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NAZI PROPAGANDIST HAS PH.D.; TAUGHT SUMMER SCHOOL HERE

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Prowling around the New York office of the German Library of Information these days are agents from the Department of Justice. Among other facts unearthed about that pro-Nazi "news" factory is this one:

Dr. Mathias Schmitz, Director of the Library, has a Ph.D. from Harvard, and for two summers was a professor at the Summer School here in Cambridge. The Library publishes a weekly bulletin euphemistically titled "Facts in Review," in line with its policy of "facilitating an understanding of Germany, her countryside, her people, her government, and her cultural heritage."

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