Book and Author: Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor  

Christine Kuehn thought she knew her family. Then a letter showed up from a Hollywood screenwriter asking if she was related to the Nazis who helped bomb Pearl Harbor. She called her father. He hung up. Fifteen minutes later he called back, crying. 

It was all true. 

Her grandfather, Otto Kuehn, had been personally dispatched to Hawaii by Joseph Goebbels to spy on the American fleet. From a house overlooking the naval base, he photographed warplanes lined up wingtip to wingtip. His daughter seduced Navy officers for intelligence. He rigged a lantern signal system to feed ship movements to Japanese submarines lurking offshore. On December 7, 1941, those submarines knew exactly where to strike. The FBI came for the family the next night. Otto was sentenced to death by military tribunal. He remains the only person ever tried and convicted for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. 

Kuehn’s father was fifteen years old when it happened. He renounced his family, refused deportation to Germany, and at eighteen enlisted in the U.S. Army. He fought at Okinawa. He never spoke to his father again. He never told his daughter a word of it. 

Join us as Kuehn takes the audience inside one of the most extraordinary hidden chapters of the Second World War, a story of coercion, complicity, and the crushing weight of a secret kept across generations. 

A post-program book signing will follow. 

Free to the public. Reservations required.