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Newly Revealed CIA Memorandum Reveals that US High-Level Nazi’s Role in the Holocaust Has Been Diluted to Serve a Cold War Asset
In the years after World War II, the United States and West Germany worked together to conceal the role of a high-ranking Nazi official in the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews, according to information recently released by German public broadcaster ARD. , according to The New York Times. . Franz Josef Huber led a large part of the Gestapo – Adolf Hitler’s secret police – that stretched across Austria, and his forces worked closely with Adolf Eichmann to coordinate the deportation of Jews to concentration and extermination camps. Eichmann, famously, was tried and executed in Israel in 1962 for his role in the Holocaust, but Huber escaped fate, although he was arrested in 1945 by American forces. He was released in 1948 and continued to live out his days in Munich. to seemingly avoid responsibility altogether because he was seen as a potential asset of the Cold War. The CIA, for example, believed he could help recruit agents in the Soviet bloc. As stated in one 1953 memo, the agency was “by no means inconsiderate of the dangers of playing with a Gestapo general”, but “we also believe that Huber, based on the information now in our possession, The West German intelligence service, the BND, gave him a front-page story, and it took 20 years before the agency decided “they could no longer tolerate the connection”, writes the Times . While Huber’s story may be striking because of its important position in the Third Reich, prof. Shlomo Shpiro of Bar-Ilan University of Israel explains that ‘Western intelligence services have struggled to recruit reliable anti-communist contacts’, meaning they have the backgrounds potential assets. “Many former Nazis took advantage of the new communist threat to secure for themselves both the immunity from prosecution of war crimes and the hefty salaries of American and West German intelligence agencies,” he said. Read more at The New York Times. More stories from theweek.com Trump’s circle does not defend Matt Gaetz because ‘not many people are surprised’ about the allegations Janet Yellen’s proposal to cause a revolution in corporate taxation. lyne ‘