This episode must have been near and dear to narrator Walter Winchell's heart. During the Thirties columnist Winchell was one of the very first to report on the activities of the German American Bund and had Eliot Ness really been involved with dealing with subversives he would have been as lauded by Winchell as J. Edgar Hoover was.
This story involves The Untouchables in New York investigating Jack Warden a narcotics peddler of German descent who made his headquarters in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. His investigation shows that he's getting his supplies directly from the Nazis in Europe to fund their American propaganda efforts.
The contact man is Francis Lederer who has much bigger game in mind than getting rich off junkies. He wants Warden to help him organize the German American community and start a protection racket therein. Of course in Nazi fashion the initial targets will be Jews. For said effort, Warden lends Lederer his top enforcer young Richard Jaeckel. And the lovely young Erika Peters who is Lederer's 'niece' truly sweetens the deal for Jaeckel.
Back in the day Winchell used to refer to domestic Nazi sympathizers as 'Hitler rooters'. This episode proves that there's nothing the Hilter rooters wouldn't stoop to in order to gain their objective.
This story involves The Untouchables in New York investigating Jack Warden a narcotics peddler of German descent who made his headquarters in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. His investigation shows that he's getting his supplies directly from the Nazis in Europe to fund their American propaganda efforts.
The contact man is Francis Lederer who has much bigger game in mind than getting rich off junkies. He wants Warden to help him organize the German American community and start a protection racket therein. Of course in Nazi fashion the initial targets will be Jews. For said effort, Warden lends Lederer his top enforcer young Richard Jaeckel. And the lovely young Erika Peters who is Lederer's 'niece' truly sweetens the deal for Jaeckel.
Back in the day Winchell used to refer to domestic Nazi sympathizers as 'Hitler rooters'. This episode proves that there's nothing the Hilter rooters wouldn't stoop to in order to gain their objective.