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?

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, [...]

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 [...]

Addendum to FTRs 721, 731

COMMENT: In FTR #721, we exam­ined the devel­op­ment of West­ern intel­li­gence uti­liza­tion of Islamists and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in par­tic­u­lar. Much of the pro­gram cen­tered on Ger­hardt von Mende, a Third Reich intel­li­gence oper­a­tive who used his Third Reich Islamists on behalf of the Fed­eral Repub­lic of Ger­many.
In A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA [...]

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 [...]

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.

FTR #725 Leak This! WikiSpooks and the World of Stieg Larsson

Wik­iLeaks inex­tri­ca­bly linked with intel­li­gence ser­vices around the world; A founder of the group says they act like “spies”; Wik­iLeaks’ Swedish base of oper­a­tions over­laps the Swedish fas­cist polit­i­cal milieu por­trayed in the Stieg Lars­son books and movies.

Truth in Advertising: GOP Candidate Dresses in Waffen SS Uniform

Com­ment: GOP Con­gres­sional can­di­date Rich Iott of Ohio has been fly­ing col­ors that demon­strate the true nature of the Repub­li­can party. A favorite of the Tea Par­ties, Iott for years par­tic­i­pated in “reen­act­ments” of bat­tles of the Fifth Waf­fen SS divi­sion (Viking). (Iott is sec­ond from right in this photo.)

As noted in numer­ous broad­casts, the [...]

German Intelligence Continues the Eichmann Cover-Up

Com­ment: We have exam­ined the refusal of the Ger­man intel­li­gence ser­vice to release its files on Adolf Eich­mann, the archi­tect of Hitler’s exter­mi­na­tion of the Jews.
Hav­ing osten­si­bly reversed its posi­tion, the BND–successor to the Rein­hard Gehlen spy outfit–withheld more then 1,000 pages from jour­nal­ist Gabriele Weber (who sued to obtain their release). Of the 2,400 [...]