Edward Schultz person
also: Schulte, Schultz
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Claims (8)
Edward Schultz spied_on
Soviet Union book_quoted
“They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 21:28
Edward Schultz spied_on
Poland book_quoted
“They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 21:28
Edward Schultz exposed
Holocaust book_quoted
“The State Department again received word of systematic use of gas facilities. German industrialist Edward Schultz had smuggled new information concerning the murders into Switzerland and arranged to have it delivered to both the US and the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 12:06
Edward Schultz spied_on
West Germany book_quoted
“for example, owned strategically important zinc mines and other real estate near what once what had been the German-Polish border. He was a conservative Christian Democrat and committed to anti-Nazi-ism, who repeatedly risked his life and f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 20:34
Edward Schultz spied_on
Netherlands speculative
“They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 21:28
Edward Schultz spied_on
Belgium speculative
“They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 21:28
Edward Schultz spied_on
Norway speculative
“They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 21:28
Edward Schultz spied_on
Denmark speculative
“They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 21:28
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the listening post for Europe, should have forced action, but it didn't. On July 17th, 1942, Heinrich Himmler had a luxurious private train equipped with a dining room shower pull into Auschwitz. They, let's see, the chief executive of a mi…
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This was one that was set up for IG Farben. There were also, in addition to Farben, labor camps set up for Volkswagen, Siemens, and Krupp. Himmler's SS empire moved aggressively to cut in on, basically they were taxing these, making them pa…
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Schultz was still unaware of why he was visiting Auschwitz. Himmler was there to witness what was referred to as Bunker 2. That afternoon, Himmler had watched a group of prisoners being transported from Holland and marched into Bunker 2 and…
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He was seen drinking wine, hanging around, smoking a cigar as if nothing happened. Edward Schultz was finding out throughout this party why they were there. And of course, he was shocked. So he began, he had a penance for hunting and hangin…
▶ 20:44
And he began contacting, so he's traveled to Switzerland a lot for his mining company. And he had people, both Jewish and non-Jewish in Switzerland that he met routinely with. And so he begins meeting with them to share information about wh…
▶ 21:15
An IG Farben official by the name of Ernst Struss was returning home on a train after inspecting the company's factory near Auschwitz. A German worker was also riding on that train talking loudly about the nightmare at the camp because basi…
▶ 21:43
And he was basically yelled at and told to shut up. Edward Schultz was not one of the men that could hide or deny the truth. So on July 29, 1942, he was on a trip to Zurich. He was determined to put information in the hands of the Allies. T…
▶ 22:17
with wife and family back in Germany. But the revelations of what was going on gave him a sense of urgency. So Schultz kept to his normal routine when doing business in Switzerland, checking in at the same hotel where he had been an honored…
▶ 22:46
into the international Jewish organizations of what was going on and thought that was his best shot. If the allies failed to act, there would be few, if any, Jews left in Europe by the end of the year, he said, and that Koppelman should be …
▶ 23:20
reveals a lot. Though Kuppelman's efforts, through his efforts, Schultz's message was delivered to Gerhardt Rigner, a young Genevan representative of the World Jewish Congress. Rigner, in return, was intent on relaying the information to th…
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that he was very skeptical of what he was being told. Harrison dismissed it as nothing more than war rumors, although he did concede to maltreatment, malnourishment, and disease. The State Department later sent the OSS a summary of the repo…
▶ 24:49
was one of those that received the message. The State Department flatly refused to believe Schultz's account, calling it wild rumors. Even Harrison's concession that some of the Jews were dying in the labor camps was stripped out of the Sta…
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two days before Thanksgiving, announcing that Hitler had already killed at least 2 million European Jews and had planned to exterminate the rest. The New York Times story on page 10. The Washington Post wrote about it on page 6. The press w…
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History would give Dulles one more chance to alert the world of the ongoing genocide. In Switzerland, he would hear directly from the men like Schultz and others who had risked their lives to save people in Germany. In Bern, the evil was no…
▶ 27:42
When the two men finally did come together in the spring of 43 at a meeting in Zurich, it was amicable enough. They had met 15 years earlier, they realized, in the New York office of Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented Anaconda Copper,…
▶ 28:11
the regime change in Chile of Salvador Allende. And I found it interesting to know that Sullivan and Cromwell was representing them too, just like they were representing United Fruit in Guatemala. The fate of the Jewish people was still of …
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But Dulles expressed little interest in Schultz's information, more intrigued by the politics and psychological mood of the German people and how they could be won over by the Allies. Dulles asked Schultz to write up a memo on the state of …
▶ 20:06
and their sources of information concerning the exterminations was limited to the usual business and social conduct of people that worked at these facilities. Nonetheless, within weeks after the gassings began, these men were able to report…
▶ 20:34
for example, owned strategically important zinc mines and other real estate near what once what had been the German-Polish border. He was a conservative Christian Democrat and committed to anti-Nazi-ism, who repeatedly risked his life and f…
▶ 21:28
They showed off their knowledge in casual conversations. The results of this simple espionage was impressive. Schulte provided early warnings to the Allies of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviets in 1941. And perhaps, th…
▶ 21:57
He passed on dozens of bits of information concerning German military campaigns, petroleum stocks, and resource shortages. His information was sometimes incorrect. The Allied agents who handled him from Zurich had little doubt that Schulte …
▶ 22:25
the final solution in an urgent message to a representative of the World Jewish Congress in Zurich. The details were sketchy, but Schultz accurately reported that Hitler had decided to kill everybody they were labeling a deportee as quickly…
▶ 12:06
The State Department again received word of systematic use of gas facilities. German industrialist Edward Schultz had smuggled new information concerning the murders into Switzerland and arranged to have it delivered to both the US and the …
▶ 12:37
Durbrow, and R. Borden Reams were convinced that Hitler's mistreatment of Jews was limited to forced labor and petty persecution. Schultz's message was a wild rumor, they said, and refused to transmit the intelligence to Roosevelt. They did…