Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Known Nazi Worked

From the BBC:
"Wanted Nazi Walther Rauff 'was West German spy'"

A high-ranking Nazi officer who helped develop a mobile gas chamber became a spy for West Germany after World War II, archives have revealed. Former SS officer Walther Rauff worked for West German intelligence service, the BND, between 1958 and 1962.
Rauff died in Chile in 1984, having evaded trial for war crimes. The charges related to his time as an official of the criminal technical institute of the Reich security main office, which he joined in 1941. As US intelligence later put it, Rauff designed gas vans used to murder Jews and people with disabilities. With German defeat he fled to Chile and changed his name to Enrico Gomez. But the BND traced him and recruited him as spy, ostensibly to go to Cuba to spy on leader Fidel Castro. He was denied entry but still earned more than DM70,000 ($18,000, £11,500) during his time with the service. Publicly he became a wanted man when his wartime role was brought to light but - even after his arrest by Chilean police in 1962 - he was being supported by the BND. Mr Hechelhammer disclosed that the agency was paying his legal bills as he fought extradition. He showed no remorse for his Nazi past, and remained in Chile till his death at the age of 77.

^ What, the German Government actively recruited known Nazis? That is a shock. Of course, this is not surprising in the least. ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15069333

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