![]() Liesl and Agent Thirteen are engaging characters. The impact of the Great Depression on Hollywood and WWI veterans with no jobs is well done, and Hitler’s influence rings true. Honest law enforcement people don’t yet believe the threat. ![]() The local police, the FBI, studio staff all have Nazi loyalists. Liesl and Agent Thirteen work together, but few others can be trusted. Lewis hires other spies, notably shadowy Agent Thirteen, a former private investigator and Pinkerton detective. There she learns of plans to oust American Jews, kill Jewish Hollywood producers, and install Nazi loyalists to take over Hollywood movie productions. Liesl volunteers as the all-around staffer at a local German office, where she fits right in-tall, blonde, able to speak and write fluent German. He sees the Nazi infiltration into Southern California and tries to thwart it. Liesl’s widowed German mother runs the house and watches Liesl’s children.ĭesperate to find work, Liesl hires on as a spy for powerful real-life lawyer Leon Lewis. Liesl’s brother, a newly hired cop, has joined a pro-Nazi group. Liesl’s Jewish friends and neighbors are mistreated by local shops and at school. Hitler is on the rise, and his influence has reached California. ![]() Liesl’s husband and the father of their two small children recently walked out, leaving behind a goodbye note and a week’s pay. All studios are laying off, and MGM lets her go. In summer 1933, beautiful and talented Liesl Weiss works for MGM as a typist and stenographer. ![]()
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