Nazi was post-war spy for Germany in South America

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Nazi was post-war spy for Germany in South America
Published: 3:35PM Tuesday September 27, 2011
Source: Reuters

A high-ranking Nazi officer, who helped develop a mobile gas chamber, became a spy for West Germany after World War Two and went on a training course for the BND intelligence agency despite German warrants for his arrest, BND archives showed.

"In hindsight, the recruitment of Walther Rauff is politically and morally incomprehensible," said BND historian Bodo Hechelhammer on Monday.

Rauff, who was a top SS security officer in Nazi Germany, was a BND agent in South America between 1958 and 1962, earning more than 70,000 Deutsche marks (about $US18,000), Hechelhammer said. Rauff died in Chile in 1984 having evaded attempts to bring him to justice.

The BND, formed after World War Two with the help of the United States, even sent money to pay for Rauff's legal fees when he fought extradition from Chile to face war crimes.

Read more: http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/nazi-post-war-spy-germany-in-south-america-4422801

[Nostradammit]

1. This would be a great time for the majority of Americans to learn about our Nazi affiliations

Might wake a few people up to what's been going on this last half-century.

God-damned fascists.

[leveymg]

2. "He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but at least he's our SOB"

- FDR to aide about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, Sr.

I'm afraid we owned a lot of fascists, and some of them owned us. Take Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker, for instance. . .

[roguevalley]

6. google prescott bush.

[fasttense]

3. Mobile gas chamber?

Wow, how horrible. Who could have thought that the millions of people slaughtered through stationary gas chambers was such a good outcome they had to create a mobile gas chamber?

Why a Nazi of course. Ok, I answered my own question.

[COLGATE4]

4. It's the other way around. The Nazis first tried using mobile gas

chambers, i.e. trucks where Jews were placed in the cargo area and the exhaust was redirected to them. This proved to be too expensive (cost of gasoline) and way too slow for the Nazis, so they then proceeded to design and build the gas chambers we are sadly all too familiar with. These little gems of German engineering had the capacity to 'process' several thousand Jews a day. Even so, by war's end, the Camp Commandants were complaining that they didn't have enough equipment to 'finish the job'.

[Blue_Tires]

5. I wonder how many CIA jobs he freelanced or consulted for...

[roguevalley]

7. werner von braun flight center in texas. it sticks in my craw sideways