A TOP NAZI WHO ALMOST GOT AWAY
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HOW EVIL ESCAPED
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Guy Walters
[Daily Mail-April 2-2007]
AS THE NAZI bureaucrat responsible for sending at least two million Jews to their deaths, Adolf Eichmann was one of the most evil men in history.
But newly released documents yesterday revealed that British efforts to hunt for one of the chief architects of the Holocaust were called off in early 1947, less than two years after the end of WWII. In a cruel twist, it later turned out that Eichmann had been living under the noses of his hunters, hiding in the British-controlled zone of Germany , before smuggling himself out to South America.
The files, newly declassified by the National Archives. show that in February 1947, a Major Cooper, wrote to a senior officer, informing him that 'an exhaustive search had been carried out but the only indication of his fate was he may of committed suicide'.
As a result, the case was closed, and Eichmann remained free until he was spectacularly abducted by Israeli secret service agents from Argentina in May 1960. He was put on trial in Israel and was hanged in June 1962.
The news that the British stopped looking for Eichmann quite so soon is a huge embarrassment, but as a historian who is researching
'HUNTING EVIL'
-a major new book on the efforts to bring former Nazis to justice, it comes as no surprise to me.
[It is also in March 2007 and since October 10-2005 when we received details from the
International Currency Review
an international journal of great respect in the financial and security world and possibly the only independent observer of reliable reputation to put before the public details of TREACHERY by British subjects which commenced in Balliol College Oxford just before the Second World War where a ring of Nazi agents where identified by the British secret service. They include a late demised prime minister Edward Heath- Roy Jenkins-later Lord Jenkins and Geoffrey Rippon amongst others who are still amongst us today and have yet to be outed.
We have also attended a eurosceptic meeting in Marlborough recently where we met Harry Beckhough who spent time in Germany in the 1930's and again in post-war Germany and met the first post-war Chancellor of Germany. During WWII he was a code breaker in Station X -Bletchley Park . Extracts of his publication
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During the course of my research, I have come across countless documents and spoken to many people who confirm that Britain lacked the will and the wherewithal to hunt down the perpetrators of genocide, and was instead more interested in arresting Nazis who murdered British PoWs.
As one former officer in the War Crimes Investigation Unit recently told me:
'War crimes were not at the forefront of people's minds.'
The formation of what was originally called the War Crimes Investigation Team in April 1945 was an ad hoc affair, conceived only
'because of the numbers of war criminals being uncovered'
- wrote one officer. this seems an extraordinary admission, as the Allies had known the brutality for many years.
To make matters worse, bureaucracy and military bungling held up the formation of the team, and by June of 1945, it was still not properly formed.
'Until we get these teams completed with men who are up to the work' an irate colonel wrote to his brigadier, 'we shall not be able to meet our responsibilities for
WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION.
'Meantime, the public, Press and political interest in the matter is such that delay is likely to bring a storm down upon us if we cannot produce results in the near future.'
It was a prescient admission, and one reached the ears of the prime Minister himself, Clement Attlee. In November 1945, Atlee wrote to the Secretary of State for War, saying that he was 'concerned at the delays which have occurred with regard to the prosecution of war criminals.
'It is essential that the persons on whom rests responsibility for the investigation of
WAR CRIMES
-and the bringing to trial of the authors should be officers with drive and energy and that the high priority to be accorded to war crimes matters should be carefully understood.'
[Well with the latest developments from the International Currency Review in October 2005 with the disclosure that Edward Heath after under suspicion at Balliol College ,Oxford before the war was placed in a secret planning department responsible for getting new aircraft from the drawing stage into service. It is a marvel why MI5 allowed him access to such important and sensitive information. While Heath was in the department an inventor was killed because of sabotage but he got away free. Further details on our bulletin board.]
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SADLY, Attlee's words went unheeded. Although the officers and men were of good quality, there was not nearly enough of them and neither did they have any background in detective work.
In fact, by Christmas 1945, the team could boast just 11 officers searching for war criminals - apathetic figure when one considers that the Allies 'wanted list' would run to
50,000 names.
All this played into the hands of those Nazis on the run, and none more so than Adolf Eichmann.
It is important to remember that it was not until 1946, during the Nuremberg trials, that the enormity of his crimes were fully appreciated by the Allies.
NEVERTHELESS, they were certainly appreciated by Eichmann who knowing he faced certain execution if caught, had initially disguised himself as a Luftwaffe corporal to escape the encroaching Allied forces at the end of the war.
After a few days on the run, he was detained by US. troops near Ulm in southern Germany. In the confusion of victory, they had no inkling of his true identity, though they were able to identify him as a member of the SS by the distinctive tattoo on his arm.
Eichmann changed his identity again. posing as a junior SS lieutenant named Otto Eckmann.
This time, the American's believed his story, but because he was considered of only limited value as a prisoner, Eichmann was able to escape from one poorly guarded detention centre in February 1946, and go into hiding once more, posing as a Bavarian businessman called Otto Henninger.
Eichmann then travelled across Germany , lodging with an informal network of SS sympathisers, before lying low as a forestry worker near Bremen.
By all accounts, Eichmann was content, and none of his fellow workers, many of whom had been in the army had not any inkling of who their fellow forester was.
But after two years, the forestry company went bust, so Eichmann tried his hand at chicken farming, at which he enjoyed some success- one neighbour recalled how the former bureaucrat was 'very good at helping me fill in forms'.
But estranged from his family and haunted by the fear that his true identity would be uncovered, he eventually fled to Buenos Aires by sea, where the sympathetic government of Juan Peron provided cover for former Nazis.
The irony is that Eichmann had no reason to fear those who should have been hunting him down. Throughout his time as woodsman, the British War Crime teams instead of searching for men like him , had instead been concentrating on Nazis who had committed crimes against British servicemen.
'We weren't really aware of the big fish' a former investigator told me. 'Quite honestly, we had enough on our hands with the small fry.'
The trouble was, hunting down 'the small fry' was a slow business. If the suspect was not already in an Allied detention centre, then a full0scale manhunt had to be launched - not easy task in the wreckage of a bombed out Germany.
Records had to be combed and thousands of miles driven on atrocious roads in freezing conditions to follow up the scantest of leads.
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OFTEN, the investigators were given disinformation by Germans still sympathetic to the Nazis. One method of throwing pursuers off the track was to tell them the suspect had killed himself, which may account for the supposition that this fate had befallen Eichmann.
The painfully slow pace of the investigators' work now looks infuriating. One of my interviewers told me dealt with just 12 cases in eight months he was attached to the unit. Of these, he had four successes -three men were hanged and the other was already dead.
Nevertheless, the officers did their best.
I don't think the enormity of the job ever hit us. We were just lads.'
Clearly, it would have been impossible for every Nazi war criminal to be brought to justice. But with the wisdom of hindsight, the limited resources and manpower should have been directed at searching for the 'big fish'.
In the end, it would be left to the people most affected by Eichmann to hunt him down - the Jews.
Tipped off by a former concentration camp inmate whose daughter had befriended one of Eichmann's sons, Mossad travelled to Argentina where, after several weeks of surveillance, they were able to confirm his identity.
On May 11, 1960, he was kidnapped by secret agents and smuggled out of the country ten days later.
After years of giving the British the slip, the man who sent millions to their death was finally held to account for his vile deeds.
[What was unknown to the public until October -2005 and not officially released was that before the war there was a ring of Nazis in Balliol College Oxford which were given away to MI5 by the Master A. Lindsay. they included a later Prime Minister Edward Heath-Roy Jenkins (Lord Jenkins) and Geoffrey Rippon also a later Minister.
When one realises that Edward Heath was given a job in a drawing office of a secure unit which was in the business of putting new aircraft into the skies one wonders what MI5 and MI6 where about because an inventor in that secret establishment was killed because of sabotage of the controls of the aircraft.
The Three Traitors -the last Edward Heath died in 2003 after he visited Salzburg in that year , ostensibly to attend the Music Festival there, the real reason for his visit was that he had been summoned to DACHAU near Munich, Germany, where DVD warned him that British Intelligence were intending to confront him with his treachery.
It is reported that, on hearing this, Heath literally 'blew a fuse': He suffered a
pulmonary embolism
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