Hanfstaengl Was Interned in Routine Manner, Son Holds

"My father was interned by the British authorities in a routine manner," stated Egon Hanfstaengl, son of the ex-Nazi foreign press chief, when asked to comment on his father's arrest in Scotland Sunday.

Hanfstaengl said that his father was doing historical research in Scotland when the war broke out. Hanfstaengl senior had hoped to come to America in a few months, but he was interned along with all other German citizens living in Great Britain, according to his son.

Putzi Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard in 1909, and was the subject of a great deal of comment when his offer of a gift of $10,000 to Harvard was rejected by the University. At that time he was still an intimate of Adolf Hitler, but he fell out with the Nazis a few years ago.