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Fritz Kuhn Gets 10-Year SentenceV-MUNICH,- Germany, April 20— GFi—Frltz Kuhn’ missing v forme? loader- of the German-American Bund, was conviclcd In absentia today bv a Bavarian dc-Nazifica-tlon: court as a major Nazi offender. . ,The' 51-ycar-Dld German was sentenced to servo 10 years in a labor camp if he is ever found.* He' escaped from un internment camp at Dachau last Feb. 4.. The German court Tcachcd its verdict- after a five-hour trial made conspicuous by the nbsence of; not only Kuhn hut also of his lawyer and witnesses.The trial was carried out entirely. hy the presentation of documents which purported to show that Kuhn hnd close ties with Hitler's third German Reich and that hc^ad tried to transplant its ideology ’ into'the United States.' For Ida activities in llio United States. Kuhn got Into, trouble and was convicted of embezzling* the funds of his own Bund.’ Then he was deported to his native Munich, and his American citizenship whs cancelled.
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Las Cruces Sun News
Las Cruces, New Mexico, US
Tue, Apr 20, 1948
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