nazi suspected of planning a massacre with his brother Jeffrey. Died from suicide by gunshot in 2018.
* [[Friedrich Paul Berg]] (1943–2019), Statesian engineer and Holocaust denier.
* [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] (1918–1967), founder and leader of both the American Nazi Party and the World Union of National Socialists until his assassination in 1967.
* [[Greg Raven]], CEO and President of the Legion for the Survival of Freedom.
* [[Jeffrey Raphiel Clark, Jr.|Jeffrey Raphiel "Raph" Clark, Jr.]], Statesian neo-Nazi suspected of planning a massacre with his brother Edward. Plead guilty to one count of criminal possession of a firearm and was sentenced to time served followed by three years of supervised release.<ref>https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/sep/14/u-s-judge-orders-extremist-released-201/?news-national</ref>
* [[John Clive Ball]], Canadian geologist and supposed "air photo expert" who claims that he can disprove the Holocaust by looking at blurry aerial photos of Nazi death camps and massacre sites taken during World War II.
* [[Jürgen Graf]] (1951–), Swiss author, translator, historian, and Holocaust denier.
* [[Léon Degrelle|Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle]] (1906–1994), Leader of the Rexist Party, SS-Standartenführer, and prominent Belgian neo-Nazi.
* [[Matthias Koehl|Matthias "Matt" Koehl Jr.]] (1935–2014), longest-serving Commander of the American Nazi Party and twice the Leader of the World Union of National Socialists.
* [[Joseph Sobran|Michael Joseph Sobran Jr.]] (1946–2010), Statesian paleoconservative columnist, fellow at the Mises Institute, and Holocaust denier.
* [[Pierre Marais (Holocaust denier)|Pierre Marais]] (1921–2019), French Holocaust denier convicted for the crime.
* [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Bertrand Spencer]] (1978–), President of the National Policy Institute and prominent figure of the alt-right.
* [[Ron Unz|Ronald "Ron" Keeva Unz]] (1961–), Statesian politician, political activist, writer, multi-millionaire, and Holocaust deniers.
* [[Santiago Alvarez (Holocaust denier)|Santiago Alvarez]] (likely a pseudonym), author of ''The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation'' (2011).
* [[Vasillios George Pistolis]], former lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, member of the Atomwaffen Division, and participant in the Unite the Right rally.  Pistolis was court martialed, imprisoned, had his pay docked, and was separated from the USMC for his affiliation with extremist groups, his participation in the Unite the Right rally (during which he committed numerous acts of violence), and him lying about it afterwards.
* [[Willis Carto|Willis Allison Carto]] (1926–2015), Statesian neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier who founded or helped found the ''American Free Press'', the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment, the Institute for Historical Review, the Liberty Lobby, the National Youth Alliance, and the Populist Party.


== Phrases ==


* '''Blood and Soil''' - A slogan calling for the unification of blood (people of the "correct" racial group) and soil (vast stretches of arable land), i.e., a slogan calling for the removal of indigenous peoples from their land so that the people of the "correct" racial group can settle on and cultivate the land.
* '''Circle Forever, Forever Circle''' - The 'Circle' being referred to is the Aryan Circle, a neo-Nazi prison gang. Anyone who says this is pledging their allegiance to the group for life.
* '''Fourteen Words''' - Two neo-Nazi and White supremacist slogans created by David Eden Lane. The first, more infamous one is "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children", and the second is "because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the Earth."
* '''Good Night Left Nut''' - Most likely a variant of the phrase "Good Night Left Side". On 22 August 2017 at an anti-Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona, officer Christopher Turiano of the Phoenix Police Department shot a protestor named Joshua Cobin in the groin with non-lethal ammunition after he kicked a tear gas canister towards police. Later in February 2021, the existence and circulation of a coin with the inscription "Good Night Left Nut" on one side and a caricature of Cobin on the other (obviously commemorating the event) was made public.
* '''Good Night Left Side''' - A far-right, neo-Nazi slogan popular in Europe, North America, and Israel which threatens violence against anyone perceived as "left-wing". The slogan is often accompanied by an image of a right-winger brutalising a left-winger and/or left-wing symbols.
* '''My Honour is Loyalty''' - A motto of the Waffen-SS. "Meine Ehre heißt Treue" in the original German.
* '''Never Lose Your Smile''' - A slogan essentially telling neo-Nazis to never lose sight of or hope for Hitler's vision. The 'smile' this phrase is referring to is the "Totenkopf", a skull and crossbones symbol used heavily by the Nazis.
* '''Our Folk Is Our Faith''' - A variant of "Our Race Is Our Nation". They're often used in conjunction with one another.
* '''Our Race Is Our Nation''' - A white supremacist slogan which values racial ties above national ties.
* '''Right Wing Death Squad''' - Originally used to refer to right-wing paramilitary groups in Latin America who targetted and murdered left-wingers, this phrase has since been adopted by the Statesian far-right to refer to themselves.
* '''Six Million Cookies''' - A "joke" used to express scepticism regarding the number of Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust (commonly estimated to be 6 million). Holocaust deniers argue that it was not mathematically possible for the [[enwiki:Cookie_Monster|Cookie Monster]] (the Nazis) to have baked (gassed) six million cookies (Jews) in the span of just four years (1941–1945) given the number of ovens (gas chambers); even though the claim being made is not that six million Jews were ''gassed'', but that six million Jews were ''murdered''.
* '''White Power''' - Self-explanatory.
* '''White Pride''' - Self-explanatory.
* '''White Pride Worldwide''' - Self-explanatory.
* '''You Will Not Replace Us''' - A reference to the white replacement conspiracy theory.


== Publications ==


* [[American Free Press|''American Free Press'']]
Testimony of ULRICH VON GIENANTH, taken at Nurnberg, Germany, 30 April 1946, by Mr. O. John Rogge, 1430 – 1700. Also present: Dr. R. M. W. Kempner; Mr. Paul E. Ertzinger; Piilani A. Ahuna, Court Reporter.
* [[Journal of Historical Review|''Journal of Historical Review'']]
* [[Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung|''Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung'']]


== Talk Shows ==
(The interrogation was conducted in English.)


* [[The Political Cesspool|''The Political Cesspool'']]
== MY WORK FOR THE GERMAN LIBRARY OF INFORMATION IN NEW YORK ==
QUESTION BY MR. ROGGE:


== Websites ==
Q: Now, Mr. Gienanth, will you tell us the full story of your activities in the United States during the time you served there as a representative of the German Government?


* [[Gab]]
A: In February or March, 1935, I was engaged by the Propaganda Ministry to start a German library of information in New York in accordance with the proposal of the propaganda attache, Dr. Sallet, in Washington. I was engaged by the chief of the foreign division of the Propaganda Ministry, Mr. Hasenoerl, and Mr. von Feldmann, in charge of the American desk at this division.
* [[GoyFundMe]] (defunct)
* [[Iron March]] (defunct)
* [[Metapedia]]
* [[Stormfront (website)|Stormfront]]
* [[The Daily Stormer|''The Daily Stormer'']]
* [[The Unz Review|''The Unz Review'']]
* [[Total Fascism|''Total Fascism'']] (defunct)


== Other/Misc. ==
I arrived in the States in April and found out upon my arrival that the German embassy in Washington and the Consul General in New York had not been informed about those plans and that they did not agree with — and therefore, did not agree with my plans. For this reason, I used my team at once to reorganize the Junior Year for American Students in Munich which kept me active until the end of July.


* '''((()))''' - See "Triple Parentheses".
As this trouble with the Consulate and the Embassy went on, after a certain time in Washington I took a small apartment in New York somewhere about 85th West Street. The address can be found in the telephone book in New York. I forgot it.
* '''Echo''' - See "Triple Parentheses".
* '''Triple Brackets''' - See "Triple Parentheses".
* '''Triple Parentheses''' - Used to highlight that someone or something thought to be Jewish.


== References ==
In December, a member of the Propaganda Ministry who had. .
 
Q: This is December 1935?
 
A: Yes, December 1935, a member of the Propaganda Ministry who had carried out a trip throughout the States for the organization of gramophone record archives had a conversation with the Consulate General and he finally agreed that I should move into the Consulate. Up to that time I had a large collection of books which had arrived from Berlin in my apartment and I had worked out some answers to questions which had come into the Consulate from the American public.
 
From spring, 1936, I had my own room in the Consulate, was a member of the Consulate, and had my own secretary. My work consisted of answering requests for information which came in from the public, such as questions from magazines like Time and Fortune, from newspapers, for encyclopedias and schools, etc. During that time I had — my correspondence with Germany was very large. Because we had no similar office in Berlin to collect the material for the library there, I had to correspond with all different kinds of Party offices, Government bureaus, private societies, etc. Besides that I still had a large, constant correspondence with the exchange students' service because I still helped the Junior Year along with advice and help.
 
In the summer of 1936 and 37 I spent some time in Germany and in the summer of 1937 I was appointed attache of the Propaganda Ministry in the Embassy as superior of the above mentioned Dr. Sallet. Until spring, 1938, I still had to direct the work of the library in New York myself besides my job as attache and I mostly spent two or three days in New York to do this work.
 
In spring, 1938, Mr. Beller who had been engaged by the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin came to New York and took over the library. In the course of his presence in New York, the library enlarged to a certain extent. Two secretaries, female secretaries, who were engaged by the Propaganda Ministry came to New York. Because Mr. Beller, however, did not do the work well enough, I asked Dr. Schmitz from Smith College to come in regular intervals to New York beginning in the winters of 1938 – 1939, to help Mr. Beller in drafting the answers and doing the work.
 
In May, 1939, the library information put out its first political publication by sending out the speech of Hitler which he gave at the end of April, in the form of pamphlets in the English language. In the spring of 1940, Mr. Beller returned to Germany at his own request. Dr. Schmitz, who was in Germany in the summer of 1939...
 
Q: This is Matthias Schmitz all the time?
 
A: Yes.
 
Q: You met the other Schmitz, didn't you?
 
A: Yes.
 
Q: Didn't you mention something about the meetings at his house?
 
A: No. At his house only once or twice.
 
Q: Didn't you know something about the money he spent?
 
A: I never saw his expenditure account.
 
Q: It was substantial.
 
A: Yes, I suppose so. He had quite an office and did quite a lot of work.
 
Q: it wasn't just tourist traffic.
 
A: What he did besides tourist traffic I don't know.
 
Q: It was on propaganda because I saw some of the reports which he submitted. I saw them.
 
A: If you mean those mimeographed reports, I saw those also, yes.
 
Q: No, I don't mean those. He wrote reports back copies of which are in the foreign office in the United States so I know he was engaged in propaganda activities and it seems to me that one engaged in the propaganda ministry should have known about that. How could he engage on propaganda in such a large scale and the embassy not know about it?
 
A: He was very secretive. He wanted to impress Berlin always as a very important man.
 
Q: You would call him an egotist?
 
A: yes.. He is the kind of a man who likes to boast about the things he did.
 
Q: He certainly did that with his written documents. If he did the things which he said he did his activities would reach such a scale I don't know how you did not learn about them. Well, go on with your story.
 
A: ...returned to New York in October and was made the second man in charge of the library. He was with Smith College by that time. After Mr. Beller had left, Dr. Schmitz became director of the library.
 
During the course of the war the library increased to a staff of about 30 employees. Should I tell you the names as far as I can remember them? They are on record on New York...
 
Q: I think for the time being we can leave them out. I think we have most of them.
 
A: Frankly, I couldn't give more than 5 or 6 altogether.
 
Q: That's all right, we can leave that for the time being.
 
A: This was a proof to me about how many names I have forgotten. The library information, during the war, worked one part for the foreign office and on the other part for the propaganda ministry. In this way the library was also financed and Dr. Schmitz personally had contact with the propaganda ministry before leaving Germany.
 
In the beginning, when he arrived, a new order had been issued by Hitler that all political propaganda in foreign countries was subject to the foreign office and not to the Propaganda Ministry. Therefore, all things in this line carried out by the library of information had to be financed and were financed by the foreign office. So far as I remember, by the Cultural Division in the foreign office, at the time under Mr. Altenburg.
 
Those subjects included first: Facts in Review; Second, all white books; third, Information on Political Problems, Salaries for people who worked for it, etc.; Fourth, cutting of records of the speeches of the German shortwave transmitters which sometimes were used as material for facts in review.
 
The cultural section of the library information was financed by money from the Propaganda Ministry. First, publication of bulletins  on this subject, for instance, German forests; salaries connected with it, for instance, foreign scientists who had come from Japan — I don't know his name although he worked in the library for quite a while. Second, Kaspar David Frederick's book on this painter. Third, the section with films and gramophone records to be laid out.
 
Dr. Schmitz personally, as I mentioned, had a contact with the Propaganda Ministry. According to the order from Berlin concerning political propaganda, the Consulate General, upon order of the foreign office, made a contact with Schmitz on a higher salary but despite that Schmitz got his old salary from the Propaganda Ministry. The two secretaries who had been engaged during the time of Dr. Beller remained at the Consulate. Both of them returned during the war so far as I remember. They returned during the war before the end of diplomatic relations.
 
The additional amount which the library information got from the Propaganda Ministry came, so far as I guess, directly from Berlin upon proposal of Dr. Schmitz directly to Berlin. I don't know those details anymore. It's too far back. Dr. Schmitz certainly would know all the details about it.
 
Q: One of the things in which I am interested is the amount of money the German library of information got from Germany. It must have exceeded $50,000 in cash.
 
A: Altogether during the war?
 
Q: During the years 1940 and 1941.
 
A: I couldn't give you an answer on that as to whether that's correct, but I did not go into all the expenses of facts in review and for all of these other activities. If one goes into the expenses of these activities one should get quite a complete record on it. The Facts in Review was printed in New York and Schmitz must have known about it. I didn't hand the money over, it was handed over by Mr. von Strempel.
 
Q: He did. How did you know that?
 
A: I know because if I had to get some money personally I always had to tell von Strempel. That's what I remember. Maybe it came from Berlin directly too, I don't know.
 
Q: The money from the Embassy, the $60,000 I am talking about, Strempel carried to New York from time to time.
 
A: That's beyond my knowledge.
 
Q: That amazes me, but nevertheless, go ahead.
 
A: The accounting of the money which the library information spent for the propaganda ministry was countersigned by myself.
 
Q: Then how come you couldn't remember about this money that was sent by the Embassy?
 
A: I only know of the money from the propaganda ministry.
 
Q: You only countersigned for the money of the propaganda ministry?
 
A: Yes.
 
Q: Go ahead.
 
A: The amount of this money I do not remember in particular anymore. But, concerning the money spent in the first half year of 1941, I left in the safe in the Embassy in Washington, with my signature underneath, but with the name "Library Information" cut out with a scissors. I did that — I kept that statement there because we were not allowed to take any reports along to Germany. Neither did Schmitz when he returned, nor myself, and I wanted to be able to state, after the war, clearly how much money the Consulate had handed out to the library for the propaganda ministry, or vice versa, how much money the library of information had given back to the Consulate.
 
== MY DUTIES AS ATTACHE OF THE PROPAGANDA MINISTRY IN WASHINGTON ==

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Testimony of ULRICH VON GIENANTH, taken at Nurnberg, Germany, 30 April 1946, by Mr. O. John Rogge, 1430 – 1700. Also present: Dr. R. M. W. Kempner; Mr. Paul Ertzinger; Piilani A. Ahuna, Court Reporter.


INDEX

My work for the German Library of Information in New York.......................1 – 7

My Duties as Attache of the Propaganda Ministry in Washington.....................8 – 14

The Financial Means at my Disposal.............14 – 17

My Position in Washington During the War..........18 – 21

Laura Ingalls........................21 – 23




Testimony of ULRICH VON GIENANTH, taken at Nurnberg, Germany, 30 April 1946, by Mr. O. John Rogge, 1430 – 1700. Also present: Dr. R. M. W. Kempner; Mr. Paul E. Ertzinger; Piilani A. Ahuna, Court Reporter.

(The interrogation was conducted in English.)

MY WORK FOR THE GERMAN LIBRARY OF INFORMATION IN NEW YORK

QUESTION BY MR. ROGGE:

Q: Now, Mr. Gienanth, will you tell us the full story of your activities in the United States during the time you served there as a representative of the German Government?

A: In February or March, 1935, I was engaged by the Propaganda Ministry to start a German library of information in New York in accordance with the proposal of the propaganda attache, Dr. Sallet, in Washington. I was engaged by the chief of the foreign division of the Propaganda Ministry, Mr. Hasenoerl, and Mr. von Feldmann, in charge of the American desk at this division.

I arrived in the States in April and found out upon my arrival that the German embassy in Washington and the Consul General in New York had not been informed about those plans and that they did not agree with — and therefore, did not agree with my plans. For this reason, I used my team at once to reorganize the Junior Year for American Students in Munich which kept me active until the end of July.

As this trouble with the Consulate and the Embassy went on, after a certain time in Washington I took a small apartment in New York somewhere about 85th West Street. The address can be found in the telephone book in New York. I forgot it.

In December, a member of the Propaganda Ministry who had. .

Q: This is December 1935?

A: Yes, December 1935, a member of the Propaganda Ministry who had carried out a trip throughout the States for the organization of gramophone record archives had a conversation with the Consulate General and he finally agreed that I should move into the Consulate. Up to that time I had a large collection of books which had arrived from Berlin in my apartment and I had worked out some answers to questions which had come into the Consulate from the American public.

From spring, 1936, I had my own room in the Consulate, was a member of the Consulate, and had my own secretary. My work consisted of answering requests for information which came in from the public, such as questions from magazines like Time and Fortune, from newspapers, for encyclopedias and schools, etc. During that time I had — my correspondence with Germany was very large. Because we had no similar office in Berlin to collect the material for the library there, I had to correspond with all different kinds of Party offices, Government bureaus, private societies, etc. Besides that I still had a large, constant correspondence with the exchange students' service because I still helped the Junior Year along with advice and help.

In the summer of 1936 and 37 I spent some time in Germany and in the summer of 1937 I was appointed attache of the Propaganda Ministry in the Embassy as superior of the above mentioned Dr. Sallet. Until spring, 1938, I still had to direct the work of the library in New York myself besides my job as attache and I mostly spent two or three days in New York to do this work.

In spring, 1938, Mr. Beller who had been engaged by the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin came to New York and took over the library. In the course of his presence in New York, the library enlarged to a certain extent. Two secretaries, female secretaries, who were engaged by the Propaganda Ministry came to New York. Because Mr. Beller, however, did not do the work well enough, I asked Dr. Schmitz from Smith College to come in regular intervals to New York beginning in the winters of 1938 – 1939, to help Mr. Beller in drafting the answers and doing the work.

In May, 1939, the library information put out its first political publication by sending out the speech of Hitler which he gave at the end of April, in the form of pamphlets in the English language. In the spring of 1940, Mr. Beller returned to Germany at his own request. Dr. Schmitz, who was in Germany in the summer of 1939...

Q: This is Matthias Schmitz all the time?

A: Yes.

Q: You met the other Schmitz, didn't you?

A: Yes.

Q: Didn't you mention something about the meetings at his house?

A: No. At his house only once or twice.

Q: Didn't you know something about the money he spent?

A: I never saw his expenditure account.

Q: It was substantial.

A: Yes, I suppose so. He had quite an office and did quite a lot of work.

Q: it wasn't just tourist traffic.

A: What he did besides tourist traffic I don't know.

Q: It was on propaganda because I saw some of the reports which he submitted. I saw them.

A: If you mean those mimeographed reports, I saw those also, yes.

Q: No, I don't mean those. He wrote reports back copies of which are in the foreign office in the United States so I know he was engaged in propaganda activities and it seems to me that one engaged in the propaganda ministry should have known about that. How could he engage on propaganda in such a large scale and the embassy not know about it?

A: He was very secretive. He wanted to impress Berlin always as a very important man.

Q: You would call him an egotist?

A: yes.. He is the kind of a man who likes to boast about the things he did.

Q: He certainly did that with his written documents. If he did the things which he said he did his activities would reach such a scale I don't know how you did not learn about them. Well, go on with your story.

A: ...returned to New York in October and was made the second man in charge of the library. He was with Smith College by that time. After Mr. Beller had left, Dr. Schmitz became director of the library.

During the course of the war the library increased to a staff of about 30 employees. Should I tell you the names as far as I can remember them? They are on record on New York...

Q: I think for the time being we can leave them out. I think we have most of them.

A: Frankly, I couldn't give more than 5 or 6 altogether.

Q: That's all right, we can leave that for the time being.

A: This was a proof to me about how many names I have forgotten. The library information, during the war, worked one part for the foreign office and on the other part for the propaganda ministry. In this way the library was also financed and Dr. Schmitz personally had contact with the propaganda ministry before leaving Germany.

In the beginning, when he arrived, a new order had been issued by Hitler that all political propaganda in foreign countries was subject to the foreign office and not to the Propaganda Ministry. Therefore, all things in this line carried out by the library of information had to be financed and were financed by the foreign office. So far as I remember, by the Cultural Division in the foreign office, at the time under Mr. Altenburg.

Those subjects included first: Facts in Review; Second, all white books; third, Information on Political Problems, Salaries for people who worked for it, etc.; Fourth, cutting of records of the speeches of the German shortwave transmitters which sometimes were used as material for facts in review.

The cultural section of the library information was financed by money from the Propaganda Ministry. First, publication of bulletins on this subject, for instance, German forests; salaries connected with it, for instance, foreign scientists who had come from Japan — I don't know his name although he worked in the library for quite a while. Second, Kaspar David Frederick's book on this painter. Third, the section with films and gramophone records to be laid out.

Dr. Schmitz personally, as I mentioned, had a contact with the Propaganda Ministry. According to the order from Berlin concerning political propaganda, the Consulate General, upon order of the foreign office, made a contact with Schmitz on a higher salary but despite that Schmitz got his old salary from the Propaganda Ministry. The two secretaries who had been engaged during the time of Dr. Beller remained at the Consulate. Both of them returned during the war so far as I remember. They returned during the war before the end of diplomatic relations.

The additional amount which the library information got from the Propaganda Ministry came, so far as I guess, directly from Berlin upon proposal of Dr. Schmitz directly to Berlin. I don't know those details anymore. It's too far back. Dr. Schmitz certainly would know all the details about it.

Q: One of the things in which I am interested is the amount of money the German library of information got from Germany. It must have exceeded $50,000 in cash.

A: Altogether during the war?

Q: During the years 1940 and 1941.

A: I couldn't give you an answer on that as to whether that's correct, but I did not go into all the expenses of facts in review and for all of these other activities. If one goes into the expenses of these activities one should get quite a complete record on it. The Facts in Review was printed in New York and Schmitz must have known about it. I didn't hand the money over, it was handed over by Mr. von Strempel.

Q: He did. How did you know that?

A: I know because if I had to get some money personally I always had to tell von Strempel. That's what I remember. Maybe it came from Berlin directly too, I don't know.

Q: The money from the Embassy, the $60,000 I am talking about, Strempel carried to New York from time to time.

A: That's beyond my knowledge.

Q: That amazes me, but nevertheless, go ahead.

A: The accounting of the money which the library information spent for the propaganda ministry was countersigned by myself.

Q: Then how come you couldn't remember about this money that was sent by the Embassy?

A: I only know of the money from the propaganda ministry.

Q: You only countersigned for the money of the propaganda ministry?

A: Yes.

Q: Go ahead.

A: The amount of this money I do not remember in particular anymore. But, concerning the money spent in the first half year of 1941, I left in the safe in the Embassy in Washington, with my signature underneath, but with the name "Library Information" cut out with a scissors. I did that — I kept that statement there because we were not allowed to take any reports along to Germany. Neither did Schmitz when he returned, nor myself, and I wanted to be able to state, after the war, clearly how much money the Consulate had handed out to the library for the propaganda ministry, or vice versa, how much money the library of information had given back to the Consulate.

MY DUTIES AS ATTACHE OF THE PROPAGANDA MINISTRY IN WASHINGTON