1942: From the News Archives of History - Jailed Bund Leader says "AMERICA OVERREACTED TO DECEMBER 7th, 1941"

 

 

 

by Fritz Julius Kuhn

 

April 27, 1942

Five months after December 7th, can anyone doubt that the Axis powers are simply not that deadly a threat? Since that somewhat unpleasant day last year, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Herr Hitler and Tojo's so-called "war" network has been unable to launch a single major attack on high-value targets in the United States. While it hast caused attacks by the Wehrmacht in Europe and the Japanese Imperial Navy in the south Pacific, it has been unable to execute a single one in America.

I do not minimize the Axis' intentions, which may indeed be a bit nasty. I question its capabilities. America clearly overreacted to December 7th and the so-called "declarations of war" by Deutschland und Japan.

 

German American Bund Leader Fritz Julius Kuhn (photo by Wolfgang)

 

This error in judgement by the American authorities ist quite damaging to Japanese-Americans and German-Americans in this country, and should be apologized for, and reparations should be paid to all who have been hurt by the subsequent spike in Japophobia and especially Naziophobia.

Also, the government should immediately release me from this internment camp in Texas so that I can begin zee bridge-building process with my planned inter-political community center (mit only a tiny Ehrentemple attached) at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

In the past, the U.S. government has always built up for wars, assumed emergency authority, and sometimes abused that power, yet always demobilized after the war. But in 1942, only twenty-four years after the end of the Great War which was caused by the dirty Jüden, we're just coming out of a great depression, and right now we simply cannot afford to treat our present situation like a "war".

 

I propose the United States should promptly stop resisting der Führer und Emporer Tojo so zat we can halt this racist nonsense about some kind of "threat" from the so-called Axis powers.

 

If there is any government in the world that is a threat to global peace in 1942 and beyond, it ist certainly the United States of America, and especially that Jew Roosevelt.

 

Zeig heil!