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Nazi ships with Schwinn and von Bulow (on one occasion
Schneeberger summoned Burchardi to come with him to a Nazi
ship which had just docked in Los Angeles and the physician
visits
dropped
his
work and went)
German exchange
.
students,
when
they enter this country, are
German-American Bund. On
three exchange students a young lady and two
July 4, 1936,
young men entered Los Angeles while on a motor tour of the
under instructions
to report to the
students at Georgia Tech. In Los Angeles
they went directly to the Deutsches Haus and presented a letter
of introduction to Hermann Schwinn who assigned them quarters
country.
They were
home
at the
of
students then
Max
made
Edgan, one of Schwinn
s
lieutenants.
a detailed report to Schwinn
work they were carrying out
But the professors are the
on
The
the political
Georgia Tech.
hope of Nazi agents attempt
to spread the idea of totalitarian government and a bit of
ing
race hatred as the bait to attract some elements in the popula
tion.
Some
at
chief
of the professors
and some of
their activities follow
briefly:
Professor Frederick E. Auhagen, formerly of the
German De
partment, Seth Low Junior College, Columbia University.
Dr. Auhagen came to this country in 1923 and worked as a
mining engineer in Pennsylvania. From 1925 to 1927 he was
with the Foreign Department of the Equitable Trust Co.; then
became connected with Columbia University in 1927. He is not
an American citizen and constantly refers to Germany as "my
native
country."
This professor is one of the leading academic apologists for
Herr Hitler in the United States. Besides carrying on his proNazi propaganda in the classroom, he does a great deal of lectur
ing, sometimes appearing before the Foreign Policy Association.
On one occasion, in an address before the Men s Club of the
Baptist
Church
at Rockville,
Long
Island,
he stated that Seth