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bernard-julius-otto-kuehn — Part 04
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Tenderly she stroked two thick folders containing
clippihgs and hand-written notes by her husbsnd.
"While Otto was on Ellis Island awaiting deportation,
."He compiled .that materlal on his case while in
he tried to stay in tha United States. He failed. I ad.
Argentins. He wanted to write a book. He was too sick
vised him to g9 to Argentina ratber than return to
to get down to doing it, though.r :
.
.Germany because there are too many Americans around
Fading photos of her children were on a desk in the
spsrsely-furnished apsrtment. A stale kitchen smell
.him. They didn't want him to tell the true story"' Mrs.
mixed with cigarette smoke.
Kuehn sald.
"A Iot of.nonsense has been written about us Kuehns,
CRIES FREQUENTLY
don't believe it," 'she said.
She frequently cried while recounting her version of
She said all she wants now is to have the Kuehn
the Kuehn fsmily's fate. Within two hours, she aced
through a pack of cigarettes whilechain-smoking snd
against her husband.-
coughing.
"I don't want the money." she sald. "All I intend to
Pictures of herself and he; husband, a young hand-
do is to recover the money for my children."
some officer in the imperial German Navy. decorated
She refused to disclose the American addresses of
the walle of her small, two-room apartment in"a lower
her children because "they've suffered enough from
iddle class tenement..Paint was fiaking off the wails.
bad publicity," she said. "Leave them in peace.",.
This is the building where the widow of Otto Kuehn lives in Tirschenreuth.
Germony, neor the Czechoslavak borde.
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Kuehn Flashed Position of U.S. Fleet to Japan
Otto Kuehn not only sup | Office of War Information |F.B.I. agents tbat he was so | deniea her husband was ever.
plied Japan with informa.
disclosures made in 1943. -
high in the, Nazi Party thata spy, zs sbe seeks $27,000
tion about the fleet at Pearl
A light in a dormer win- he was once considered for compensation for aeizu re.
Harbor three days before the dow reportedly transmitted the position of chief of the and auctioning of their Ha-
Decembe 7, i94l, attack, the vital signals.
but he confessed to the F.B.L.
Kuehn, German, is abso rich Himmler.
Bulleitn tils a tbe war
that he did so, according to reported to have boasted to!
Today
Kuehn's widow
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