Constantine Jenkins was a consular officer at the US Embassy in Berlin in the late 1930s. His tenure overlapped with the war that began in 1938 when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. Jenkins was the main point of contact at the embassy for Peggy Druce, an American citizen who had been stranded in Europe since the war began. Jenkins sympathized with Druce's impatience to escape the rule of the Nazis and return home to Philadelphia, but he cautioned her that travel across national borders in Europe was becoming extraordinarily difficult as a result of the war. He also informed her that the Nazis had grown suspicious of Druce, believing that she might be a spy, and that, despite the embassy's lobbying the German Foreign Ministry on her behalf, the Germans were disinclined to give her an exit vi