H.V. Kaltenborn(1878-1965)
- Actor
Hans V. Kaltenborn had some colorful experiences in 1933 at the advent
of Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany and the founding of Nazism
there. Being of German descent he may have had a blind admiration for
the discipline and precision of the Nazi German youth. He refused to
believe reports that the S.A. roughnecks routinely insulted and beat up
American visitors to Germany who did not show due regard for their
street parades nor lifted their arms in the Nazi salute. His adulation
for Nazi Germany came crashing down in 1933 when for failing to stand
still and salute the parade he was verbally insulted and his son
physically assaulted. He received a rude shock and made a complaint to
the American Consulate in Berlin but nothing came of it. This incident
is well documented in the book titled In the Garden of Beasts by Erik
Larson.
