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; J4UNTCH,- Germany, Feb. r 4 . UP) -^The Bavarian de-Nazificatlon ministry announced, that .Fritz Kuhn,: toner leader of - the'German-American Bimd in the United StateA, escaped from a German internment . atari p at Dachau this jrtorriing. - . V.f-. :v*-”’• ‘Kuhn wu'jiijid in July-for possible trial at'a'Nazi offender. He liirfbeen neid irince without trial. ;;kuhn,'Who had become a United States; citizen • by naturalization, war. deprivedbf hla citizenship in;1948 and deported to Germany in:l$4‘iVlrat reports from the Gernfan-operated internee camp said Kyhri eicaped from, friianu as., he was b€« ingV taken/from' hJs ccll.j Uncbn-firmed'reports Said, he was to He Uahsftrred to Nuernberg a a possible wltneai.ln American war crJm«»' triala there. V.. 'Kuhn had lingered in Uachau albce. last July 24 when de-Nazi-flcatlon authorities seized him. for poaslble,. trial under the German denazification law. /.{At that time Munich public prosecutor Julius Heme Bald-the 50-year ^1 it .ex r feu nd leader would be charged An ^accb'unt of hla extra, ordinary support of the Nael regime .by propAlaridist ;mcana.• kiilyi. waa freed • by American authorities in Aaperg, Germany on April 25, 1048, after six and.a half years as a prisoner of the. U.S.
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Las Cruces Sun News

Las Cruces, New Mexico, US

Wed, Feb 04, 1948

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