Egon Glesinger

Nazis in the Woodpile Egon Glesinger

"It was in February 1942 that I met Egon Glesinger and learned at first hand something about the fight he had been making to prevent the Germans from extending their control over forest industries in Europe and the world. His story is as full of thrills and intrigue as an old-time international spy tale.

He rips the green forester's uniform off Hermann Goering, jolly master of the hunt, and shows him to be a thieving, greedy plotter, who for years has been trying to steal the contents of every peasant's woodshed in Europe.

This little book shows how the Nazis have used recent discoveries in the chemistry of wood to speed their plans for putting Germany on a war basis. The importance of wood as a source of edible sugars and chemically treated pulp for feeding stock is less well known to the American public than German success in using wistra and wollstra as a substitute for cotton and wool."

-from the Preface by Douglas Miller