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Usually, we cover breaking news here on WLT Report, but a recent investigative report by the San Francisco Gate is too interesting not to share.
As some of you may already know after WWII a plethora of top Nazi officials escaped Germany knowing their fate in the Nuremberg Trials would likely result in death.
However, some didn’t need to escape but rather the United States governmnet recruited top Nazi officers who were skilled in engineering, science and medical practices.
Most of the Nazi officers recruited due to their skills especially in rocket science were recruited in a covert operation called Operation Paperclip.
#OtD 3 Sep 1945 US president Harry Truman officially approved and expanded Operation Paperclip, a secret plan to bring over 1,500 Nazi scientists and war criminals to US. There they worked on the space program as well as biological and chemical weapons. pic.twitter.com/JoBV86wQ9b
— Working Class History (@wrkclasshistory) September 3, 2021
The San Fransico Gate has now resurfaced a report of a former top Nazi intergorator who was hired as an artist to help design Disney Theme Parks just a few shorts years after working under the Nazi regime.
Read the full report by the SF Gate below:
When Disney World opened in 1971, the Orlando Sentinel wrote a glowing story about one of the artists whose work adorned the Magic Kingdom. Within the magnificent new castle was an intricate mosaic mural, one of the most striking pieces of art in the park. Hundreds of thousands of tiny Italian glass pieces, some embellished with 14-carat gold, create a sweeping portrayal of the story of Cinderella.
The mural was created by one of the world’s foremost mosaic artists, a German immigrant named Hanns-Joachim Scharff. Scharff had been living in the United States since he “fled to this country from East Germany in 1948 to escape the Communists,” the Sentinel wrote. What the publication failed to mention — and perhaps didn’t even realize — was what Scharff was doing three years before his “escape”: serving as perhaps the most effective interrogator in Nazi Germany.
Scharff is one of the most fascinating figures in World War II history, a man working for the Nazis who was admired by nearly every American prisoner of war he came into contact with. Today, his interrogation techniques are still studied by intelligence officers, and as recently as the Barack Obama administration, the U.S. government was funding research into Scharff’s remarkable success with extracting vital information from POWs.
Scharff was born to a well-to-do German family and studied art history at Leipzig University before moving to South Africa for work. There, he met and married his first wife, a British South African woman. Scharff was fluent in English, speaking with a distinctly upper-crust accent that hundreds of American POWs would later recall as one of his trademarks.
In 1939, the Scharffs took an ill-timed holiday in Germany. When war broke out, Scharff was drafted into the military. He was initially supposed to be sent to the Eastern Front, but his outraged wife demanded an audience with Nazi officers, arguing Scharff’s fluency in English should be utilized. He was then assigned to the Luftwaffe, where he served as an interpreter listening in on Allied communications.
Scharff quickly showed his aptitude for more than simple translations — he was brilliant at deciphering intel from the messages. His perceptiveness landed him a new job: interrogating American soldiers who were shot down over enemy territory. Over the course of the war, Scharff was the interrogator for hundreds of American Air Force officers, pilots and more. And he did it all without threats or torture.
German intelligence officers had learned from their spies that small-town American newspapers were a treasure trove of information, giving them insights into soldiers’ families, high schools, enlistment details and more. Although POWs were instructed to only ever divulge their names, ranks and serial numbers, Scharff often knew more than that before they even met him. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of their lives, keeping files on high-profile officers and pilots, with information gleaned from newspapers, tidbits from other captured soldiers and photographs. He even kept a photo of one famed pilot in his office for months before the man crashed behind enemy lines and ended up in Scharff’s office.
DISNEY’S NAZIShttps://t.co/KntOYfdGUA pic.twitter.com/KovSAtuPuM
— The Sacred Blue Tent (@SabrinaGal182) May 31, 2025
House of History produced a well-researched video on Scharff’s interrogation techniques.
Watch here:
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