Smith brothers person
also: Smit, S-C-H-M-I-D-T, Smiths
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West Germanycountry · 3Allen Dullesperson · 3Washington, D.C.place · 2Viennaplace · 1Bernplace · 1Messerschmittorganization · 1Nazi Partyorganization · 1Henry Morgenthau Jr.person · 1
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Allen Dulles recruited
Smith brothers book_quoted
“that inevitably arise in such programs. They were a pair of brothers said to be named Smit, S-C-H-M-I-D-T. Dulles wasn't certain of the details. One of them ran a munitions plant, and the other was a senior executive at Meisersmit, Messer, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:41
Smith brothers member_of
Messerschmitt book_quoted
“that inevitably arise in such programs. They were a pair of brothers said to be named Smit, S-C-H-M-I-D-T. Dulles wasn't certain of the details. One of them ran a munitions plant, and the other was a senior executive at Meisersmit, Messer, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:41
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▶ 1:41
that inevitably arise in such programs. They were a pair of brothers said to be named Smit, S-C-H-M-I-D-T. Dulles wasn't certain of the details. One of them ran a munitions plant, and the other was a senior executive at Meisersmit, Messer, …
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in charge of that company's construction and underground facilities. They also had war plane plants near Vienna. Now that the war was clearly lost, Dulles said, the Smith brothers were looking for a safe way out. The ethical dilemma was obv…
▶ 4:09
to the Smiths, then exactly how far and on what terms should the protection extend? In this case, Dulles based his appeal for the Smiths on very flimsy evidence. He told Washington that he had been quote-unquote reliably informed that the t…
▶ 4:37
but he had it on concrete fact that they were the good guys. Don't know who they are, but they're the good guys. And what of the Smiths who contacted the OSS after the Germans surrender? Should they too receive the same amnesty as quote-unq…
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In the last days of 1944, as Dulles was in Bern drafting his brief for the Smith brothers, Morgenthau was in Washington drawing up what amounted to a manifesto on Germany for Roosevelt. Three points seem basic to Morgenthau. Germany had the…