They raise their right arms in unison and chant, “Sieg heil. They pledge allegiance until death to the leader of the Nazi Empire, Adolf Hitler. In the first scene of the second season, released in its entirety on Friday, school buses pull into Fritz Julius Kuhn High School, as girls and boys in Nazi sashes pile into classrooms.
But in the reality of the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle, Kuhn is an American hero. In our reality, Fritz Julius Kuhn died in 1951 in Munich, Germany, “ a poor and obscure chemist, unheralded and unsung.” The former leader of an American organization that promoted Nazism within the United States, Kuhn was found guilty in 1939 of embezzling funds to spend on his mistress, and deported to Germany in 1945.
