An investigation by the Immigration Department here is believed to be the cause for the sudden return to Germany, on the Europa from New York Tuesday night, of Heinz Spanknoebel, Hitler’s personal representative in America in the organization of a subsidiary Nazi movement in the United States.
John L. Zurbrick, head of the local Immigration Bureau, said that his bureau sought to determine whether or not Spanknoebel’s activities violated immigration laws. Mr. Spanknoebel was active in organizing the “League of the American Friends of the Hitler Movement” besides Nazi chapters in Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Union City, N. J., as well as in New York.
It is also believed that the orders sent from Berlin to disband the Nazi organization in America came as a result of the reported investigation by Immigration authorities here.
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