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$27,0oo from the U.S. government She says, this is t8e OAug iuprp Ager ono 'nouow tong ooh pey o ang.. money the U.s. Government got from auctloning to work,"Mra. Kuehp.said. Kuehn's propertyin.1045. The entire Kuehn family was taken by surprise when uf phes gqs .num Ioagu gnqn ads t se puuqsny AW. the Jspanese attacked Pearl Harbor December ?, 1941 an interview in this small country town barely Hive ahe'said, miles from West Germany's border with Communist I was standing before the mirrof ln our '-eaing Czechoslovakia. room combing my hair when the attack came." she sald Sbe charged that high officers of the U.S.Navy at .In the mirror, opposite ths open window, I aw tho. Hawail used Kyehn as a scapegoat to cover up for what planea dive and come up again. They looked like hor- ehe called "extreme laxity in preparing against-the nets buzzing all over the aky.. Japanese sneak attack." ."My table radio was. going full blast. Suddenly the. Mrs. Kuehn, tall, sinewy and chain smoking, said her Jazz muslc program was interrupted. They are attack. family broke up as a tesult of persecution by the'F.B.I., Ing they are attacking'the announcer cried.The jaz which handled the Kuehn case. music was continued." Her daughter Ruth apd son Eberhard Iive in the She sald she thought the,Nayy wu carrying auta. United States. Ruth Kuehn's marrlage with J. Carson mock attack erercise. : Moore broke up. She marrled egain. Son Eberhard's "I couldn't believe anyone would play jazz while the .marriage also went on the rocks, she sald. fleet was ripped to pieces, while thousands died.' FALSELYACCUSED' RUSHES HOME .:. Her husband rushed home, acared, she said, by the and conyicted," she said.. detonations.He had taken their youngest boy to Sanday Mrs. Kuehn said another son, Hans Joachim, age 30.. school Later that day, the Kuehns joined in administering tried to commit suicide twice in May this year and wss subsequently put in an asylum. She is-attempting help at a Red Cross station. She said she gave shelter, to secure his release. to 12 persons made homeless by the sttack. For 10 months after our arrest by the F.B.I.,Hans SHIPPED TO MAINLAND. Joachim was put in the care of an evil man who taught The next day, the entire Kuehn clan was taken into him nasty things. He never recovered from the harm custody. done him then,".Mrs. Kuehn charged. From that day until 1955,I did not see my husband "I demand compensation from the U.S. Government again," she claimed. She and her husband were sub- for ali that has happened to us," she said. adding that mitted to "third degree" interrogations by FB.I. agents, Washington lawyer is handling her case. She would. she said. not disclose his name. "I will never forget it. One day, the prison guard Kuehn was convicted on charges of having co-oper- rranged a special meal for me and my husband. We ated with Japanese consular qfficials at Honolulu in both were in solitary confinement in a Honolulu jail. spying out the position of the U.S. fleet in Pear! Har- They told us this was our last meal and we might as bor. He was also alleged to have arranged a.special Iwell enjoy it because we were to be executed the nert signal system from the window of houses at Kalama. morning." and Lanikai, apparently to direct Japanese enemy dive. After her husband's secret trial, she was shipped to bombers. the U.S.Mainland and kept in internment. In 1944 she ALL ROT was repatriated to Germany with her son Hans Joachim, aboard the Swedish liner Gripsholm, she said. He was reported to bave received at least $14,000 She charged that her elder son, Eberhard, was fore- from the Japanese. Ibly kept in the United States although,.under the articies of the Geneva Convention, a minor should nof wards. "First of all, we werent Nezis. We lelt Germany be separated from his mother. "They even pressed him tnto the Army and made him because we hated the Hitler dlctatorship. That's why, flght in Korea. I haven't seen'my son since those days we went to Hawail." "My husband resigned his navai commisslon under. in Hawaii," ahe sajd. the Nazis. He was an intelligence officer while in the ice," she said. Kuehn's father ws a profeasor of chemistry at Stettin.. V.Otto Kuehn tried his hand in freelance journalism . after, leavins the German Navy.