1. Horace L Hahn was an American actor best known for working with Cecil B DeMille on several films as a young man, including a supporting role in This Day and Age.
14 Facts About Horace Hahn
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Horace Hahn served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, and assisted Justice Robert H Jackson as an interrogator in connection with the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Horace Hahn's mother died when he was quite young and he was later adopted by his father's second wife, Lois.
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Horace Hahn attended John Burroughs Middle School and Los Angeles High School, where he placed first in the citywide Shakespeare Competition in 1932, and was the winner of the Herald Oratorical Contest in 1933.
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Horace Hahn acted in numerous Shakespeare stage productions during his years at Los Angeles High School, UCLA, and Stanford Law School.
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Horace Hahn was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army in 1942.
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Horace Hahn was recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by Maj.
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Horace Hahn parachuted behind enemy lines into Czechoslovakia, and later received an award from the Czechoslovakian Government in exile for his services in capturing a Nazi gauleiter in that country.
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Captain Horace Hahn conducted interrogations, including that of colonel of the Luftwaffe Bernd von Brauchitsch, who served on the staff of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring.
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Captain Horace Hahn was one of the few Americans allowed to interrogate General Schellenberg.
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Horace Hahn returned to Los Angeles by 1947, where he was a founding member and director of the Los Angeles High School Alumni Association.
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Horace Hahn was a founding member of two prominent Los Angeles law firms where he practiced business law for five decades.
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At age 70, Horace Hahn suffered an almost complete loss of vision while hiking in the Himalayas.
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Horace Hahn became active in the San Diego Center for the Blind, eventually serving as chairman of the board.