NAZI MOVEMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1939, Page 8

NAZI MOVEMENT

AMERICAN INVESTIGATION EVIDENCE OF GIRL WITNESS ALLEGED IMMORALITY. KUHN THREATENS MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 18. Fritz Kuhn, leader of tne GermanAmerican Bund, finished his testimony and then told the. Press that Mr Dios (chairman) and other members of the committee had as good as destroyed their political careers by attacking the Bund. The committee thereupon called to the witness stand the scventcen-years-old Helen Voores, a member of the Bund's Youth Movement, who recited in full detail the alleged immorality existing at various camps and aboard vessels on route to Germany, when the Youth Movement visited Herr Hitler. Witness then explained the general purpose of the movement in the United States, saying, “The Bund was to open eamps, buy property and form German settlements. Then, when Germany offers to aid us, we can say that hero we have a German majority and we want to be part of Germany .... The Bund leaders always found fault with the United States Government. They said it was controlled by a minority, namely Jews, and was not taking care of other races." Helen Voores further testified that Youth Movement leaders preached that a girl should not be ashamed of having an illegitimate child if its father is German and said that "Roosevelt had a streak of Jewish blood in him.”

, While in Germany the Bund youths were given a demonstration by a physician on charts of how sterilisation was performed, because, "the day might come in the United States when the information would be useful?’