Biographie

15 mai 1896 · Munich, Bavière, Allemagne

14 décembre 1951 · Munich, Bavaria, West Germany [now Germany]

Fritz Julius Kuhn

1,83 m

Leader of German-American Bund (Federation), a group which, prior to its dissolution following Pearl Harbor, was directly connected to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis; was said to have embezzled Bund money to fund drinking sprees and extramarital affairs.

"Inside Nazi Germany," the January 1938 March of Time newsreel, has been labeled "the first commercially released anti-Nazi American motion picture." Although the newsreel begins with film shot in Nazi Germany, the footage was bland and disappointing, so the newsreel was spiced up with staged re- enactments using anti-Nazi German-Americans. Kuhn was inveigled to stage some scenes in his German-American Bund office. When he discovered he had been tricked, Walter Winchell reported that he was recorded screaming "I will be ruint. Ruint!" at a screening in the March of Time building.

George Washington was the first fascist.