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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Site - The Real Story!if (document.images) {bnext_up = new Image(); bnext_up.src = "next_up.jpg";bnext_ov = new Image(); bnext_ov.src = "next_ov.jpg";bnext_dn = new Image(); bnext_dn.src = "next_dn.jpg"; } Welcome to the LindyTruth Website - otherwise known as “The Crime (and Trial) of the Century.”*[You will need a Java capable browser to view this applet] This Site presents information and documents (even a CD-ROM) about the famous Lindbergh Kidnapping of March 1, 1932 and the subsequent Trial of Jan 2 - Feb 13, 1935.The issues raised then are still hotly debated today because of the timeless nature of the crime and the all-too-human participants. The ingredients include: kidnapping, murder, aviation, fame, money, prejudice, infidelity, politics, capital punishment, judicial ethics, forensic science, pre-trial publicity, spiritualism, eugenics, etc. You get the idea - a Rorschach test for every generation!Since Bruno Richard Hauptmann never confessed or implicated others before he was executed on April 3, 1936 (despite possible commutation), many theories have been suggested to identify the “actual” kidnapper/killer - Anne Morrow (who died in 2001 at 94), Lindbergh himself, Isidor Fisch, Elisabeth Morrow, Jacob Nosovitsky, Paul Wendel, Gaston Means, Al Capone, the Russian OGPU, the German Luft Hansa, and in a recent development, even the terrier Wahgoosh (whose name meant "fox" in Chippewa). Most people today are familiar with the kidnapping of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh jr from the 1996 HBO-cable film starring Steven Rea and Isabella Rossellini. This 2-hour movie, directed by Mark Rydell, was very sympathetic to Bruno Richard Hauptmann, employing (count them) 7 child actors to play his own son Manfred, but not one for the Lindbergh child, who was conspicuous by his absence. Neither this film, nor the 1976 NBC-TV Special with Anthony Hopkins, can be considered an historical treatment of the case.We will continue to add pictures, documents and sounds - just click the blue lines below (or images) to see and hear the materials that support the FAQs. To see our latest research (and Archives) on the case, please also visit and join our Lindy Kidnap Discussion Group or email your questions to the Webmaster. Forty FAQs are presented here:1. Wasn't Hauptmann the victim of anti-German sentiment in 1934-36 and didn't this play a role in his conviction? And what about Charles Lindbergh sitting every day at the Prosecution table during the Trial? Ans: A large number of State's counsel, Law Enforcement personnel, and jurors were of German extraction themselves. The case became an embarrassment for Germany, and three books that appeared there accept Hauptmann's guilt. They were: Rolf Nurnberg, “Lindbergh, Hauptmann und Amerika,” Leipzig & Vienna, 1936; Heinz Liepman, “Verbrechen im Zwielicht,” Berlin, 1959; “Kidnapping: Der Fall Lindbergh,” ed. Maximilian Jacta, Munich, 1964. Brief defensive comments were made by the Nazi Party in the Berlin Beobachter (Observer) and some criticism of legal procedure from Hans Schneickert, but the worst were published in Der Stürmer by propagandist Julius Streicher, enlarging upon the notorious American Bulletin. When Hauptmann was asked by Dr Frederick Kirsch, a visitor from Germany, about the conduct of his trial, he replied in The NY Times, Feb 6, 1935: “I have no complaint,” and expressed satisfaction with his lawyers. Some books (e.g. Ahlgren & Monier) and websites claim that Lindbergh improperly influenced the jurors by sitting at the Prosecution table every day, but these sources simply repeat later erroneous comments by Gov. Hoffman and Lloyd Fisher - after jury selection was completed, he usually sat in a row of added seats - generally next to Col. Schwarzkopf in front of the Bar - Anna Hauptmann attended regularly and sometimes sat near her husband. Most of the known Courtroom photos date from the morning of Jan 7, 1935 (before testimony), and show Reilly at the Prosecution table and Wilentz hobnobbing with the Defense. Lindbergh was not in Court the day of the verdict (Feb 13). The famous photo in Waller's Kidnap showing Lindbergh "at the [1935] Trial" table actually dates from the 1932 Curtis Hoax Trial (June 30).2. Why was Hauptmann's background in Kamenz, Germany (where he was born in 1899) used against him in court? Didn't his wife Anna say that he “only stole a loaf of bread”?Ans: That's what Anna said, but Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty in two separate trials, on June 3 and 17, and was sent to Bautzen Prison in Saxony on July 9, 1919 for “5 years and one week” with loss of Civil Rights - his (known) crimes there included armed robbery, burglary, larceny, and possession (and sale) of stolen property. One involved the use of a ladder to steal valuables from the second-story home of Burgermeister (Mayor) Schierach of Bernbruch (Cases 1A95-19 & A-1309-25). Eventually paroled by Judge Berndt on March 30, 1923 (with his mother's help), he nonetheless returned to criminal activity, and was arrested again on June 12th. Anti-social behavior in Germany was no guarantee of Hauptmann's future conduct as he was barely 20 years old, but when he testified in his own defense at the Lindbergh Trial, his previous record could be used against him.3. But weren't times tough in Germany in 1919-1923? Why should this be held against him?Ans: The German population went through some wrenching economic changes after WWI, but Bruno's inability to hold a job (despite training as a carpenter before the war) was due to his own attitude about working regularly. His (abusive?) father, Hermann, died when he was 17, and he lost two older brothers during the hostilities, in which he served as a machine-gunner. Pauline Hauptmann owned their own house, and she didn't starve. As BRH's finances later improved in the US, he would send her $50 a year (until his 1934 arrest).4. So how did BRH get to the U.S. anyway?Ans: After he escaped from the police station exercise yard on June 20, 1923, he decided to leave Germany since his new crimes meant that he had broken his three-year parole and would have to return to prison. He finally succeeded in November of that year (as a stowaway), after two previous attempts (his first provoked an Ellis Island Deportation Hearing on July 14 under his alias of Karl Pellmeier). He was never consistent about these three voyages, later listing five ships: the Yorck, Derflinger, George Washington, Portia, and Hannover,. Landing in Hoboken, NJ and taking the ferry to NYC, he never applied for US citizenship, but with an introduction from Lena Aldinger, met and married Anna Schoeffler while she was working at the Rosenbaum household on West 79th Street. The ceremony took place in “Brooklyn” on Oct. 10, 1925 (she had entered legally Jan. 1, 1924, on the S.S. Mongolia, at the age of 25); ironically, she would die on her wedding day -- 69 years later, still loyally proclaiming his innocence.  Free counter |
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