Post WW2 West Germany helped Eichmann hide

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West Germany could have hunted down Adolf Eichmann, the chief organizer of the Holocaust, as early as 1952, eight years before Israeli agents caught him in Buenos Aires, according to a newly released document that suggests postwar Germany was unready and unwilling to put him on trial.

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A secret service document obtained by the German mass-circulation daily Bild from the archives of the BND, the country's foreign intelligence service, shows that the BND knew the location of the Adolf Eichmann, the biggest Nazi criminal still at large at the time, as early as 1952 -- a full eight years before he was caught in Buenos Aires by Israeli agents. He was put on trial in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.

The typewritten file card states that Eichmann was living in Argentina under the alias Clemens. "The address of E. is known to the editor-in-chief of the German newspaper in Argentina 'Der Weg'," the card says.

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"Who would have been interested in having an Eichmann trial when even the chancellor declared in early 1953 that all the talk of Nazis should stop?" [German historian] Stangneth told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

West Germany's police force, justice system, intelligence service and civil administration were filled with former Nazis after the war.

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"Imagine if he had been in the dock in Germany in 1953. How many people would he have recognized and pointed out? There were very many people in Germany who weren't particularly keen on seeing him again."

As coordinator of the system that killed 6 million Jews, Eichmann had sat in on interministerial meetings to discuss the workings of the genocide, and would have known many officials who subsequently got jobs in the West German administration, said Stangneth.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,738757,00.html

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At least he did swing at the end of a rope, and was brought to answer for what he did.

More than can be said for Mengele and so many other criminals who lived out their days peacefully. (Mengele drowned ... hopefully he was filled with terror and dread as his lungs filled with water).

[peejay 327]

This is not really surprising revelation. Germany would be the last country I would expect to prosecute Nazi war crimes. However, I'm not really sold on the notion that it was the official government policy of West Germany to protect Nazi war criminals.

As with all criminals...some get caught and some get away. Eichmann's chickens eventually came to roost. What you sow is what you reap.

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At least he did swing at the end of a rope, and was brought to answer for what he did.

More than can be said for Mengele and so many other criminals who lived out their days peacefully. (Mengele drowned ... hopefully he was filled with terror and dread as his lungs filled with water).

one can hope. but even those circumstances seem far, far too comfortable, given who we're talking about.

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Giving refuge to war criminals and murder's/butcher's should be a crime...or at least you would think so eh ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Morel

"Salomon Morel"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman_Dushanski

"Nachman Dushanski"