[I've been looking for this list for years, only to find it in my favorites list buried at the bottom. If we can assume that the escaped Nazis had some effect on the politics of Brazil and Argentina, this area of study, as if any one will be allowed access, is deeply interesting. It's not just about the destruction of the Banu Qurayza or the history of dhimmitude any more.]
The Iconoclast blog of the New England Review 5/10/2009
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One More Nazi on the Nile
Unlike the Nazi war criminals who fled to South America, those who fled to Arab countries, like Aribert Heim [1], did not have to hide their identities, and they often were employed by Arab governments, especially by Egypt. [That would be both King Faruck’s royal and Nasserite Egypt.]
Here is a list, found in a footnote in "Il Gotteskamp di Johann von Leers" by Claudio Mutti. The text is in Italian, but the Nazi names, and the Muslim names so many of them took on -- as it says toward the end, "[l]a maggior parte di loro abbracciò l’Islam" (most of them embraced Islam)-- should be easy to make out: [I have added the translation of their military ranks.]
"Tra coloro che svolsero un ruolo politico o militare in Egitto, possiamo citare: Hans Apeler, alias Salah Ghaffar (Ministero dell’Informazione), Franz Bartel alias el-Hussein (Ministero dell’Informazione), il generale della Wehrmacht Wilhelm Farmbacher (consigliere militare di Nasser), l’SS Standartenführer [colonel] Baumann (Ministero della Guerra; istruttore del Fronte di Liberazione della Palestina), l’ex commissario della Gestapo Erich Altern alias Ali Bella, l’SS Sturmbannführer [major] Walter Balmann alias Alì ben Khader, l’ex aiutante di campo di Rommel Fritz Bayerlein, Hans Becher (istruttore della polizia), l’ex ufficiale della Gestapo Wilhelm Beissner, l’SS Sturmbannführer Bernhard Bender alias Bashir ben Salah (consigliere della polizia politica), l’SS Untersturmführer [second lieutenant] Wilhelm Boerner alias Ali Ben Kasher (Ministero degli Interni, istruttore del Fronte di Liberazione della Palestina), Werner Birgel alias el-Gamin (Ministero dell’Informazione), l’SS Untersturmführer Wilhelm Boeckler alias Abd el-Karim, l’SS Hauptsturmführer [captain] Alois Brunner alias Alì Mohammed, l’SS Obergruppenführer[lieutenant general] Friedrich Buble alias Ben Amman (Dipartimento Relazioni Pubbliche), Franz Bünsch, l’SA Obersturmführer[senior captain] Erich Bunzel, il capo della Gestapo di Düsseldorf Joachim Daemling alias Jochen Dressel alias Ibrahim Mustafa (Radio Cairo), l’SS Obergruppenführer Oskar Dirlewanger, il medico SS dr. Hans Eisele, l’SS Sturmbahnführer Eugen Fichberger, l’SS Standartenführer Leopold Gleim alias al-Nasher (Servizi di Sicurezza), l’ex assistente di Goebbels barone von Harder, l’ex giornalista del Welt-Dienst Ludwig Heiden alias al-Haj (traduttore del Mein Kampf in arabo), l’SS Hauptsturmführer Heribert Heim (medico della polizia), l’ex dirigente della Gestapo Franz Hithofer, Ulrik Klaus alias Muhammad Akbar, l’ex dirigente dellaHitlerjugend Karl Luder (Ministero della Guerra), l'SS Standartenführer Gerhard Mertins, Rudolf Midner, l’SS Gruppenführer [major general] Alois Moser (istruttore delle Camicie Verdi), l’SS Sturmbannführer Oskar Münzel (consigliere militare), Gerd von Nimzekalias Ben Alì, Achim Dieter Pelschnik alias el-Said, Franz Rademacher, Walter Rauff, l’SS Sturmbahnführer Schmalstich, l’SS Sturmbannführer Seipel alias Imad Zuher, l’ex funzionario della Gestapo Heinrich Sellmann alias Hasan Suleyman (Ministero dell’Informazione), Albert Thiemann alias Amman Qader, l’SS Standartenführer Erich Weinmann, il dr. Werner Wietschenke, il medico SS Heinrich Willermann alias Naim Fahum, Ludwig Zind alias Muhammad Saleh. La maggior parte di loro abbracciò l’Islam. “Per la verità, l’arrivo di un certo gruppo di ex nazisti al Cairo è precedente alla rivoluzione nasseriana. Già re Faruk si era circondato, tra il 1948 e il 1951, di alcuni esperti tedeschi (…) Giunto al potere Nasser, il reclutamento degli esperti tedeschi si è intensificato ed il senatore americano dell’Alaska, Ernest Gruening, poteva offrirne un lungo elenco, il 3 maggio 1963, nel corso del dibattito sul Medio Oriente” (Angelo Del Boca e Mario Giovana, I “figli del sole”. Mezzo secolo di nazifascismo nel mondo, Feltrinelli, Milano 1965, p. 463 n."
[One wonders; after the Egyptians and Syrians went over to the Soviets for their military supplies, post the war in 1956 and the boycott against Israel, how the senior Soviet officers in the training battalions must have felt. This smattering of Germans of a certain age, blue eyes among the black, in these high offices, must have been slightly disconcerting at first. But the enemy of my enemy is my…what?]
After the war, all kinds of Nazi war criminals were not merely given refuge, but welcomed, and appointed to important positions in the secret police and the military, especially in Egypt and Syria. Alois Brunner [2] may still be alive in Damascus, where he was put to work. In Egypt, a whole group of Nazis, with the unrepentant Johann von Leers [3] the most famous, not only went to work for Nasser's Egypt -- Nasser's brother had published an Arabic translation of "Mein Kampf" in 1939 -- but also found Islam very much to their liking. [Much like the homeless Communists of our own day.] Von Leers found in Islam what he had been seeking for a long time: something not really to replace Nazism, but to allow everything about the Nazis he liked to be continued, under slightly different auspices.
Meanwhile, the Jews of Palestine, who during World War II had been handed out rifles by the British because the latter feared a German invasion and knew that only the Jews could be counted on, [Certainly not the Egyptian Army. They'd been rooting for Rommel as he worked his way along the coast, and stood on the side lines at El Alamein.] After the war they promptly went around seizing all that weaponry, so that the Jews were left without those arms. And during World War II, it was Jewish volunteers who took on, in the Middle East, the most dangerous, usually suicidal missions, in Egypt's Western Desert, in Damascus, and in the oilfields of Iraq, where David Raziel, the likely successor to Jabotinsky [Still hated by the Far Left in America.] in his wing of Zionism, died trying to keep that oil out of German hands.
As everyone knows, much of the Western world has been flagellating itself over its supposed mistreatment of every conceivable "colonized" people. The Arabs are at the top of the list of those who have won the sympathies of the British left, presumably because of British "colonialism" among the Arabs. But what "colonialism" was there? Arabia was never colonized. The British only established a few small garrisons in order to keep the peace -- that's the "Trucial" in "Trucial States” -- and, early on, to suppress the Arab slave trade. [As quiet as its kept.] That's it as far as Arabia went. As for the British as mandatory authorities, that was not colonialism. The British threw out the Turks, and gave the Arabs freedom, and the states, they did nothing to deserve. And in Mandatory Palestine, the British Mandatory authority, with a few exceptions -- Col. Meinertzhagen, who had been Allenby's intelligence officer, was forced to leave Palestine because of his protests against the whipping up of the Arabs to riot and murder, by Col. Bertie Waters-Taylor, and then the famous Captain Orde Wingate [Whose Chindits were jungle fighters against the Japanese in Burma during WWII.], who dared to train the Jewish settlers in techniques of self-defense during the Arab Revolt [1936-1939] , and was, like Colonel Meinertzhagen more than a decade before, promptly sent out of Palestine because of his sympathies.
If this history were better known, and if the Nazi-Arab alliance, which included not only the Mufti of Jerusalem, but the attempt by Sadat, and Nasser, to aid the Nazis during World War II, not to mention all the other pro-Nazi sentiment, in Iraq, in Arabia, indeed everywhere -- better known to people in Great Britain [Though long since forgotten.], and if they knew further just what the British did in Mandatory Palestine, in refusing to abide by the solemn commitments that had been made in order to be given the Mandate, and if they knew just how many hundreds of thousands of Jews might have been saved, had Palestine been open to the Jews just before and after the war, then perhaps that desire to feel guilty would be transferred from the completely wrong object of such a feeling, to the people to whom, in deed, such a feeling is owed. And that might begin to help everyone stop their apologetics and appeasement of Islam, and perhaps even come to see the overwhelming case, legal, historic, and moral, of the Israelis, who are terrible, possibly hopeless, at presenting that case, but that is not the same thing as saying the case is not there to be made.
[1]
BERLIN (AFP) – One of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, Aribert Heim or "Doctor Death", thought to be in his 90s and in South America, actually died in Cairo in 1992, media reports said Wednesday.
Heim was wanted for killing hundreds of concentration camp victims with horrific medical experiments, including performing operations without anaesthetics and injecting petrol directly into their hearts.
German public TV channel ZDF said in a statement that Heim died of bowel cancer in 1992, citing his son and acquaintances in Cairo where he had been living under the assumed identity of Tarek Farid Hussein after converting to Islam.
ZDF and also the New York Times claim they have more than 100 documents including Heim's passport, bank statements, personal letters and medical records that prove without a doubt that Heim lived in a Cairo hotel until his death.
He had been in hiding since 1962. Leading Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre said last July that he believed Heim was still alive and living in either Argentina or Chile.
On Wednesday, Zuroff said that the German TV report sounded authoritative but that he would be seeking further confirmation.
"The report on the death of the 'butcher of Mauthausen' is apparently reliable but we don't for the moment have either a body or a grave...," he said.
"Some people have an interest in substantiating this death, so we are going to check the available documents on the subject."
He added: "Personally, I would be very disappointed if Heim had been able to end his life without being tried, but I do not regret the efforts that we have made to try and have him arrested because through this the world came to know what he was."
Born on June 28, 1914, in Radhersburg, Austria, Heim joined the Nazi party before Germany annexed Austria, when membership of the party was still illegal.
He then became a member of Hitler's elite SS guard in 1940 and [LiebStandarte Adolf Hitler, eventually a regiment and then a division in the Waffen-SS, and a werewolf plague on the Eastern Front.], after stints at camps in Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen in Germany, was posted to the infamous Mauthausen camp in Austria.
It was at Mauthausen that he became known as "Doctor Death" after performing sadistic and grotesque medical experiments. Survivors of Mauthausen allege the father of three cut prisoners open, removing their livers, among other things. His cruelty was such that he has frequently been compared to Josef Mengele, the so-called "Angel of Death" who was a doctor at Auschwitz.
The New York Times -- which carried out the investigation along with ZDF -- said on its website that Heim would decapitate prisoners, boil their heads until only the skull remained and keep them as souvenirs and decorations.
Heim was number two on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's most wanted Nazi list, after Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's main assistant, who is thought to be dead.
Eichmann, one of the leading architects of the extermination of the Jews, was himself hanged in Israel in 1962.
Heim was arrested by US troops in 1945 but was released two-and-a-half years later. He subsequently set himself up as a gynecologist in Germany but fled in 1962 when authorities were poised to arrest him.
There had been numerous reported sightings of him as far afield as South America, Egypt and Spain.
Nazi-hunters thought twice in recent years they were close to pinning him down, once in Spain in 2005 and again last year in a small Chilean town some 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Santiago.
However, Heim's son Ruediger told ZDF in an interview that his father went to ground in 1962 and travelled to Cairo via France, Spain and Morocco.
Here he contracted an incurable form of bowel cancer in the early 1990s and died following several months of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
German police said on Wednesday that the reports by ZDF and the New York Times "correspond with the authorities' most recent information" and that a press release would be released on Thursday.
[2]
Alois Brunner (born 8 April 1912, reports of death contested) is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man."[1] As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Parisfrom June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Nearly 24,000 of them were deported from the Drancy camp. He was condemned to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity. In 1961 and in 1980, Brunner lost an eye and the fingers of his left hand, respectively, as a result of letter bombs sent to him by Mossad.[2]
In 2003, The Guardian described him as "the world's highest-ranking Nazi fugitive believed still alive."[3] Brunner was last reported to be living in Syria, whose government rebuffed international efforts to locate or apprehend him.[4]
[3]
Johann von Leers, alias Omar Amin, (January 25, 1902 – March 5, 1965) was a German professor known for his anti-Jewish polemics. He was one of the most important ideologues of the Third Reich and later served in the Egyptian Information Department. He published for Goebbels, in Peron's Argentina, and for Nasser's Egypt. He converted to Islam, and changed his name to Omar Amin.
