Fritz Wiedemann, once considered Adolf Hitler's right-hand man, lived in the Nazi Consulate in San Francisco, prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. San Francisco Chronicle archives.

Fritz Wiedemann, 47, a heavy-featured 6-footer with jet-black hair, spoke accented, albeit, fluent English. Acquaintances in 1939, when he began house hunting in Hillsborough, noted his engaging ...

The Nazi who ran the operation, Captain Fritz Wiedemann, was a stylish former German soldier who once acted as Hitler's personal assistant.

Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler’s company commander in World War I, German consul general in San Francisco for two stormy years and spy extraordinary for the Third Reich, was back in the U.S ...

Adolf Hitler's Man Friday, big, burly, 47-year-old Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who has carried out many a delicate mission in Europe as the Fiihrer's personal adjutant, was last week assigned ...

Fritz Wiedemann, pictured, was a fervent supporter of Hitler in the early years but grew disillusioned with Nazism as time went on and urged British intelligence to 'strike him'.

Winnetou, another high-profile German production commissioned by RTL, which aired over the holiday period, was an expensive flop.The three-part limited series, an adaptation of Karl May’s ...

As Fritz Wiedemann, now vice president of the Reich Film Chamber, boasted, “There is no such thing as public taste; we can shape that as we will. We have determined political taste; ...

And Wiedemann, who became a top aide to Hitler from 1934 to 1939 before becoming Germany’s consul in San Francisco through 1941, helped connect Hess to Hans Heinrich Lammers, the head of the ...

San Francisco Chronicle archives January 30, 1950: House at Jackson and Laguna Streets, in San Francisco's Pacific Heights, was once home to the Nazi Consulate. The furnishings at that time were ...