Word: kuhne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany. In 1934 a Congressional Committee investigated the Friends of New Germany, found it "for ail practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund in 1936, resumed functioning under the leadership of a sleek, pompous, garrulous ex-chemist named Fritz Kuhn whose offices in Manhattan are decorated by portraits of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler...
...Swastika brassards are drilled in German military tactics, sing German songs, listen to speeches in favor of Adolf Hitler. Dues of $9 a year partly go to buy camping sites, of which the Bund has 27 in as many cities. They also pay the salaries of Führer Kuhn and the district leaders whom he appoints. Major Bund centres are New York, Milwaukee and Los Angeles. Separate editions of the Deutscher Weckruf are printed in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. Unfortunately for its reputation as a legitimate wing of Naziism, the Bund did not suffer...
...first, Bund members are urged to patronize only stores run by Aryans who give members stamps entitling them to a discount relative to the amount they purchase. To achieve the second, Bundsmen have thus far done no more than make impassioned homesick speeches, parade with wooden guns. Sleek Mr. Kuhn, who looks and talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed to lead his organization through its latest crisis. He was in Brussels for an "antiCommunist" meeting with two other equally unsuccessful but considerably more authentic advocates of totalitarian government-Belgium's Léon Degrelle, France...
...plan was fostered by Dr. Charles L. Kuhn '28, director of the Museum, who is president of this new Massachusetts corporation, and it is patterned after the Children's Art Center on Rutland Street in Boston where work of this sort has been in progress for some time...
...Kuhn notes that as an institution already devoted to Germanic culture, and equipped with space for libraries, classrooms, offices, the Germanic Museum is ideally suited to house the proposed institute...