May 14, 2004
AH, THE GOOD WAR...:
Book Details U.S. Protection Of Former Nazi Officials (Charles Lane, May 14, 2004, Washington Post)
Declassified government documents shed new light on the secret protection and support given to former Nazi officials and Nazi collaborators by U.S. intelligence agencies in the years following World War II, according to a book released yesterday by historians who have been reviewing the records for the government.The book, "U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis," is based on 240,000 pages of FBI records, 419 CIA files on individuals and 3,000 pages of U.S. Army information detailing the Army's postwar relationship with former officers of the German Wehrmacht's intelligence service, which are now available to the public through the National Archives. The records are the latest portion of about 8 million pages declassified since 1999 under two post-Cold War federal laws that opened up secret government files relating to war crimes by the World War II German and Japanese governments.
The book is "an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and the world of intelligence," Steve Garfinkel, chairman of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, said in a statement.
MORE:
Iraqis now fight alongside U.S. (RICHARD SISK, 5/14/04, NY DAILY NEWS)
This time, Iraqi soldiers are not running away as U.S.-led troops battle the forces of a renegade cleric in the southern holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.The U.S. went back to square one trying to get Iraqis to fight for their country after much of the force threw down their arms last month when insurgents rose up in Fallujah and other parts of the Sunni triangle near Baghdad.
"There's some respect for the fact that they're standing and fighting," Army Maj. Gen. Martin Dempsey said of his attempts to stiffen the backs of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps.
On his own initiative, Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, scrapped what he called the "bottom-up" formula for building the new Iraqi army by hiring recruits off the street for $54 a month.
Instead, Dempsey resorted to old-fashioned patronage and went to political, religious and clan leaders to get recruits from their private militias that the U.S. had nominally banned.
"I'm looking for political parties who, let's face it, have had militias," Dempsey said, and asking them "to give up their young men who maybe have been part of their militia, give them to me."
Ah, the Bad War... Posted by Orrin Judd at May 14, 2004 10:38 PM
If it's in the Washington Post we need not give it any credence. We've actually heard this story before, from Chomsky, who loved to talk about "US-Nazi collaboration." When you follow up, you find "collaboration" is a word Chomsky uses to mean "We captured Nazis and interrogated them."
Posted by: Fred at May 15, 2004 8:44 AMChomsky is a Nazi, of the Goebbels/Goering type.
Posted by: jim hamlen at May 15, 2004 12:50 PMGehlein wasn't merely interrogated.
There's plenty of evidence that pragmatic U.S. officials collaborated with Nazis. The space program you guys admire so much was run by mass murderers. See "Dora" and "The Rocket and the Reich."
Nothing new here. The Bolsheviks coopted czarists.
The only difference is that the Bolsheviks had the decency to murder the czarists once they were through with them.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at May 15, 2004 4:44 PMYes, that sums Harry up pretty well--a belief in the decency of Leninism/Stalinism
Posted by: oj at May 15, 2004 5:31 PMOf course, konowing what we know now, they might
have mounted an insurgency, under some popular
rubric, either that or joined with the Stalinists
in the East
There is a limit to the degree to which Western
man will commit fratricide.
That some commentators are surprised suggests
a thin grasp of what underpins Western success.
Thank God we got Von Braun.
Posted by: J.H. at May 17, 2004 9:20 AMWere we to destroy the brightest minds of
Germans in some form of ethnic
cleansing?
You know as well as I that the war with Germany
was a roll of the dice and had America's
domestic situation evolved differently we could
have fought the Soviets.
You are very concerned about the death of the
West. I personally think that the war was the
deathblow. Come on O.J., there is no American
genius apart from what which was transported from
the old-country with its founders. America just
presented a better blank slate to implement
liberalism.
This book seems to confirm what we know or
suspected all along. Collaborations of various
big corporations with Nazis during the war,
recruitment Nazis to NASA, CIA, FBI.
It also illustrate the fact that the Truth will
surface, and at the end people of the World
will see US of A and foundations on which it stands for what it's worth.
Believe me SH for every German in our postware
agencies there were probably 10 bolsheviks
and 3 or 4 zionist spies.