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Gary Kern wrote:
> 
> Dear Jüngerites:
> 
> Would anyone on the list be able to answer this question about Kaiser
> Wilhelm II?  I am researching a Soviet plot to overthrow Hitler early in
> 1937. The Kaiser was approached in Doorn, Holland, where he lived in
> exile, and someone on his staff named Hermine liked the idea. So it was
> taken to Stalin, who didn't like it.  He pointed to a map and said that
> London was closer to Berlin than Moscow, and if the British didn't try
> then they must have had reasons.  The plan was dropped.
> 
> My question is, who was Hermine?  The Kaiser's son, his secretary, his
> guard?  My only reference is an unpublished scrap in Russian.
> 
> GK
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Correction:

Stalin said that London was closer to Doorn.  The plot involved Nazi
soldiers partial to the Kaiser.

My main question remains:  Who was Hermine?

GK


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