Podcast D1. Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha & Emily Hall Tremaine: Nazis in California (pt 1)

Audio research briefs | D1. Intro for Emily crowd | D2. Media reaction to Duke visit & secret deposition about event fr Emily | D3. Consular report on LA area visits by German Consul to LA, in the Political Archive, Berlin

In March / April 1940, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, Queen Victoria's grandson, Head of the German Red Cross, and ally to Hitler toured the United States. He met with various American socialites, businessmen and politicians, including President Roosevelt. This was after the European war had begun. One event took place at the villa of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) in Montecito, California in April.

This event was mentioned as evidence by Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr. in the "He's a Nazi, no SHE is" divorce case, alleging that Emily was pro-Nazi. This was three months after she alleged that he was pro-Nazi.

In this audio brief, R. J. Preece of artdesigncafe refers to news reporting, an unearthed secret deposition of Emily in 1940 during a nasty divorce attempt, declassified documentation in the Political Archive in Berlin, and O. John Rogge's report about Nazi activity in America.

Was Emily a California Nazi, a U. S. patriot-spy or both?

Other historical persons mentioned include Elza Temary, Ellis M. Zacharias, Alma Spreckels, and German Consul to Los Angeles Georg Gyssling.

For more information about Emily's crazy 1930s and her fab art collection built after WWII with Burton Tremaine, go to https://www.artdesigncafe.com/emily-hall-tremaine