James

A cover name in Alexander Vassiliev notebooks that was identified as “former German consul Schwartz.” “Consul Schwartz” could only be Dr. Paul Schwarz – a prominent German civil servant and diplomat, who served as the German Consul General in New York from 1928 to early 1933, when he was ousted by the Nazis.  He decided to remain in the United States, considering that there was no place for people like him in the Nazi Germany.  

“James” was likely misidentified by Vassiliev’s American co-authors, historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr as Dr. Schwarz’ namesake, Thomas Schwartz, who appeared in Vassiliev’s notes  as someone who “worked in the German office at the Worker’s center.”