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Deported Fritz Kuhn, 52, prewar U.S. Bundesführer, had lost some weight, but still talked as big as ever. Appealing a ten-year rap as a major Nazi offender before a court in Munich, he bellowed that the Bund had been strictly "an American patriotic organization," had used the swastika only because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George...
Light on Kuhn. Next on Martin Dies's hospitable griddle was German-American Bundesführer Fritz Kuhn. Before the Committee last August, Fritz Kuhn did very well by himself, thanks largely to the feckless questions put to him by Martin Dies & colleagues. Last week witness Kuhn undid himself...
Meantime the U. S. adherents of Joseph Stalin's new partner temporarily lost their leader by arrest. German-American Bundesführer Fritz Kuhn, who has been out on $5,000 bail since he was charged with stealing $14,000 from his outfit (TIME, June 5), had to go to jail in Manhattan in default of $50,000 bail. His bail was upped, an assistant district attorney explained, when Prosecutor Tom Dewey heard that Mr. Kuhn was about to skip the country...
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