Hans Thomsen

Hans Thomsen was the German ambassador to the United States from 1938 to 1941, when the U.S. entered World War II. He became the ambassador again when the U.S. and Germany re-established ties after the Race's Conquest Fleet invaded Earth in 1942.

Thomsen, along with other diplomats and officials representing the various Axis countries, had been interred by the United States government in December, 1941 at the Greenbriar Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. He had been sent back to Germany via submarine in an exchange for U.S. diplomats. However, with the arrival of the Race's fleet, the warring countries of Earth united in common cause. Thomsen returned to the U.S. on a small tugboat. Ironically, he was again housed at the Greenbriar Hotel, under more hospitable circumstances than his last visit.

University of Chicago physicist Jens Larssen was placed in the hotel on his trip to secure government protection for the Univeristy's Metallurgical Lab. Thomsen's room was across the hall from his.

Thomsen traded politely phrased but nonetheless sharp barbs with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov in the dining area. After being politely reminded by Molotov of Germany's unprovoked aggression against the Soviet Union, Thomsen just as politely reminded Molotov of the Soviet Union's unprovoked aggression against Finland. To the relief of all present, the discussion did not escalate.