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Werner von Clemm
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Werner Conrad Clemm von Hohenberg (September 27, 1897 – April 14, 1989) was an American banker born into a German family that married into German nobility, the Nazi Party and prominent American families. His father-in-law was a Vice President of Citibank. In 1922, Werner immigrated to the United States. Prior to this he had served in the German army during World War I. He was a representative of the German international banking firm Hardy & Co. and an employee of the Pioneer Import Corp., which imported materials from Germany and handled his cousin and Nazi diplomat, Joachim von Ribbentrop's champagne business.
Along with his twin brother, Karl von Clemm, Werner had become friends with U.S. businessman, William Rhodes Davis. In the United States, Werner became Vice President of Davis' company, Davis & Co., which shipped large quantities of oil to Germany and became a propaganda strategist and financial aide of the America First Committee, which encouraged American isolationism. Werner lived on a 200-year-old Dutch colonial home on a 130-acre estate at Syosset, New York.
In 1940, the Nazis seized large quantities of diamonds from Belgium and the Netherlands, which Werner was smuggling to the United States. The U.S. was neutral and did not declare war until December 1941. To avoid detection, Werner moved the diamonds through various European cities, shipped them to South America and they eventually found their way to New York City. Buyers in New York would make payment to a Berlin bank called Imico-Handel, which then turned the money over to the German government.
Between October 26, 1940 and early February, 1941, six packages of diamonds were sent by this route, according to plan. Evidence was introduced that a New York diamond purchaser received a letter from a former Belgian supplier offering diamonds, and accompanying the letter was a note instructing the buyer to make payment for credit of Imico at the Berlin bank, and to address communications to [an alias of] one of the Imico organizers in Lisbon.
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