Leopold Schwarzschild, editor of Das Neue Tagebuch, German emigre weekly, expresses doubt, in an article, regarding the authenticity of a purported letter from Fritz Thyssen, self-exiled German industrialist, published in the Argentinische Tageblatt of Buenos Aires in which Thyssen was represented as calling on the workers to overthrow Hitler and establish a federated Germany.
Schwarzschild says that such a letter would be a departure from Thyssen’s reticence and that the letter did not seem to be of the kind that Thyssen would write. Schwarzschild also raises the possibility that Thyssen was sent abroad as a “reserve position” to negotiate, if it becomes necessary for the Nazis, a peace involving only removal of certain of the Nazi leaders rather than a complete overthrow of the regime.
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