EUGEN DOLLMANN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00868331
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2023
• Case Number: F-2022-01506
• Publication Date: November 24, 1954

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2. Alan ,ames, Munich Consulate I' litica1 Affairs Office , toldr '
:lthat DOLLMANN's confidant, Karl RUETER (see )0 visiPeo. James
ale his ...face 18 November. GRUETat said DOLLMANN ha:s written I. book, "Der
Feige Held" (The Cowardly Hero), about hi war experiences in Ita1b s
be pliElisned in ffilan. =IV gave Jame an excerpt of one or two chapters
which he said describe in some detail DO Is wartime experiences and con-
tacts with the Americans in Italy, and which he requested James or his people.
examine for content "which right possibly be offensive to the United States.�
He stressed the fact that DOLLMANN was so anxious: not to offend his great good
friendASCH. (with whom he allegedly had contact during W II), that he had
several mormns ago forwarded identical excerpts from this book to Mr. Eisenhower
for executive comment,-but.that strangely enough to date he had received no
reply. James expects to :take no action other than, a courteous reply to the ef-
fect that such advice is outside the Sate Departmentts province.
DOIIMANN is presently residing in Munich; however, according to
GRUETER, DOLLMANN plans to go to Madrid after the first of the year,to write a
biography of General FRANCO. DOLLMANN, GRUETEt said, is very close to the
General.
4. Despite the fact that GRUETER had in September pressed James hard
concerning possibleV: _.:Interest in DOLLKANNIs Communist-connected friend,
@HUNGER (subject of R'gf B), GRUETERIs only remark (when Jams volunteered that
the HUNGER matter still rested in the hands of appropriate U.S. officials) was:
u0h, that was just one of those things of the moment."
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5. The last word FOB has received on the DOLIMANN/HUNGER matter was in
3wherein.COM expresseddlgiotion of takinv no act'o, nt' they received
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