The question of the Nazi agent Hans Wesemann’s alleged consultations with the late German Ambassador, Prince Bismarck, on German emigres in England was again brought up in the House of Commons today by Arthur Henderson, Conservative.
Wesemann, who admitted having been in the employ of the Gestapo at the time he abducted Berthold Jakob, German Jewish refugee, from Switzerland into Germany, implicated the German Embassy in his plottings against other refugees at the recent Basle trial for the Jakob kidnaping.
Asked by Mr. Henderson whether some action shouldn’t be taken in view of the Wesemann admissions, Mr. Eden replied as follows:
“I have been assured by the German Embassy that Dr. Wesemann on his own initiative offered to supply them with information regarding the activities of certain groups of German emigres and was referred in the manner proscribed by official usage to the competent department of the German Government.”
A query on the same subject by Mr. Henderson Monday was dodged by Mr. Eden as “too delicate” to be answered.
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