He was politically apathetic, caring only for his art and his wife Helga, who was also the starring actress in all of his plays.Īs World War II loomed, Campbell met a man called Frank Wirtanen who claimed to be from the United States Department of War, and was recruited to spy for the U.S., transmitting Nazi propaganda containing hidden messages that could only be decoded by Allied intelligence.Ĭampbell began to make his way up through Joseph Goebbels' propaganda organization, eventually becoming the "voice" of broadcasts aimed at converting Americans to the Nazi cause. Being of sufficiently Aryan parentage, Campbell became a member of the Nazi Party in name only. was an American who moved with his family to Germany after World War I and went on to become a successful German language playwright.
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