Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes; very strongly anti-Communist——exceedingly strongly anti-Communist, almost fanatically so. Naturally, he had the sentence against him. And then he spent the rest of his life in Germany and was killed at the end of the war in an air raid, as far as we know—some air raid hit that place where he lived.
Mr. Jenner. Do you know what town it was?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. No; I don't know the town, but it is an old castle in Oldenburg. It is near the Danish border. My brother is going to go right now there to visit his tomb, because neither of us had the time to go and see that place. But he is in Europe now, and he will go and see the place where he was buried.
Eventually, we received some of his papers and documents and letters through some German friends who stayed there with him.
Mr. Jenner. Now, I take it he was—we can at least fairly say that he had sympathies, or was sympathetic with the German cause?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. No; I remember we exchanged letters with him during the war through some friends in Argentina and in Japan, before Japan got into the war. My father wrote me a letter in which he said, "George, the Nazis are no good, and Germany is going to lose the war, but I prefer to be in Germany than in Soviet Russia. At least I am free and nobody is bothering me."
It was the policy of the Germans to protect the people who had some positions in Czarist Russia. But he never became pro-Nazi. He was too clear thinking for that. He liked the Germans all right, but he was not pro-Nazi. But he hated Communism. That was his life's hatred.
Mr. Jenner. Now, we have you back in New York City—this is when we went to lunch—around 1953—1952, 1953.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. Your partnership with Mr. Hooker had terminated.