Joachim Joesten

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Joachim Joesten (born June 29, 1907 in Cologne ; † August 1975 ) was a German-American journalist and bestselling author.

Life

Joesten was the son of the writer Joseph Joesten from his marriage to Amalie Freiin von Nesselrode-Hugenpoet. He studied at the universities of Cologne, Berlin, Breslau, Munich, Nancy and Madrid and worked as a journalist, mainly for the world stage of Carl von Ossietzky . In 1928 he settled in Berlin and opened a lending library specializing in Marxist literature. On May 12, 1932, he joined the KPD .

In 1937 he emigrated to France and later to Copenhagen . In 1940, after the Wehrmacht invaded Denmark , he fled to Sweden , where he was interned for five months. In September 1940 he married the Swede May Nilsson and then traveled with her from Stockholm to Moscow and from there on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok . Both finally reached New York in March 1941 via Japan and Costa Rica . Joesten initially worked there for two years at Newsweek magazine .

He received US citizenship in 1948 and had a permanent residence in New York in the following years, but traveled a lot to collect material for his books. In 1967/68 he also had an address in Munich (Dreschstrasse 5) and in November / December 1974 in Böbing in Upper Bavaria (house 161). Some of his books were self-published under these addresses.

Where Joesten last lived and the exact date of his death are not yet known.

Fonts

Joesten was the first - in July 1964 - to publish a book in the USA about the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy , in which, contrary to the Warren Commission report, he assumed other perpetrators besides Lee Harvey Oswald . Joesten claimed that Oswald was an FBI and CIA agent . He interviewed witnesses to the attack in Dallas .

In addition, he traced the post-war activities of former Nazis, including those of Werner Naumann and Herbert Lucht . He also denounced the terrorist organization La Main Rouge operated by the French secret service . Other books also deal critically with the politics of the time and its leading representatives.

In total, he published almost 30 non-fiction books, several of which were translated into other languages. He has also published hundreds of newspaper articles, including for Die Weltbühne , Die Weltwoche , Die Zeit , Gazet van Antwerpen , Newsweek , The Nation , Foreign Affairs , Virginia Quarterly Review , Barons's Wirtschaftszeitung (New York), Weekend (Montreal) and United Feature Syndicate ( New York).

Books (selection)

  • Rats in the Larder: The Story of Nazi Influence in Denmark , New York: Putnam, 1939
  • Denmark's Day of Doom , London: Gollancz 1939
  • What Russia Wants , New York: World Book Company, 1944
  • Germany - what now? , Chicago: Ziff-Davis 1948
  • Dr. Naumann's conspiracy, pattern of the world-wide crypto-nazi plot , New York 1953
  • AS Onassis . Mr on all seas , Zurich: Swiss printing and publishing house, 1956
  • Oil rules the world , Düsseldorf: Rauch, 1958
  • C (entral) I (ntelligence) A (gency) . How the American secret service works , Munich: Isar-Verlag, 1958
  • Nasser : The Rise of Power , London: Odhams Press, 1960
  • The Luciano Story , New York: Popular Library, 1960
  • President Kennedy , Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1960
  • The Red Hand . The Sinister Account of the Terrorist Arm of the French Right-Wind "Ultras" - in Algeria and on the Continent , London, New York: Abelard-Schuman 1962
  • Oil powers in competition. The advance of the outsiders , Baden-Baden: Lutzeyer, 1963
  • In the service of distrust. The espionage and defense business , Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1964
  • Oswald : Assassin or Fall Guy? , London: Merlin Press, New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1964 - Winnipeg reprinted: IconoclassicBooks, 2012
  • De Gaulle and his Murderers : A Factual Account of a Dramatic Piece of Contemporary History , Isle of Man: Times Press, 1965
  • Marina Oswald , London: Dawnay, 1965
  • The truth about the Kennedy murder. How and why the Warren Report lies , introduction and epilogue by Bernd Ruland , Zurich: Schweizer Verlagshaus, 1966
  • Oswald: The Truth , London: Dawnay, 1967
  • The Garrison Inquiry: Truth & Consequences , London: Dawnay, 1967
  • How Kennedy Was Killed: The Full Appalling Story , London: Dawnay 1968
  • The Dark Side of Lyndon Baines Johnson , London: Dawnay 1968 - Winnipeg Reprinted: IconoclassicBooks, 2013
  • with Irene Schmitz born Kurek, President Nixon . His life, his politics, as an attempt to answer this fateful question for our future , Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 1969
  • Va banque. The great vertigo affairs of our time , Munich: Südwest Verlag 1970

literature

  • German-language exile literature since 1933 , Volume 4: Bibliographies. Writers, publicists and literary scholars in the USA , ed. by John M. Spalek , Konrad Feilchenfeldt and Sandra H. Hawrylchak, Part 2 (H – M), Munich 1994, pp. 786-790

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Kelin, Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report , San Antonio, Texas, 2013, p. 311 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ In Böbing, where Joesten can last be proven, he was not registered and did not die there. Communication from the responsible administrative association Rottenbuch , September 26, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Joesten, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 1975