The Press: Zapp Trapped

He lived in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. A small, dark, dapper man, with horn-rimmed glasses and big beak nose anchored by a full mustache, he might have passed as a Hollywood executive, a clothing manufacturer or a prosperous refugee. Few would have spotted him for what he really was.

Last week a special Federal grand jury identified him in no uncertain terms. He was Dr. Manfred Zapp, 38, alias Hermann Nille, alias Otto W. Hermann, son of a Ruhr steel tycoon, head of the German Transocean News Service, and No. 1 Nazi propagandist for the...

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