The Evening Star (April 24, 1946)
Kuhn will be released in Germany tomorrow
FRANKFURT (AP) – Fritz Kuhn, fuehrer of the German American Volksbund. will be released by the United States Army from a German internment camp tomorrow morning.
Chastened by long confinement and troubled by a heart illness, Kuhn was declared to be “not a threat” to American occupation forces in Germany.
He was expected to proceed directly to Munich, where his wife and two children live in a bomb-damaged house.
A statement today by Gen. Joseph T. McNarney’s headquarters said Kuhn “is an unknown figure in Germany and his health and spirit are broken.”
In jail since 1939, Kuhn served more than three years in prison in the United States for embezzlement of bund funds. Immediately after completing his sentence, he was interned at Crystal City, Texas, and a year later lost his American citizenship.
He was deported in September 1945 to a ruined Germany, a country he had left in 1922.