Word: kuhne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settled in a strange, silly, democratic land, what could Fritz Kuhn do to show his devotion? With great energy and great devotion but not with great success, he did what he could: he collected $2,300 for Reich relief, had a Golden Book signed by 6,000 loyal U. S. Nazis, and carried the book to Hitler. Mein Führer received the gifts and-what was more-let Fritz Kuhn be photographed with...
Back to the U. S. with greater devotion than ever hurried Fritz Kuhn. Nobody knew better than he what a tough job he was in for. Those Jews were everywhere. Recruits came, but there was no stampede to jump on the Bundwagon. And everywhere the Gottverdammt Jews made trouble: Fritz was arrested for traffic violations, for drunkenness; attacks in the courts, in the press, in the seat of the pants...
...more trouble: the Jews and the C. I. O. and the Communists held a meeting; he thought he heard a shot fired. Shaken but triumphant after his speech, he decided: "They driving me crazy-you know, I think this Jews are beginning to be afraid of me." But Fritz Kuhn was human: not only did he get angry, want some philosophy that made sense of his troubles-Fritz Kuhn also wanted sympathy, and not just from the Führer. And not just from quiet, patient Mrs. Kuhn...
Last week in a Manhattan courtroom, Fritz Kuhn's troubles came to a climax. Day after day his dreary trial had unfolded. For two weeks the jury had listened to the story of how the U. S. looked to a man who loved his Führer and thought the Jews were everywhere. They had heard how Fritz Kuhn had been arrested, not for his beliefs, but on a charge of forgery and theft from his own Bund. They heard young Herman McCarthy, Tom Dewey's assistant, build up a long, involved case about Fritz Kuhn taking...
...defense scored heavily; the prosecution's auditor admitted an error in calculations of the alleged thefts; all but five charges against Fritz Kuhn were dismissed. The jury heard Bund members testify that under the "leader principle" Kuhn could spend the money any way he liked-but not on a woman, said one Bundster, either vacillating or jealous. They heard Tom Dewey, summoned as a defense witness by Kuhn's lawyers, who hoped to show that malicious prejudice brought about their client's indictment. Said Dewey, asked if he hated the Bund: "It is really very difficult...