People: Just Deserts

Deported Fritz Kuhn, 52, prewar U.S. Bundesführer, had lost some weight, but still talked as big as ever. Appealing a ten-year rap as a major Nazi offender before a court in Munich, he bellowed that the Bund had been strictly "an American patriotic organization," had used the swastika only because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on...

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