Miami Herald reporter had early encounter with Holocaust Museum suspect

* Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009

Miami Herald reporter had early encounter with Holocaust Museum suspect

By Douglas Hanks | McClatchy Newspapers

There was a time when James von Brunn didn't want the public to know how much he hated Jewish people. I know because he was furious at me for wanting to spread the word. It even got physical for a moment.

It was May 1994, and I was working at a reporter for von Brunn's local newspaper, The Star Democrat in Easton, Md. My assignment: find the source of an anti-Semitic program airing on Easton's cable access channel. It led me, of course, to von Brunn.

"The enemy of the white race has always been the Jew," von Brunn told me as we sat in a conference room off the newsroom. "They seek to destroy us."

Though I took notes throughout, von Brunn became agitated when he realized I planned to report not just on the cable shows, but on him, too.

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