Messersmith, G.S., Berlin. Despatch No. 1300 to Secretary of State [Cordell Hull], Washington.
Date
1933-05-11
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Abstract
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Reports arrest of two American citizens; Herbert Baer, residing in Karlsruhe with wife, arrested and imprisoned; neither wife nor lawyer can learn cause of arrest; Samuel Pliskin, student at Heidelberg, arrested and detained on charges that he "may have been disseminating cruelty propaganda"; American Consul at Stuttgart protested to Baden State authorities, but without results; on appeal from Stuttgart, sent [Raymond] Geist to Ministry of the Interior of the Reich in Berlin; Geist was assured Ministry would telephone Baden State authorities and the two men would be released at once unless there was some serious and definite charge against them.
Keywords
Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.