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Stahlhelm Man is Boston Nazi, Paper Shows

January 28, 1935
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Proof that Walter Kuhring, commander of the Boston Stahlhelmbund, German veterans’ group, is directly associated with the German Nazi movement, despite his frequent denials that he is a Nazi, was offered here today by Maxwell Cohen, national adjutant of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. Kuhring was also shown to be soliciting aid from German Nazis for an anti-Jewish campaign in the United States.

A recent issue of the Voelkischer Beobachter, leading Nazi paper, published in Berlin, containing a lengthy article from Kuhring, was exhibited by Mr. Cohen.

In the article the Boston Nazi asked the German Nazi movement to “aid us Germans abroad in our fight against the Jews.” Kuhring also requested Nazi literature to be distributed in Boston and stated:

“We Germans abroad, especially

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