Ernst Hanfstaengl
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Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (February 2, 1887 – November 6, 1975), was a Harvard-educated German businessman who was an intimate of Adolf Hitler before falling out of favor and defecting. He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt and was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes.
In popular culture
Hanfstaengl has rarely been mentioned or portrayed in dramatizations of Hitler's life or of life in Nazi Germany. He was, however, an important supporting character in both the TV movie Hitler: The Rise of Evil (in which he was portrayed by Liev Schreiber) and author Ron Hansen's historical fiction novel Hitler's Niece. He also features as a character in Roger L. Conlee's novel The Hindenburg Letter, set in Berlin in 1942, and Faye Kellerman's novel Straight into Darkness, set in Munich in 1929. He was portrayed by British actor Ronald Pickup in the 1990 TV mini series The Nightmare Years, based on William Shirer's 1960 historical study, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He was frequently mentioned in 2011's In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, the story of the U.S. Ambassador (1933-1937) William E. Dodd and his family in prewar Berlin. Hanfstaengl is also profiled in Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power.
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