Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and America (2017) & Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von Romberg - Spreckels)
Art Design Publicity at ADC | 14 July 2023 | Updated 23 September 2023
For an overview and listing of articles related to Emily Hall - von Romberg - Spreckels - Tremaine before World War II, see section I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s on the Emily Hall Tremaine - Tremaine Collection: Compilations and documentation webpage.
Top left: After a year-long second marriage, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously) Spreckels sues for divorce (7 Sept 1940; New York Daily News. Top right: Three months later, Adolph B. Spreckels declares "I’m not the Nazi, SHE is" (10 December 1940, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Bottom right: Ellis M. Zacharias, head of SoCal area naval intelligence and main recipient of SoCal Nazi intelligence, who sent the information to J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC (left). Not known until January 2023, Emily’s family were close associates of Ellis Zacharias, both professionally and personally, and Emily may have been an occasional spy.
In Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and America, the German / US Nazi threat in Southern California and US Naval Intelligence is spotlighted. There are more interesting histories in this sphere.
Have you heard about the posh lady in Montecito with a swastika on her house?
Listen to a 28-minute book preview Nazis in California: Emily Hall Tremaine fights back (1933-45); was she pro-Nazi, a US patriot-spy, or both?
For more information, see Sections G. "Publications mentioning Emily Hall Tremaine" and I. "Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s" on the Emily Hall Tremaine / Tremaine Collection compilations and documentation overview page.