Berlin mission: the American who resisted Nazi Germany from within

Story of the US consul, Raymond Geist, who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come. In 1929 he went to Berlin as a consul, and handled visas for emigrants to the US. Geist expedited the exit of Albert Einstein just before Hitler came to power.. It was Geist who extricated Sigmund Freud from Vienna and Geist who understood the scale and urgency of the humanitarian crisis. Even while hiding his homosexual relationship with a German, Geist fearlessly challenged the Nazi police state whenever it abused Americans in Germany or threatened US interests. He made greater use of a restrictive US immigration quota and secured visas for hundreds of unaccompanied children. All the while, he maintained a working relationship with high Nazi officials such as Himmler, Heydrich, and Goring.