Real History and Himmler’s Links with Carl Langbehn The your Himmler index your Hitler index (Source: Allen Dulles papers, Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, box 37, file 1; no changes except for minor spelling corrections and the insertion of paragraph breaks.) EAST 52ND STREET NEW YORK 22, N.Y. [dated ca 1946?] Mr. Allen W. Dulles 48 Wall Street New York City.
Dear Allen :- The other day we discussed the question what kind of the species “human being” Carl Langbehn actually was. I told you that my old friend Professor F. Pringsheim , eminent man of law at the University of Göttingen, now at Oxford England, – by the way he received a call from the University of Freiburg i.Br. which he is considering, – knew Langbehn.
When I wrote him that Langbehn’s widow wanted to get out of Germany with her children and go to her father who is a “Foreign-German” [ Auslandsdeutsche ] living in Argentina, 80 years old, – Pringsheim volunteered a statement on Langbehn which I believe is rather illuminating . I enclose a copy which may help you to form an opinion on the personality. I am looking forward to our luncheon, intended for next week, very much.
Sincerely Paul Kempner [Handwritten:] The advantage of reports of this kind obviously is to give you more of the personal backgrounds and touches of this “conspirator” world; thereby lifting the level of your book into the more refined spheres. Tat is why &endash; without knowing the book, – I ventured to recommend that you send Wolfgang over once more to get some more subtle knowledge together.
I can give many hints as to who knew whom intimately, but I did not myself know these men well enough so as to supply what otherwise would be my greatest pleasure to supply. P A K Heinrich Himmler dossier Pringsheim statement on Langbehn Gaevenitz to Allen Dulles, Jul 12, 1946 2005