Book written in 1961 asks: Has Germany really changed? If so, where are the hundreds of thousands who once faithfully and eagerly served Hitler’s reign of terror? And what is life like today for the Jews who are still in Germany?
COMMENT: Germany’s domestic intelligence service is supposed to fight Nazis, not protect them. Yet Der Spiegel informs us that just such a situation is suspected by observers of a Nazi crime wave implemented over about a decade and a half.
As discussed in a previous Der Spiegel story, collusion between Nazis and elements of German intelligence [...]
COMMENT: While the world awaits the outcome of the Greek referendum on the EU bailout package, a blockbuster story from Der Spiegel has been eclipsed.
German officials have reopened the investigation into the Munich Oktoberfest bombing of 1980, blamed on a “lone nut,” Gundolf Kohler. Far from being a lone nut, Kohler actually had profound [...]
COMMENT: Adding to the already long list of heinous war criminals who found shelter and employment with the Gehlen organization, is the BBC”s disclosure that Walther Rauff found a niche with the BND.
Originator of the mobile gas chambers–vans that fed lethal carbon monoxide into the passenger area–Rauff worked for the then West German intelligence service, [...]
German authorities have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of Nazi death camp guards in an eleventh hour attempt that could result in at least dozens of new prosecutions.
COMMENT: Following closely on its refusal to effect complete disclosure of its files on Eichmann, the BND (the German intelligence service), has destroyed its files on Eichmann’s deputy Alois Brunner.
As discussed in AFA #3, evidence is strong that Brunner worked for the BND after World War II. Recall that the BND sprouted from [...]
COMMENT: The recent sale of T Mobile to AT & T involved the transfer of slightly over 5 percent of A T & T’s stock to Deutsche Telekom. (Deutsche Telekom, controlled by the German government, is the former parent company of T Mobile.)
It is not clear if this will give DT access to A [...]
COMMENT: We’ve been following a paper chase entailing an ongoing German government/BND coverup of what the Federal Republic knew of Adolf Eichmann’s whereabouts following the war.
As we saw in FTR #558, Eichmann worked on contract for Gehlen’s organization in the Middle East. (The BND was the final incarnation of the Gehlen organization, which originated as the [...]
COMMENT: One of the diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks alleges that a joint U.S./German spy satellite program will essentially be run by Germany.
This has a number of interesting implications, among them, some thoughts about the death of William Wheeler III. Working for the Mitre Corporation, he was involved with an entity deeply involved with satellite [...]
Conspiratorial process on a massive scale produced fascism, World War II; economically empowered by the Webb-Pomerene Act, the backers of the Axis collaborated with Wall Street’s Robber Barons before, during and after the war. State and Justice Departments complicit.
Looking Back from 1984 Int’l fascism as reaction to early 20th century socialist movements; U.S. industrial and financial support for Hitler. Read more »