Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right--declare allegiance to the German
Government, and declare themselves Volkdeutsche, which means of
Germanic origin. Russia had many millions of people of that type, an
enormous German colony. So the Germans did it in order to get all those
Germans from the Volga Province into their own country. And all the
other people, like my father. And he declared himself willing to go to
Germany, and the Germans took him into Germany. He would rather be with
the Germans than with the Communists, and spent the rest of his life----
Mr. JENNER. Was your father still anti-Communist?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; very strongly anti-Communist----exceedingly
strongly anti-Communist, almost fanatically so. Naturally, he had the
sentence against him. And then he spent the rest of his life in Germany
and was killed at the end of the war in an air raid, as far as we
know--some air raid hit that place where he lived.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know what town it was?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; I don't know the town, but it is an old
castle in Oldenburg. It is near the Danish border. My brother is going
to go right now there to visit his tomb, because neither of us had the
time to go and see that place. But he is in Europe now, and he will go
and see the place where he was buried.
Eventually, we received some of his papers and documents and letters
through some German friends who stayed there with him.
Mr. JENNER. Now, I take it he was--we can at least fairly say that he
had sympathies, or was sympathetic with the German cause?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; I remember we exchanged letters with him
during the war through some friends in Argentina and in Japan, before
Japan got into the war. My father wrote me a letter in which he said,
"George, the Nazis are no good, and Germany is going to lose the war,
but I prefer to be in Germany than in Soviet Russia. At least I am free
and nobody is bothering me."
It was the policy of the Germans to protect the people who had some
positions in Czarist Russia. But he never became pro-Nazi. He was too
clear thinking for that. He liked the Germans all right, but he was not
pro-Nazi. But he hated Communism. That was his life's hatred.
Mr. JENNER. Now, we have you back in New York City--this is when we
went to lunch--around 1953--1952, 1953.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Your partnership with Mr. Hooker had terminated.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No, no; still active. I think it was in
1952--because I was not married--we still had the partnership. I was
visiting Ed Hooker in New York at that particular time, and through him
I met my next wife, my last wife.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, who was she?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Wynne Sharples.
Mr. JENNER. She at that time was a student?
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