Ernst Hanfstaengl

✶February 2, 1887

†November 6, 1975

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About their life

Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a German American businessman and close friend of Adolf Hitler. He eventually fell out of favour with Hitler and defected from Nazi Germany to the United States. He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes in the 1910s.

Nazi businessman, art dealer (1887-1975)

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