Kuehn family

Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn (sometimes referred to as Kuhn, German spelling with Umlaut: "Kühn") (1894 or 95 – 1956) and his family were spies in the employ of the Abwehr for Nazi Germany who had close ties to Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

[1] In 1935, Goebbels offered Kuehn a job working for Japanese intelligence in Hawaii; he accepted and moved his family to Honolulu on August 15, 1935.

The family included Dr. Kuehn, 41 years old; his wife, Friedel; a daughter, Susie Ruth (at 17, she was the former mistress of Goebbels);[1] and her half-brother, Hans Joachim.

Every morning, Bernard would dress up young Hans as a U.S. Navy sailor to show their patriotism, and they would both go walk along the waterfront.

[1] The family lived the good life on Japanese pay, but Bernard Kuehn soon came to the attention of the FBI as a possible suspect because of his Nazi connections and lack of any source of income.

[6] After volunteering valuable information about the Japanese and German spy networks, his sentence was commuted to 50 years in prison with hard labor.