Word: bund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fritz Kuhn was one German that Americans knew well. They remembered pictures of him as the strutting führer of the German-American Bund, of his Madison Square Garden meetings, where the Stars & Stripes and the swastika were bracketed, of his arrest and deportation. One day last week Fritz made news again, but there was nobody around for pictures. He escaped from the Dachau internment camp where he had been awaiting a denazification trial. At week's end, police were still looking...
...Into Night. Zaslavsky was not always a Lenin idolator. In the year (1900) when Lenin founded his first illegal news paper, Zaslavsky, too, had become a revolutionary. But he chose to join the Jewish General Social-Democratic Union - known as the Jewish Bund. Though both re mained revolutionaries, from 1903 onward he opposed Lenin's methods. In 1917, thirteen days after Lenin's seizure of power, Zaslavsky's opposition twanged toward its angriest pitch : "Lenin has taken power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days...
...months later, a German Advisory Council which the U.S. hopes will take over as a provisional government. But disagreement remained on everything else, including the composition of the council. The Russians wanted it to include the Organization of Free German Women, the Farmers' Aid Society, and the Culture Bund-all Communist fronts. Replied Ernie Bevin: "We should consult well-known groups, rather than these others. As a very old propagandist of the Socialist Party, I know a lot about . . . why they exist...
...Munich, ex-German-American Bund-leader Fritz Kuhn was given a clean bill of health by denazification authorities, who pointed out that he had not lived in Germany during the Nazi regime...
...repeated a lie by ... John Roy Carlson that this writer was a member of the "Bund" and a Klansman, both of these statements are false and I will submit an affidavit under oath that I never made application for membership into the German-American Bund at any time, never paid dues therein, never carried a membership card, never attended even one of its membership meetings...