intention of bringing politics in his projected German Day address and that he was willing to submit copies of it to the press, mayor, and other interested parties prior to its delivery.
The committee appointed to see the mayor included: Dr. Popcke, Dr. I. T. Griebl, former magistrate Charles A. Oberwager, Charles Nicolai, Bernard Kleinschmidt, Dr. Peter J. Kesseler, John H. Werdemann, John H. Ducker, Hans Holterbosch, Joe Thum and Eugene S. Caplan.
Heinz Spanknoebel, chief Nazi propagandist in the United States, was accused yesterday of attempting to control the German-American press. Charges were lodged by Victor and Bernard Ridder, publishers of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung and the Journal of Commerce, who made the allegation through the medium of their own publications and statements to the press. According to the statement given to the press by the Ridder brothers, the Nazi “agent” attempted to dictate their editorial policies to the brothers shortly after his arrival in New York last July.
“He showed us credentials from the Nazi Pressestelle in Berlin,” the Ridders related. “He demanded that we submit our paper to his censorship. We threw him out.”
The Ridder statement also asserted that Spanknoebel had managed to put the United German Societies under Nazi control and that through threats of reprisal against relatives in Germany had successfully “gleichgeschaltet” German individuals and business houses in the United States.
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