The tag 'BND' is associated with 55 posts.

The New Germany and The Old Nazis

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?

Is Germany’s Domestic Intelligence Agency Protecting neo-Nazis?

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 [...]

Blockbuster Story: Germany Reopens Oktoberfest Bombing Probe

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 [...]

. . . . And Walther Rauff, Too!

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, [...]

Germany reopens hundreds of Nazi probes

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.

German Intelligence Service Destroys its File on Alois Brunner [Eichmann’s Deputy and Postwar German Intelligence Agent]

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 [...]

Deutsche Telekom Uber Alles (Bormann in Your Ear)

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 [...]

Update on the Eichmann File

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 [...]

WikiLeaks: U.S. and Germany Allegedly Planning Joint Reconnaissance Satellite Program

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 [...]

FTR #731 Interview with John Loftus about “America’s Nazi Secret”

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.

Anti-Fascist Archives

1984Looking Back from 1984 Int’l fascism as reaction to early 20th century socialist movements; U.S. industrial and financial support for Hitler. Read more »