Vision and Reality

Patrons of the Human Experience

“…Both born in the nineteenth century-Wenner-Gren in 1881, Fejos in 1897-the two men died within 18 months of each other (Wenner-Gren on November 24, 1961, Fejos on April 23, 1963) after a long, complicated, almost cinematic, relationship (see Luciak 2012). The two men had a relationship shaped by tensions common to recipient-donor relations.…”

“…He had the resources and interests to be influential in Mexico, Peru, and other places that were critical to sensitive US hemispheric priorities. Luciak (2016) exonerates Wenner-Gren entirely. We think Wenner-Gren was probably sympathetic to Germany (where he had spent some years) and almost certainly continued his financial relationships with German industry.…”

“…assumed the US presidency, sold Fidel Castro the Granma, the iconic boat of the Cuban revolution, and hid the Nazi gold treasure in South America" (Luciak 2012). Paul Fejos had a first career in Hollywood as a filmmaker-his The Last Moment (1928), about a suicide victim recalling his life, is still considered one of the great early experimental films.…”

“…There are other versions that involve a snake (see Luciak 2012). The various accounts do converge in one way.…”

“…The blacklisting has been generally taken as proof of his financial and political involvements, though the blacklisting alone (see below) is relatively uninformative. Luciak has repeated (in order to ridicule them) the claims that German U-boats were refueled at his estate on Nassau and that the reason his yacht could rescue so many survivors of a particular U-boat attack was because he knew that the attack was coming in advance (Luciak 2012).…”