Posted on 11/14/2010 2:39:42 AM PST by nickcarraway
A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.
The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.
It describes the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at Auschwitz, part of whose scalp was kept in a Justice Department official’s drawer; the vigilante killing of a former Waffen SS soldier in New Jersey; and the government’s mistaken identification of the Treblinka concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
The report catalogs both the successes and failures of the band of lawyers, historians and investigators at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which was created in 1979 to deport Nazis.
Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés. Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.’s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.
The Justice Department report, describing what it calls “the government’s collaboration with persecutors,” says that O.S.I investigators learned that some of the Nazis “were indeed knowingly granted entry” to the United States, even though government officials were aware of their pasts. “America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became — in some small measure — a safe haven for persecutors as well,” it said.
The report also documents divisions within the government over
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Yes apparently teach the fine upstanding little Nazis we have in our administration now.
Dr. Joseph Mengele was a German physician and a SS Officer in a Nazi concentration camp. He had two doctorate degrees, one from Munich University in anthropology and the other from Frankfurt University in medicine. He was known for being the person who decided which prisoners were going to be killed and which were forced into labor. He also was known for performing experiments on the inmates. He was called the Angel of Death. He liked to do experiments on twins and dwarfs.
This will hurt Mr. Soros’ business.
I am sure we learned quite a bit from these people.
The CIA (of that era) does not give safe-haven without getting something in return.
This article is just another liberal, anti-American hit-piece.
The issue of the WWII Nazis has lingering political overtones because of the Cold War. Leftists tend not to see the Soviets as an enemy and therefore discount the usefulness of Germans who were willing to collaborate in the anti-communist effort. The moral equation looks easy if you refuse to acknowledge the dilemma.
You are right. I’m sure mistakes were made, but the whole thing has to be viewed in the context of the cold war.
Same thing happened in Japan. We put Japanese germ scientist on the US payroll after WWII even after they had done experiments on US pow's.
"...at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Communists suddenly transformed the 'Anti-Nazi League' into the "Hollywood Peace Forum," calling for American neutrality and using the slogan 'Let's Skip the Next War.'..."
--Ronald Radosh, from his book, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance With the Left
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4251
Yes and they started abortion clinics and became Democrat ward leaders.
lets see... Rooosevelt signed a death warrant for much of eastern europe with Stalin, and the RATS are wailing about a few NAZI's...
It seems most of these men where scientists and technical experts. They were the war trophies that both the US and USSR rushed to seize for themselves.
Most people have no idea about the degree to which Nazis penetrated, and gained control of, the CIA. For a good treatment of this, see the book NAZI International, by Joseph Farrell; also the various works of Jim Marrs.
MENGELE - Gives new meaning to “Harvesting Equipment”.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN (SOCIALIST, DEMOCRAT) SHIELDED NATIONAL SOCIALIST WAR CRIMINALS
Their ideologies are basically the same - on the History Channel, etc. there are a lot of shows about nazis - almost none about communists. Don’t get me wrong - the nazis were (and are) evil, but the communists were (and are) worse. It is grossly hypocritical that our media doesn’t point out the documented evils of communism over the past century with at least the same enthusiasm as when they’re pointing out the documented evils of the nazis before and during WWII.
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