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Former "Fuehrer" Of Nazi Bund In America
FALSELY NATURALISED
British Official Wireless Rec. 2 p.m. RUGBY, May 18. Fritz Kuhn, once "Fuehrer" of the German American Bund, the Nazi organisation in the United States, which was 200,000 strong, is being sent back to Germany as an undesirable alien by the United States Department of Justice, says _an agency message. He is to be put into the hands of the United States iTiihtary authorities to deal with as they think fit.
Aged 49 and six feet tall, Kuhn was born in Germany and in 1927 went to the United States, where he was falsely naturalised. In December, 1939, he was sent to Sing Sing prison for larceny and forgery and in 1943 was transferred to an internment camp. Kuhn's brother was a judge in Nazi Germany.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 117, 19 May 1945, Page 5
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