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 My only reference is an unpublished scrap in Russian.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 ****************** 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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