4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Christine Kuehn knew hardly anything about her father’s family. But when a mysterious letter reaches her doorstep in 1994, it kicks off a 30-year journey uncovering her family's Nazi history, and their role in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. |
| 0:04.8 | Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable |
| 0:10.3 | themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there. |
| 0:14.7 | Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scaleups, online, |
| 0:20.1 | in person and on the go. Shopify is made for |
| 0:22.8 | entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. |
| 0:30.0 | Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from the Marotra Institute at |
| 0:35.8 | B.U Questrum School of Business. |
| 0:37.9 | A recent episode asks, are boardrooms ready for the new geopolitical reality? |
| 0:43.3 | Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview the episode. |
| 0:48.3 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:56.5 | This is On Point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:59.7 | On December 7, 1941, Imperial Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. |
| 1:06.4 | 2,400 Americans were killed that day and 1,100 wounded. |
| 1:11.1 | For much of her life, Christine Kewen did not know that she had a direct connection to Pearl Harbor, |
| 1:18.1 | not because she lost family that day, but because her family had helped Imperial Japan carry out the attack that thrust the United States into the Second World War. |
| 1:30.5 | That terrible revelation is in her new book, Family of Spies, a World War II story of Nazi espionage, |
| 1:38.0 | betrayal, and the secret history behind Pearl Harbor. |
| 1:42.0 | And Christine joins us now, along with her husband, Mark Shapone, who helped |
| 1:46.0 | research and write the book. Christine, first to you, welcome to On Point. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:53.1 | And Mark, welcome to you as well. Thanks for having us, Magna. Appreciate it. So, Christine, |
| 1:58.5 | let me start first with kind of a fateful day for you in 1987 when you went to visit your Aunt Ruth, who I understand you had never met prior to that day. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 17 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WBUR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of WBUR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.