Grinning broadly, Henry Hauch rides away in a
police car after arrest at Yaphank, L.I. “This,” says the
heavy-set
man who has described himself as camp manager," is a scheme by the
Jews to get revenge.”
IN THE FILES OF THE Federal Bureau of
Investigation in Washington there are twelve volumes, of
encyclopedia size, on the extent, activities and objectives of the
German-American Bund in the United States.
J. Edgar Hoover,
chief of the FBI, does not concern himself with investigation of
insignificant groups.
The twelve volumes
contain a careful, documented history of the bund from the time Nazi
agents fro Germany first planted the seeds of Hitlerism in this
country to present when the 65 locals of the bund stretch from New
York to Los Angeles and the organization boasts of 200,000 “Storm
Troopers.”
HAS 28 CAMPS.
It boasts of 28 camps
throughout the United States.
It boasts of four
newspapers, strategically placed in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
and Los Angeles, for the dissemination of anti-Semitic,
anti-Communist, and anti-democratic propaganda.
It boasts of four
projected newspapers in Boston, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and
Seattle.
Nazi agents,
according to government information, were sounding out the loyalties
of German-American groups in this country even before Hitler became
Germany’s Chancellor.
They planted the seed
which ultimately became the German-American Bund, otherwise known as
Amerika-deutscher Volkbund.
It is necessary now
to narrow this picture to one man Fritz Kuhn. A German by birth,
Kuhn came to the Untied States in 1927. He has worked as a chemist
for the I-B Farmben Works, a German dye manufacturer. In this
country he became a chemical engineer in Detroit.
He took out
citizenship papers and was admitted as an American citizen in 1932.
Last year he was elected national bund leader for a second term of
four years.
Under Kuhn, the
organization really began to go to town.