Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler's company commander in World War I, German consul general in San Francisco for two stormy years and spy extraordinary for the Third Reich, was back in the U.S. for a brief stay last week. Newsmen who remembered Wiedemann as a tall, black-haired fashion plate scarcely recognized the baggy-suited, greying, unshaven man who deplaned from an Army transport at California's Hamilton Field.
After a shave Wiedemann lunched on a hamburger, chatted with Navy Lieut. Guy Martin, who had convoyed him from Tientsin. Newsmen stared at the briefcase chained to Martin's wrist, asked how...
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