Fritz's Return

Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler's company commander in World War I, German consul general in San Francisco for two stormy years and spy extraordinary for the Third Reich, was back in the U.S. for a brief stay last week. Newsmen who remembered Wiedemann as a tall, black-haired fashion plate scarcely recognized the baggy-suited, greying, unshaven man who deplaned from an Army transport at California's Hamilton Field.

After a shave Wiedemann lunched on a hamburger, chatted with Navy Lieut. Guy Martin, who had convoyed him from Tientsin. Newsmen stared at the briefcase chained to Martin's wrist, asked how the Nazi consul had been captured, were told curtly: "No interviews!"

Four hours after his arrival. Wiedemann was aboard a plane bound for Washington. There, too, reporters were told they could not talk to him, would not be told why he had been brought to Washington. Best guess: Hitler's onetime personal adjutant was to be a star witness at war crimes trials of top Nazis.

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